Today we begin Numbers Chapter 36. For the Complete Jewish Bible, click here. For the King James version, click here. “Here is what Adonai has ordered concerning the daughters of Tz’lof’chad: ‘Let them be married to whomever they think best, but they must marry only into a family from their father’s tribe.”-Numbers 36:6 Recall in […]

“…because he must stay in his city of refuge until the death of the cohen hagadol. But after the death of the cohen hagadol the killer may return to the land he owns.  These things shall constitute your standard for judgment through all your generations, wherever you live.”-Numbers 35:28-29 From verse 22, we are presented […]

Yesterday, I gave a pretty in-depth explanation of the role of the GO’EL HA ADAHM or the “Blood Redeemer“. I also connected this term to the concept of the “Kinsman Redeemer” and how the function of this person was not just to serve as a “financial savior” who provided needed funds when a piece of […]

“The next-of-kin avenger is to put the murderer to death himself — upon meeting him, he is to put him to death.“-Numbers 35:19 Today we’re going to do a little word study of an important Torah concept introduced to us in verse 19 of Numbers 35. In the Complete Jewish bible, the term used is […]