We are currently studying a quite interesting situation whereby Israel as a nation are about to enter into the Promised Land to conquer it BUT… ….we have two tribes (Reuben and Gad) who are telling Moses they would rather stay in the Transjordan area, a territory that is OUTSIDE of the Promised Land. The reason […]

In yesterday’s post I talked about the Tribes of Reuben and Gad. These were the two tribes who decided against living inside the Promised Land and instead informed Moses they would rather live in the Trans-Jordan (the territory east of the Jordan River). The initial reason they gave Moses was because the super fertile pastureland in […]

Today we begin Numbers Chapter 32. For the Complete Jewish Bible, click here. For the King James version, click here. Okay, in Numbers 32 we encounter a darn interesting and sticky situation. Even though the conquest to take the Promised Land is now underway, not one Israelite soldier has yet to step foot inside Canaanite […]

Following the slaughter of the Midianites, we’re given an inventory of the plunder of livestock as follows: “The booty, over and above the portion which the soldiers took, came to 675,000 sheep, 72,000 cattle, 61,000 donkeys, and 32,000 persons in all, consisting of the women who had never slept with a man.”-Numbers 31:32-35 These figures […]

Adonai said to Moshe, “Take all the booty, both people and animals, you, El‘azar the cohen and the leaders of clans in the community; and divide the booty into two parts: half for the experienced soldiers who went out to battle, and half for the rest of the community.”-Numbers 31:25-27 In the latter half of […]