Day 36: Numbers 25-28

Summaries:
Some Israelites slept with Moabite women and worshiped their god, so God tells Moses to publicly execute these people, and Phineas honorably kills two of them, and God pledges his friendship because of the zeal of Phineas (25). God has Moses and Eleazar take another census by ancestral house, and clan and number is listed, and God says the land is to be divided among them by size and by lot (26). Zelophehad dies and has no sons, so laws are given regarding heiresses, such that when there are no sons, a man's heritage may pass to his daughters, or his brothers, or others, so that his heritage lives on. God tells Moses to go up on the mountain and view the land that is for the Israelites, and he will gbe taken up to God, and Moses asks that God would set a worthy man in his place, and God chooses Joshua (27). God gives Moses laws for the Israelites once again regarding how to give sacrifices, for each morning and evening, for the sabbath, for the new moon, for Passover, and for Pentecost (28).

Reflections:
I like to think that Phineas' zeal shone through in the fact that God commanded something and he so readily did it. Mind you, in this case, it was killing those who had done wrong, but none the less, he was quick to do what God had instructed, and that does show nobility.