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Title: The Bible and its story..
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1870-1942 Brewer, Julius August, 1877-1953, joint ed
Subjects: Bible
Publisher: New York, F. R. Niglutsch
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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with the tribes of Reuben andGad. These tribes had a very great multitude of cattle,and the lands east of Jordan were pasture lands, justsuited for vast herds to wander over. Therefore thechiefs of Reuben and Gad decided that they did not carefor a share of the promised land, they were well con-tent to stay in this region already conquered. With muchhesitation they suggested this to Moses. At first the servant of God was horrified, for hethought this meant another rebellion and disobedienceto God; but the chiefs assured him they had no thoughtof disobedience and no fear of following him. Theyoffered to go themselves with their fighting men acrossJordan, in fact to lead the way. Only they would leavetheir families and possessions behind; and when Palestinewas conquered they would return to this region which sodelighted them. In the end Moses consented to thisarrangement. From this, however, it came to pass, inlater years, that these tribes became separated from therace of Israel. 11-91
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T ®i)e 2^augl)ter£S of Helopfjefjab ^^ This is the thing xchich the Lord doth command con-cerning the daughters of Zelophehad.—Num., 36, 6. THE book of Numbers closes as it opens with anumbering of the men of Israel. This secondcount was taken as a preparation for enteringthe promised land, and it yielded as large a total as thatformer numbering at Sinai. Yet God had made good Histhreat, for not one of the men of the earlier counting wasnow left alive to enter Palestine, save only Joshua andCaleb, who had been promised entry. All the others hadperished in the wilderness and the wars and the plagues.The present men had been all unborn, or youths undertwenty, at the time of the great disobedience. At this ceremony a legal point of great importance inIsrael arose. The lands of Palestine were to be dividedamong the conquerors. Among the Hebrews propertyhad hitherto been held only by males; women merelydwelled with their families. Now it happened that in onefamily, that of Zelophehad,

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