Chapter Summary

Regulations concerning inheritance.

Discussion Questions for Numbers, Chapter 36

1. How would loosing land inheritance impact the people of Israel? How does this shape how we understand the concerns they presented to Moses?
2. The leaders had concerns regarding Israel’s inheritance being given to another tribe if Zelophehad's daughter’s married outside of their own tribe. How does The Lord’s response promote balance, promise, and free will?
3. What does the response of Zelophehad's daughters teach us about obedience?
4. How would this situation have been handled in today’s context? How can we apply the themes of honor and humility we see in this chapter in our lives today?
5. What kind of connection do we see in this chapter when it comes to personal rights as well as rights for the people as a whole? How does this situation with Zelophehad's daughters show us God’s intentions for honoring both the person and the community?
6. How does this chapter teach us about the value of generational history and legacy? What value do you find in having something special passed down for generations? Does your family have anything that has been passed down for generations?
7. What can we learn from Moses’s role of leadership in this chapter? How can we use this to teach us how to engage in healthy conversation even when topics may be tricky or controversial?
8. Whenever the people of Israel had a question, request, or concern, Moses’s first response was to go to The Lord about it? How can we do the same? What impact would this have in the way you would respond to someone? When in your life have you seen sitting with God first have a positive impact on a situation?
9. Why is there a crossover between faith in God and laws in that day? How can we understand the value of having faith in God being the foundation for laws that are formed today?
10. Numbers 36:13, “These are the commandments and the rules that the LORD commanded through Moses to the people of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.” (ESV) Why do you think the chapters in Numbers often end this way? What would this closer establish to the people? How would you put this closing into your own words to apply to your own life today?

Key Words/Phrase

Inheritances, v. 2.

Characters

God, Moses, heads of families, Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah, Noah.

Strong Verse(s)

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