Day 67-11

V From the Exodus to the Crossing into Canaan - 1462-1422 B.C. ~ cont.

(1462 - 982 480 years of 1 Kings 6:1)

D. From Kadesh-Barnea to crossing of Jordan ~ cont.

5. Settling down in plains of Moab, east of Jordan ~ cont.

k. Command for conquest West of Jordan ~ cont.

(4) Inheritance law reviewed - Numbers 36:1-12

l. Review of Jewish law and history

(1) Introduction - Deuteronomy 1:1-5

(2) Trip reviewed (Deut 1:6-Deut 3)

(3) Exhortation to obey - Deuteronomy 4:1-40

(4) Events at Sinai reviewed - Deuteronomy 5:1-33

{pages 295-299}

This is the thing which the LORD doth command concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, Let them marry to whom they think best; only to the family of the tribe of their father shall they marry.  (Numbers 36:6)

Marry within the tribe.  Or in today's speech, do not be unequally yoked.  Marry only within  your 'tribe' of fellow believers.

Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?  (2 Corinthians 6:14)

Only to the tribe of their Father shall they marry.  That made me smile.  I belong to the tribe of my Father.  I had never thought of it that terminology.  A tribal woman.  LOL!

Woman's names again...wish I'd have saved that website some place handy.

Mahlah - H4244 - From H2470; sickness; Machlah, the name apparently of two Israelitesses.

• H2470 - A primitive root (compare H2342, H2490); properly to be rubbed or worn; hence (figuratively) to be weak, sick, afflicted; or (causatively) to grieve, make sick; also to stroke (in flattering), entreat.

Wow, that wasn't a very complimentary name!

Tirzah - H8656 - From H7521; delightsomeness; Tirtsah, a place in Palestine; also an Israelitess.

• H7521 - A primitive root; to be pleased with; specifically to satisfy a debt.

What a beautiful name!

Hoglah - H2295 - Of uncertain derivation; probably a partridge; Choglah, an Israelitess.

Hmm...Hitchcock Bible Names Dictionary?  His festival or dance.


Milcah - H4435 - A form of H4436; queen; Milcah, the name of a Hebrewess and of an Israelite.

Milcah....this sound familiar...married to?  Nahor, Abraham's brother.  Aha...Genesis 11:29.

Noah - H5270 - From H5128; movement; Noah, an Israelitess.

• H5128 - A primitive root; to waver, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively (as subjoined.

The LORD made not this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive this day.  (Deuteronomy 5:3)

and

These words the LORD spake unto all your assembly in the mount out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice: and he added no more. And he wrote them in two tables of stone, and delivered them unto me.  (Deuteronomy 5:22)

Those verses puzzled me.  Those that are there alive with him is not the same group that came out of Egypt, unless you count them as having been there because they were in their Fathers' loins.  Praying and pondering upon that...there would have been young people under 20 who were there and heard/saw the giving of the Law at Sinai...thus they are accountable.  Another **obvious** that I did not catch.

But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; that thy manservant and thy maidservant may rest as well as thou.  And remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the LORD thy God brought thee out thence through a mighty hand and by a stretched out arm: therefore the LORD thy God commanded thee to keep the sabbath day.  (Deuteronomy 5:14-15)

This has been an ongoing discussion amongst some of the saints.  Is the Sabbath (currently called in our society by its Roman name, Saturday) still a commandment that the Church needs to keep?  Did Father abolish the Sabbath and replace it with corporate worship on Sunday?  Why would 1 law out of the 10 be mitigated, yet the rest stand?  Did Jesus fulfill the Sabbath commandment and thus we are 'resting' in Him?  Doe Scripture teach that the 1st day of the week (Roman word Sunday) is the day that saints are to meet and fellowship?

:-D  Lots of questions...and no firm answers!  Yet.  Okay browsing along and came across this site...truly interesting information.  I liked this one in particular because it uses a timeline function which has 'clickable' time frames to explore further.  Definitely worth bookmarking.

This article expressed a thought I have tumbled about in my mind, the early church 'appeared' to have met more frequently that once a week.  Going from house to house and breaking bread.

Gill's commentary:

Act 2:46  And they continued daily with one accord in the temple,.... Every day they went up to the temple, at the time of prayer, or whenever any religious service was to be performed; this was their constant practice, and in this they agreed:

and breaking bread from house to house; either administering the Lord's supper in private houses, as the Jews kept their passover, sometimes administering it at one house, and sometimes at another; or because their number was so large, that one house could not hold them, they divided themselves into lesser bodies; and some met, and had the ordinance administered to them in one house, and some in another: or this may be understood of their common meals, which they ate together at one another's houses in great love and friendship; for

This article, How are we to keep the Sabbath in today's society? gives another perspective.  I do not know that I agree with the position that Christians are mandated to worship on the 1st day (Sunday).  Which by the reckoning of the Jews would have been Saturday night.  For more information click this link.

This article, written by a former Jewish Sabbath keeper (7th day), has now become a "Sabbath day keeper (1st day).  I appreciated the perspective on this one, not to be legalistic.  I still hold that the 7th day is the Sabbath, while many call the 1st day (Sunday) the Lord's day.  I am not quite sold on calling the 1st day the Lord's day as being Scripturally substantiated...but am willing to research it.  Mainly, because they are ALL HIS days.  :-)

This article, Sunday is NOT the Sabbath, has some interesting information, but it is quite lengthy, I did not manage to muddle through it...skimming as I went.  Remember in whatever you take in, here, or elsewhere, be a Berean.  Check all out by the Word of God.  Because that article referenced the 3rd commandment to keep the Sabbath...I went whhhhaaaatttt!  So a little digging revealed that the Catholic Church appears to have changed the listing.  If you would like an overview it is contained in the article, The Ten Commandments.  Quite an interesting read.