- In earlier text (chapter 27), TorahRefers to the first five books of the Hebrew Bible, the Tanakh, also called the Five Books of Moses, Pentateuch or the Hebrew equivalent, Humash. This is also called the Written Torah. The term may also refer to teachings that expound on Jewish tradition. Read more legislates inheriting by female children if there is no male descendant. Why is the issue raised again at this point?
- What argument is advanced to justify reopening the matter (Numbers 36:2-4)?
- How is the decision regarding female inheritors now modified by Moses?
- Do the daughters Tzlaphehad retain the inheritance right and, too, the right to choose their mates (Numbers 36:6)?
- But, what is the “limitation” on this right of choice?
- Irrespective of limitation, does text affirm that the woman (and none other) has the prerogative of which husband she will marry (or is the selection by the woman only in these circumstances)?
- Is any objection on the part of the women recorded?
- The book ends with the wilderness experience over, and what is to come?
