. The Bible and its . ting 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 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, all the
. The Bible and its . ting 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 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, all the males had perished,only his daughters remained. These came and appealedto Moses, saying that their father had been a good man andthat his death should not be allowed to deprive them oftheir home and inheritance. So Moses decreed that insuch cases the women should receive their fathers shareof all Israels possessions, but must marry within theirown tribe. With this important piece of legislation, theBook of Numbers ends. 11-92. li-* rv ii^^ lhm^t% /JR3# .t:i >fT f(h ;^^ BY MARTIN DE VOS, A FLEMISH PAINTER, DIED 1603. THE ORIGINAL IS IN THE ROYAL MUSEUM AT THE HAGUE. And Moses called all Israel, and said unto them. Hear,O Israel, the statutes and fudgmentsy—Deut., 5, 1. THE Book of Deuteronomy tells of the last month ofthe life of Moses, With his people gatheredaround him there in the valley of the Jordan,everything was in readiness for the triumphal entry intoPalestine. But God had warned Moses that because ofthe one time when he had failed in faith, he should him-self be shut out from the promised land. Hence Mosesnow prepared himself for death. He gave his last days to preaching to his people. Inthis final month he delivered to them three great addresses,marvels of oratory, recorded in this remarkable book ofDeuteronomy, though perhaps in their present form theywere not written down until centuries after Moses these orations Moses reminded the
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