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Welcome to our group Bible Reading & Theology! Starting in 2025, we are beginning a one-year chronological Bible reading plan together! If you fall behind, that's okay! Simply pick up on the reading for the day, even if you only read just one of the assigned chapters for the day. This will allow us to have better discussions about questions or insights we have into the text. Let's Abide in the Word together!
I was definitely falling behind when you posted this, but I just finished listening to numbers while driving to church this morning, so I guess I'm a little ahead now. 😅
That's always a part of the story that causes questions, especially why it's worded as if God is hardening his heart and then punishing the Egyptians for the hardened hearts. When it's more that God isn't softening his heart as he was when he gave in for a bit and then left Pharoah to his hearts desires. Why didn't God share the story with those details clearly revealed?
I'm jumping a bit ahead. But in the last chapter of numbers, the rule is made that those from each tribe must marry inside their own tribe so the inherited land isn't lost. Starting with a man's multiple daughters, who it says married their cousins to keep the land in the tribe. Because they had no brothers, and thus, they inherited their father's lands.
It just got me thinking that one way to ensure the continued line of a tribe all the way through generations is made easier by this rule, and makes proving that Jesus came from the line of Judah all the way through, is easier. Even though there were people in the line of Jesus who didn't marry or conceive children by women from the line of Judah.