What is the context?
Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Noah marry cousins on their father’s side within Manasseh’s clans. Their inheritance therefore remains within their father’s tribe, and the account says they act as the Lord commanded Moses.
The final verse identifies the commandments given through Moses on the plains of Moab across from Jericho. Numbers ends with the people still preparing to enter the land and with a concrete inheritance question resolved through obedience to the Lord’s instructions.
How is this passage commonly understood?
Wesley reads the marriages as carrying out the preceding ruling. The conclusion keeps the sisters’ inheritance and the tribal allotment together. The book does not end by claiming that entry, settlement, or every later test of faithfulness has already been completed.
What is our position?
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