When Moses is faced with a request or a question, his response, as ours should be, is to bring the cause before Jehovah. Jehovah alone is trustworthy to give the answer we need. No human reasoning can give us this. We do well to be humble before the Lord our God and express our need of Him.

The daughters of Zelophehad, whose father had no sons, request to have a possession in the midst of the brethren of their father, Moses enquires of God and God replies:

"Rightly are the daughters of Zelophehad speaking: thou dost certainly give them a possession of an inheritance in the midst of their father's brethren" and He further establishes rules of inheritance which we see working out much later in Boaz who redeemed the inheritance of Naomi's husband Ebimelech, as soon as a closer inheritor had decided not to redeem it himself.

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