[Teachldsseminary] OT story for Numbers---women

[Mark & Carolyn Jefferson]

Do you know which of the Time Out For Women provided this insight?

On Thursday, December 6, 2007, at 02:45  PM, Elizabeth Neipp wrote:

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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Elizabeth Neipp" <neipps at lds.net>
> To: <neipps at mail.lds.net>; "Kathleen Pack"
> <she-who-must-be-obeyed at comcast.net>; "Claudia Laugenour"
> <claugenour at yahoo.com>; "Pam Calvert" <TREVLAC12 at aol.com>; "Lynn  
> Anderson"
> <lynn at newlooksystems.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2007 7:40 PM
> Subject: Fw: OT story for Numbers
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>> I got this from my daughter, Kyra, who went to a Time Out For Women in
>> Boston a few weeks ago.  We'll be in Numbers soon.   Here is her  
>> email to
>> me.....
>>
>> _______________________
>>
>> Here is one thing I learned, very OT academic, that I didn't know,  
>> thought
>> was neat:
>>
>> The Story of Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah. 5 women named  
>> in
>> the OT.
>> -Numbers 27: 1-11.
>> -they were sisters, daughters of Zelophehead, of the tribe of Manasseh
>> (Joseph).
>> -born in the wilderness, women of great faith, who knew they were
>> daughters of God.
>> -they have no brothers, and so when father dies, they are without  
>> means.
>> Moses
>> had handed out inheritancees to Israel, but the portions were, of  
>> course,
>> male
>> inherited.
>> -in v. 2-4 they go to Moses and basically say, they donn't think the  
>> Lord
>> loves
>> his daughters less than his sons, and as daughters of God, let them
>> inherit.
>> -Moses says he'll go to the Lord with the question (v 5)
>> -v6-7 Lord says “the daughters of Zelophehad speak right”
>> -the law changes, and remained changed, which is why in Jewish culture
>> women
>> could inherit if there were no men. This is why you have widows with
>> wealth etc
>> in the rest of the bible.
>> -Probably the oldest recorded “equal rights” case. :)
>> -The speaker then showed how hundreds of years later, and throughout  
>> the
>> new
>> testament the act of these women (acting on understanding who they  
>> were in
>> an
>> eternal sense) impacted history. You can trace several stories of  
>> women of
>> property caring for or funding the prophets and Paul and the apostles  
>> in
>> their
>> missionary work.
>> -The speaker tied on the bow reminding us that understanding we are
>> daughters of
>> God, having a testimony of that does make a difference, and has power  
>> to
>> change
>> the world for good.
>>
>>
>> I loved it. I had never noticed that story before!
>>
>> Incidentally, these 5 women marry Manasseh cousins later on and live
>> happily
>> ever after or something..:)
>>
>>
>> Kyra
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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