Read Numbers 32:1-42 at Bible Gateway.
The Teaching Tools of Scripture
Genesis 1:1-2:3, The Teaching Tools of Scripture, part one and part two
Genesis 1:1-6:8, Finding the Topic Themes of Scripture
Hebrew Paragraphs
32:1-4 {s} East side of the Jordan is a land for livestock
32:5-15 {s} Reuben and Gad’s request to inherit the east side
32:16-19 {p} Reuben and Gad’s vow to cross over to help Israel inherit
32:20-42 {p} Reuben, Gad, half Manasseh inherit east of the Jordan
Strong Themes
32:1-19 {s+s+p} Reuben and Gad desire to inherit the east side of the Jordan
Numbers 32:1-42 Chiastic Structure
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Theme of the parashah
Reuben, Gad, and half Manasseh desire and inherit east of the Jordan.
Finding Messiah in Triennial Umiqneh rav
The Num 32:1-42 Chiastic Structure above reveals Messiah Yeshua, in the central axis focusing on the children of Israel receiving their inheritance.
The abstract concept of “inheritance” in the Hebrew is from נחל nachal, Strong’s H5157, a primary verb meaning, “to receive an inheritance.” The ancient pictographs are nun + chet + lamed.
nun ן ,נ = the seed, thus continue, heir, son
chet ח = the wall, thus outside, divide, half
lamed ל = the shepherd’s staff, thus teach, yoke, to, bind
The parable being told by the Hebrew Root Words is of the heir (nun) receiving what has been divided (chet) to him by his father (lamed).
YHVH is the Father who first divided to Abram the Land for his inheritance.
And YHVH said to Abram, after Lot was separated from him, “Lift up now your eyes, and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward; for all the land which you see, to you will I give it, and to your seed for ever. And I will make your seed as the dust of the earth; so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall your seed also be numbered. Arise, walk through the land in its length and in its breadth; for I will give it to you.” Gen 13:14-17
And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised, that he might be the father of all those who believe, though they are uncircumcised—that righteousness might be imputed unto them also—and the father of circumcision to those who not of the circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of the faith of our father Abraham, which he had being yet uncircumcised. For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the Law, but through the righteousness of faith. Rom 4:11-13
The Greek for “world” is kosmos, the orderly arrangement of the host of heaven. The translators of the Septuagint used kosmos to translate the Hebrew צבא tsawba, meaning host (of heaven).
Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. Gen 2:1
Abraham was not only promised the Land, but heaven and earth! It was that promise which Yeshua, the Promised Seed, obtained through inheritance.
God, who at sundry times and in diverse ways spoke in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, has in these last days spoken unto us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things, by whom also He made the worlds; who being the brightness of His glory, and the express image of His person, and upholding all things by the word of His power, when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high, being made so much better than the angels, as He has by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they. Heb 1:1-4
And through Him, the inheritance was given to the children.
And if you are Messiah’s, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise. Gal 3:29
Additional readings for this parashah
Psa 117 (my notes) | Jer 2 (my notes) | Jam 2 (my notes)
Studies in Triennial Umiqneh rav
Numbers 32, Bible for Beginners
Numbers 30:1-32:42, Chiastic structure, and YHVH’s just judgment
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