Number 27-30

Women's Rights - Israel's first proponents . . .
I never knew this story was in the Bible, but it's interesting.

Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah and Tirzah.

These were the daughters of Zelophehad. After Zelophehad had died (from his own sins, not because he was one of Korah's followers who were destroyed when they banded against the Lord), his name was removed from the clan. The daughters (who had no brothers) were upset.

They approached Moses.

"Why should our father's name disappear from his clan because he had no son? Give us property among our father's relatives."

Moses consulted God, who agreed with the women.  He commanded Moses to instruct the Israelites of a new law, which basically gave property to the daughters if there were no son.

Joshua Appointed
God brought Moses up to the mountain to show him the promised land. Of course, neither Moses nor Aaron could not have this land because of their unwillingness to obey God by honoring Him as holy before the Israelites (at the waters of Meribah Kadesh, in the Desert of Zin).

Moses asked God to provide Israel with a leader, and God provided Joshua, son of Nun.

Offerings and Feasts
God then gave Moses instructions on what kinds of offerings the Israelite should bring, at what time, and also what kinds of feasts to celebrate (and why).

Most of the ones below are accompanied by grain offerings and drink offerings as well

Daily Offering = 2 lambs without defect 
Sabbath Offering = 2 lambs without defect 
Monthly Offering = 2 young bulls, 1 ram, 7 young lambs
Passover = eat unleavened bread and do no work on the first day; 2 young bulls, 1 ram, 7 young lambs
Feast of Week = 2 young bulls, 1 ram, 7 young lambs (hold regular assembly and do no work)
Feast of Trumpets =  one young bull, one ram and seven male lambs a year old, all without defect
Day of Atonement = deny yourself and do no work; one young bull, one ram and seven male lambs a year old, all without defect; 
Feast of the Tabernacles = A fifteen day feast where each day they make an offering. As the days progress, the number of bulls reduces by one, although the number of rams and lambs remains constant; thirteen young bulls, two rams and fourteen male lambs a year old, all without defect.


Vow
God then gave instructions regarding vows. Essentially, if a woman makes a vow but either her father (if she is living at home) or her husband (if she is married), disagrees with the vow and speaks up, she is not bound by it. If they are silent, then she is bound by the vow. Widows and divorced women are bound by their vows.