Friday, May 30, 2008

Voice

In Numbers 27 there is an interesting note about a woman's voice.

There must have been lots of cases that went before Moses, but it interesting that this one was written down. Probably because it was pretty unique and it was a legal precident. There was a family that only had girls in it. In the society of the time, having a male heir was pretty important (important to kings in England still many, many years after this- this being fresh in my brian from just finishing reading 'The other Boleyn Girl') and with no male heir, you got no inheritance. And so the sisters asked for an inheritance. And Moses brought the case before the Lord and the Lord said that the sisters were right, that they should get an inheritance. One small step for womankind.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

And then the men get involved. So one step forward, another bunch back!

I really must stop sounding like a cynical feminist! I really am not! ;-)