Numbers 36:9
“Every Israelite is responsible for making sure the inheritance stays within the ancestral tribe. No inheritance-land may be passed from tribe to tribe; each tribe of the People of Israel must hold tight to its own land.”
“No grant of land may pass from one tribe to another, each tribe of Israel must keep its allotted portion of land.”
The context is of Zelophehad’s daughters. They had no brothers and asked that their ancestral land be given to them. If they married outside the tribe, tribal leaders didn’t want tribal inheritance to pass to another tribe. God responded and said they must marry within the tribe. The land of promise was precious. It was as wide open for settlement as the cross is to everyone. It flowed with nourishment for physical bodies just as the Spirit nourishes us. It was the place of rest as Christ is our rest. The land was precious because it pointed to the most precious thing, living with God through Christ.
Amen!