Numbers 36
Numbers 36:1 The heads of the fathers’ houses of the clan of the people of Gilead the son of Machir, son of Manasseh, from the clans of the people of Joseph, came near and spoke at the face of Moses and in the sight of the leaders, the heads of the fathers’ houses of the people of Israel.
Numbers 36:2 They said, “Yahveh commanded my lord to give the land for inheritance by lot to the people of Israel, and Yahveh commanded my lord to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother to his daughters.
Numbers 36:3 But if they are married to any of the sons of the other tribes of the people of Israel, then their inheritance will be taken from the inheritance of our fathers and added to the inheritance of the tribe into which they marry. So, it will be taken away from the lot of our inheritance.
Numbers 36:4 And when the liberation of the people of Israel comes, then their inheritance will be added to the inheritance of the tribe into which they marry, and their inheritance will be taken from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers.”
Numbers 36:5 Moses commanded the people of Israel according to Yahveh’s word, and he said, “The tribe of the people of Joseph is right.
Numbers 36:6 This is what Yahveh commands concerning the daughters of Zelophehad: ‘Let them marry whom they think best; only they will marry within the clan of their father’s tribe.
Numbers 36:7 The inheritance of the people of Israel will not be transferred from one tribe to another because every one of the people of Israel will hold on to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.
Numbers 36:8 And every daughter who possesses an inheritance in any tribe of the people of Israel will be wife to one from the clan in the tribe of her father, so that every one of the people of Israel may possess the inheritance of his fathers.
Numbers 36:9 So no inheritance will be transferred from one tribe to another because each of the tribes of the people of Israel will hold on to its inheritance.'”
Numbers 36:10 The daughters of Zelophehad did as Yahveh commanded Moses,
Numbers 36:11 for Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married to sons of their father’s brothers.
Numbers 36:12 They were married into the clans of the people of Manasseh, the son of Joseph, and their inheritance remained in the tribe of their father’s clan.
Numbers 36:13 These are the commandments and the rules that Yahveh commanded through Moses to the people of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho. Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.
Numbers 36 quotes:
“These are the commandments and the judgments,etc. The distinction between these two terms is probably that between precepts relating to worship , and precepts relating to civil ordinances, both which classes we find in the preceding chapters, from ch . 26 to1 ch . 36.”
Bush, George. Notes Critical and Practical on the Book of Numbers. New York: [publisher not identified], 1858. p. 475.
“The particular direction which was given in the case of the daughters of Zelophehad is extended in these verses into a general and permanent law that no heiress in Israel should marry out of her father’s tribe, in order that the inheritance might not be transferred from one tribe to another, and thus, in process of time, the division of the land amongst the tribes, which was made under Divine direction , be materially changed.”
Ellicott, C. J. The Fourth Book of Moses, Called Numbers. London: Cassell & Co, 1850. p. 221.
“This closing section of (he book of Numbers may seem in the eyes of modern critics, as a mere unimportant notice, or incident; but it forms, viewed in its typical tendency, and according to the character of the Book of Numbers, a proper and fitting completion of the organization of the people of God, the hosts of Jehovah. Under the form of an occasional and special law, it establishes the typical perpetuity of the tribes of Israel and their inheritance in Canaan. The essential elements have already been considered in the comment upon chap, xxvii. The conditional gift of Canaan to Israel for all time is here presupposed. The consequence of this grant was the division of the land among the particular tribes by lot. Jehovah gave to each tribe its inheritance by lot. And as the inheritance must remain in its integrity, so also must the tribe; and indeed as the tribe, so also the individual family and the individual household, as the ordinance with respect to the levirate marriage, and the year of jubilee, clearly prove.”
Lange, Johann Peter, and Samuel T. Lowrie. Numbers: Or, the Fourth Book of Moses. New York: C. Scribner, 1899. p. 191.
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