NUMBERS CHAPTER 36 The inconvenience of daughters inheriting is
remedied by a general command that all such marry in the tribe of
their fathers, to which of them they shall think best, NUMBERS 36:1.
They obey, NUMBERS 36:10. These commands God gave by Moses to Israel
in the plains of Moab, NUMBERS 3... [ Continue Reading ]
OUR BROTHER, i.e. our kinsman, one of our tribe, JOSHUA 17:2,3.... [ Continue Reading ]
For their inheritance will pass to their children, who will be of
another tribe by their father's side, which alone is considered in
this place.... [ Continue Reading ]
Which God appointed principally for this end, to preserve the
inheritance in the hands of the tribes and families to which they were
first given.... [ Continue Reading ]
Their plea is just and reasonable. God did not take particular care
about every occurrence that happened, or might happen, but left divers
things to be found out by human prudence, which being his own gift, it
was meet there should be opportunities left for the exercise of it;
and God thought fit to... [ Continue Reading ]
They seem hereby to be confined not only to the same tribe, trot also
to the family of their tribe, as appears from the reason of the law,
for God would have the inheritance of families as well as tribes kept
entire and unmixed; and this was one reason of that law of marrying
the brother's wife, DEU... [ Continue Reading ]
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By which clause it seems that this law was not general to forbid every
woman to marry into another tribe, (as may be reasonably concluded
from the practice of so many patriarchs, kings, priests, and other
holy men, who have married women of other tribes, yea, sometimes of
other nations, which it is... [ Continue Reading ]
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It is certain whether _brothers_ or _sons_ be taken strictly and
properly, or more large, as those words are oft used in Scripture.... [ Continue Reading ]
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