P. The chapter lays down a law that heiresses may not be married to anyone outside their own tribe. As in ch. 27, the present law is put in a concrete form. In ch. 27 it was ruled that the daughters of Zelophehad might inherit property, in order that the inheritance might not be alienated from the... [ Continue Reading ]
In the year of Jubile, i.e. every fiftieth year, all _purchased_land returned to its original owners, or their descendants. But the law of Jubile would not affect the cases in which land was _inherited_by persons of another tribe. It would, indeed, be inherited by descendants of Zelophehad in the fe... [ Continue Reading ]
In accordance with the law, the five women were married to the sons of their paternal uncles.... [ Continue Reading ]
A subscription appended to the series of priestly laws related to have been given during the time that Israel was in the land of Moab, i.e. between Numbers 22:1 and Numbers 36:12. A similar subscription is appended, in Leviticus 27:34, to the laws given at Sinai. But after that subscription further... [ Continue Reading ]