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The daughters of Zelophehad had obtained an ordinance Numbers 28:6
which permitted the daughters of an Israelite dying without male issue
to inherit their father’s property. The chiefs of the Machirit...
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12. THE SECURITY OF THE INHERITANCE
CHAPTER 36
_ 1. The applicants and their statement (Numbers 36:1)_
2. The response of Moses (Numbers 36:5)
3. The epilogue (Numbers 36:13)
The chapter explai
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HEIRESSES REQUIRED TO MARRY WITHIN THEIR OWN TRIBE. This law
supplements the enactment in Numbers 27:1, which allowed daughters to
inherit their father's property, but still left open the possibility...
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JUBILE. Compare Leviticus 25....
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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 _inherite...
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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...
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AND WHEN THE JUBILEE—SHALL BE— The reason of the complaint was,
that if heiresses should marry into other tribes, the paternal
inheritance would thus be alienated from the tribe, contrary to the
divin...
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G. THE MARRIAGE OF HEIRESSES (NUMBERS 36)
TEXT
Numbers 36:1. And the chief fathers of the families of the children of
Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of the
sons of Jo...
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_AND THEY SAID, THE LORD COMMANDED MY LORD TO GIVE THE LAND FOR AN
INHERITANCE BY LOT TO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL: AND MY LORD WAS
COMMANDED BY THE LORD TO GIVE THE INHERITANCE OF ZELOPHEHAD OUR
BROTHER...
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THE LAW REGARDING HEIRESSES
According to Numbers 27:1 it was decided that, if a man left no sons,
his daughters might inherit his property. But if the daughters married
into another tribe, the propert...
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THE OLD TESTAMENT BOOK OF NUMBERS
IN THE DESERT
NUMBERS
_MARION ADAMS_
CHAPTER 36
THE LAWS ABOUT MARRIED WOMEN AND LAND – NUMBERS 36:1-13
V1 The leaders of the families in Gilead’s *clan
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AND WHEN THE JUBILE OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL SHALL BE. — Up to the
year of jubile it was possible that the inheritance might revert to
the tribe of Manasseh, either by purchase, or as the result of t...
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וְ אִם ־יִהְיֶ֣ה הַ יֹּבֵל֮ לִ בְנֵ֣י
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THE CITIES OF REFUGE
Numbers 35:1; Numbers 36:1
1. THE INHERITANCE OF THE LEVITES
The order relating to the Levitical cities may be said to describe an
ideal settlement. We have, at all events, no...
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The question of the inheritance of women, which had already occurred
through the application of the daughters of Zelophehad, came up once
more, raised by the heads of the tribes. It was possible that...
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And when the (c) jubile of the children of Israel shall be, then shall
their inheritance be put unto the inheritance of the tribe whereunto
they are received: so shall their inheritance be taken away...
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_That is, an explanation of the jubilee, added by St. Jerome, who
gives the sense of the Hebrew, though not the very words. --- Lots.
Hebrew, "when the jubilee of the children of Israel is come, then...
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The Jubilee year was the year of release, when every man's inheritance
of land was to be restored to its original owner. See Leviticus 25:10....
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The successes given to the children of Israel alarmed some of their
neighbours, more particularly Moab; and this gives occasion for a
striking episode in the history which brought to issue as solemn a...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 34, 35, AND 36.
Finally, God takes care of His people in all respects; He marks the
limits of the country they were to enjoy. He settles the taking
possessio...
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AND WHEN THE JUBILEE OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL SHALL BE,.... At which
time inheritances were to be restored to the original proprietors of
them; yet this would be of no service in the present case, bu...
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_When the jubilee shall be_, &c. The jubilee itself, they remonstrate,
though designed, among other purposes, to preserve a perfect
distinction of estates, tribes, and families, would afford no remedy...
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1 The inconuenience of the inheritance of daughters,
5 is remedied by marying in their owne tribes,
7 lest the inheritance should be remoued from the tribe.
10 The daughters of Zelophehad marrie th...
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And when the jubilee of the children of Israel shall be, then shall
their inheritance, that of Zeiophehad's daughters, BE PUT UNTO THE
INHERITANCE OF THE TRIBE WHEREUNTO THEY ARE RECEIVED, by the fact...
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THE OBJECTION RAISED...
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MARRIAGE OF FEMALE HEIRS
(vs.1-13)
The daughters of Zelophehad had before been assured of inheriting the
possession of their father who had died. The problem remained for his
tribe (Manasseh) as to w...
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1-4 The heads of the tribe of Manasseh represent the evil which might
follow, if the daughters of Zelophehad should marry into any other
tribes. They sought to preserve the Divine appointment of
inher...
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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....
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*Chapter 36 has been referred to in our meditation on
C. H. M....
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CHAPTER 36 PROBLEMS OF INHERITANCE.
7). THE MANASSITE LEADERS' CONCERN ABOUT LOSING THE LAND IF WOMEN
INHERIT.
There are two emphases in this last chapter. The first is on the
question of the certain...
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CONTENTS: Regulations concerning inheritance.
CHARACTERS: God, Moses, heads of families, Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah,
Milcah, Noah.
CONCLUSION: It is the wisdom of those who have estates in this world
to...
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Numbers 36:8. _Every daughter that possesseth an inheritance, shall be
wife to one of the family of the tribe of her father._ An heiress was
obliged to marry in her own tribe; but other women might ma...
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_Let them marry to whom they think best; only to the family of the
tribe of their father shall they marry._
THE LAW FOR THE MARRIAGE OF HEIRESSES
I. The case stated (Numbers 36:1). These proceedings...
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NUMBERS—NOTE ON NUMBERS 36:1__ The jubilee occurred every 50 years.
During that time, land that had been sold was to return to its
original owner (Leviticus 25:10). This did not apply to lan
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THE LAW FOR THE MARRIAGE OF HEIRESSES
(_Numbers 36:1_)
Let us notice—
I. THE CASE STATED.
“And the chief fathers of the families of the children of Gilead,
the son of Machir,” &c. (Numbers 36:1). T...
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EXPOSITION
THE MARRIAGE OF HEIRESSES (Numbers 36:1).
NUMBERS 36:1
THE CHIEF FATHERS. The same phrase is more correctly translated in...
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Now in chapter thirty-six you remember this ERA movement. These
daughters of Zelophehad, the guy had seven daughters, no sons. And
they said, "Hey, it isn't fair that we don't get an inheritance in th...
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Isaiah 61:2; Leviticus 25:10; Leviticus 25:23; Luke 4:18; Luke 4:19...