Numbers 36 - Introduction
_A LAW IS ESTABLISHED, THAT THE DAUGHTERS TO WHOM THE PATERNAL INHERITANCE DESCENDS SHALL NOT MARRY OUT OF THEIR OWN TRIBE, LEST THE POSSESSIONS OF THE TRIBES SHOULD BE MIXED._ _Before Christ 1452._... [ Continue Reading ]
_A LAW IS ESTABLISHED, THAT THE DAUGHTERS TO WHOM THE PATERNAL INHERITANCE DESCENDS SHALL NOT MARRY OUT OF THEIR OWN TRIBE, LEST THE POSSESSIONS OF THE TRIBES SHOULD BE MIXED._ _Before Christ 1452._... [ Continue Reading ]
THE CHIEF FATHERS OF THE FAMILIES OF THE CHILDREN OF GILEAD— On account of the case of the daughters of Zelophehad, mentioned ch. 27: some of the chief heads of that family, foreseeing a great inconvenience which was likely to happen in the marriage of these women, make a new petition to Moses in fu... [ Continue Reading ]
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 divine purpose; nor would the year of jubilee itself, though designed for preserving a perfect distinctio... [ Continue Reading ]
LET THEM MARRY TO WHOM THEY THINK BEST, &C.— The Lord, being pleased to approve by Moses the prudence of this representation, ordered, that the daughters should be permitted to have their choice in marriage among those who were descended from the same stock: only with these two limitations, that the... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEY WERE MARRIED INTO THE FAMILIES OF THE SONS OF MANASSEH— That is, according to the margin of our English Bibles, _some who were of the families of Manasseh,_ from whom several families descended; for they did not marry promiscuously into _any_ of the families of Manasseh, but into their _fat... [ Continue Reading ]
THESE ARE THE COMMANDMENTS AND THE JUDGMENTS— By _commandments,_ we understand the precepts relating to the worship of God delivered in Chapter s xxviii, xxix, 30: By the _judgments,_ the civil ordinances, or the laws of civil policy, respecting the division of the land, _inheritances,_ and the _cit... [ Continue Reading ]