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Selected Verse: Numbers 36:5 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Nu 36:5 |
Strong Concordance |
And Moses [04872] commanded [06680] the children [01121] of Israel [03478] according to the word [06310] of the LORD [03068], saying [0559], The tribe [04294] of the sons [01121] of Joseph [03130] hath said [01696] well. |
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King James |
And Moses commanded the children of Israel according to the word of the LORD, saying, The tribe of the sons of Joseph hath said well. |
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| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| Moses commanded the children of Israel according to the word of the Lord--The plea appeared just and reasonable; and, accordingly an enactment was made by which the daughters of Zelophehad, while left to the free choice of their husbands, were restricted to marry not only within their own tribe, but within the family of their father's tribe--that is, one of their cousins. This restriction, however, was imposed only on those who were heiresses. The law was not applicable to daughters in different circumstances (Ch1 23:22) --for they might marry into another tribe; but if they did so, they were liable to forfeit their patrimonial inheritance, which, on the death of their father or brothers, went to the nearest of the family kinsmen. Here was an instance of progressive legislation (see also Exo 18:27) in Israel, the enactments made being suggested by circumstances. But it is deserving of special notice that those additions to, or modifications of, the law were confined to civil affairs; while the slightest change was inadmissible in the laws relating to worship or the maintenance of religion. |
| Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
| Moses declared that what they had affirmed was right (כּן), and then, by command of Jehovah, he told the daughters of Zelophehad that they might marry whoever pleased them (the suffix ־הם, attached to בּעיני, for ־הן, as in Exo 1:21; Gen 31:9, etc.), but that he must belong to the family of their father's tribe, that is to say, must be a Manassite. For (Num 36:7) the inheritance was not to turn away the Israelites from one tribe to another (not to be transferred from one to another), but every Israelite was to keep to the inheritance of his father's tribe, and no one was to enter upon the possession of another tribe by marrying an heiress belonging to that tribe. This is afterwards extended, in Num 36:8 and Num 36:9, into a general law for every heiress in Israel. |
27 And Moses [04872] let his father in law [02859] depart [07971]; and he went [03212] his way into his own land [0776].
22 And Eleazar [0499] died [04191], and had no sons [01121], but daughters [01323]: and their brethren [0251] the sons [01121] of Kish [07027] took [05375] them.
9 Neither shall the inheritance [05159] remove [05437] from one tribe [04294] to another [0312] tribe [04294]; but every one [0376] of the tribes [04294] of the children [01121] of Israel [03478] shall keep [01692] himself to his own inheritance [05159].
8 And every daughter [01323], that possesseth [03423] an inheritance [05159] in any tribe [04294] of the children [01121] of Israel [03478], shall be wife [0802] unto one [0259] of the family [04940] of the tribe [04294] of her father [01], that the children [01121] of Israel [03478] may enjoy [03423] every man [0376] the inheritance [05159] of his fathers [01].
7 So shall not the inheritance [05159] of the children [01121] of Israel [03478] remove [05437] from tribe [04294] to tribe [04294]: for every one [0376] of the children [01121] of Israel [03478] shall keep [01692] himself to the inheritance [05159] of the tribe [04294] of his fathers [01].
9 Thus God [0430] hath taken away [05337] the cattle [04735] of your father [01], and given [05414] them to me.
21 And it came to pass, because the midwives [03205] feared [03372] God [0430], that he made [06213] them houses [01004].