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 Joseph, came near, and spake before Moses, and
before the princes, the chief fathers of the children of Israel: 2 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
unto his daughters. 3 And if they be
married to any of the sons of the other tribes of the children of
Israel, then shall their inheritance be taken from the inheritance of our
fathers, and shall be put to the inheritance of the tribe whereunto they are
received: so shall it be taken from the lot of our inheritance. 4 And when the 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 from the
inheritance of the tribe of our fathers.
Remember this from
chapter 27.
Numbers
27:1 ¶ Then came the daughters of
Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of
Manasseh, of the families of Manasseh the son of Joseph: and these are the
names of his daughters; Mahlah, Noah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Tirzah.
2 And they stood before Moses, and
before Eleazar the priest, and before the princes and all the congregation, by
the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, saying, 3 Our father died in the wilderness, and he was
not in the company of them that gathered themselves together against the LORD
in the company of Korah; but died in his own sin, and had no sons. 4 Why should the name of our father be done
away from among his family, because he hath no son? Give unto us therefore a
possession among the brethren of our father. 5
And Moses brought their cause before the LORD. 6 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 7 The daughters of Zelophehad speak right: thou
shalt surely give them a possession of an inheritance among their father’s
brethren; and thou shalt cause the inheritance of their father to pass unto
them. 8 And thou shalt speak unto the
children of Israel, saying, If a man die, and have no son, then ye shall cause
his inheritance to pass unto his daughter. 9
And if he have no daughter, then ye shall give his inheritance unto his
brethren. 10 And if he have no brethren,
then ye shall give his inheritance unto his father’s brethren. 11 And if his father have no brethren, then ye
shall give his inheritance unto his kinsman that is next to him of his family,
and he shall possess it: and it shall be unto the children of Israel a statute
of judgment, as the LORD commanded Moses.
Keep this in mind and
consider that a woman left her family and became a part of her husband’s family.
They are received into the new family as it states here.
Numbers
36:5 ¶ 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. 6 This is
the thing which the LORD doth command concerning the daughters of Zelophehad,
saying, Let them marry to whom they think best; only to the family of the tribe
of their father shall they marry. 7 So
shall not the inheritance of the children of Israel remove from tribe to tribe:
for every one of the children of Israel shall keep himself to the inheritance
of the tribe of his fathers. 8 And every
daughter, that possesseth an inheritance in any tribe of the children of Israel,
shall be wife unto one of the family of the tribe of her father, that the
children of Israel may enjoy every man the inheritance of his fathers. 9 Neither shall the inheritance remove from one
tribe to another tribe; but every one of the tribes of the children of Israel
shall keep himself to his own inheritance. 10
Even as the LORD commanded Moses, so did the daughters of Zelophehad:
11 For Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and
Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married unto their father’s
brothers’ sons: 12 And they were
married into the families of the sons of Manasseh the son of Joseph, and their
inheritance remained in the tribe of the family of their father. 13 These are the commandments and the
judgments, which the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses unto the children of
Israel in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho.
The solution to this
problem is laid out by Moses. The daughters of Zelophehad can inherit their
father’s property but it must remain in the tribe to whom it belongs.
So, the Book of Numbers
ends. Now we come to Deuteronomy and in those comments on that book I will try
to tie many things together.
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