_A.M. 2552. B.C. 1452._ An inconvenience if heiresses should marry into another tribe, Numbers 36:1. An appointment that they should marry in their own tribe, Numbers 36:5. Zelophehad's daughters marry their cousins, Numbers 36:10. The conclusion, Numbers 36:13.... [ Continue Reading ]
_The chief fathers of the families_, &c. We read before of a provision made for the family of the heiresses of Zelophehad, a branch of the tribe of Manasseh, chap. 27.; and though Moses had secured them a distinct inheritance, yet some of the chief heads of that family, foreseeing that a great incon... [ Continue Reading ]
_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 for this inconvenience, since these inheritances would descend, at the jubilee, by the common right... [ Continue Reading ]
_Only to the family_ They were not confined to any particular person, but might have their choice among such as solicited their consent, who were descended from the same stock. But they were restrained from marrying men of another tribe or of another family of the same tribe; for God would have the... [ Continue Reading ]
_The inheritance of his fathers_ This law was not general, to forbid every woman to marry into another tribe, as may be reasonably concluded from the practice of so many patriarchs, kings, priests, and other holy men, who have married women of other tribes, yea, sometimes of other nations; but restr... [ Continue Reading ]