_ 7 Ra LT ) hog wig the daughter of Levi, whom her mother g bare to Levi + Why ſhould che INTE, of our father wp. 7 "5 oF - $ { Hel Ie. E 4 d be b uns Meram. Aofodand Moſes | 2vay e from among his family, becaufe he hath no fon ? inijhud, | yy, 16. / mr P o'e3, | give unto us therefore a poſleffion f among the brethren Jolemal and Miriam their ſiſter. ; of our farher | g To wit, Levi's wife, which muſt neceſſarily be underſtood. 5 Pins will Bi if it be not preſerved by an inheritance given to 60 And unto Aaron was born Nadab and Abihu, us in his name and for his ſake. Hence ſome gather, that the firſt bt. Fleazar and Ithamar. : : Son of each of theſe heireſſes was called by their fathers name, by Lev: 10; 61 And * Nadab and Abihu dicd, when they offered | vertue of that law Denr: 25: 6: whereby the brothers firſt ſon was | 2: Ch:3:4: Soance fire before the LORD. to bear the name of his elder brother, whoſe Widow he married. | « Chron: : 5 EEC: hes "ers Geet i hem. w f In the Jand of Canaan upon the diviſion of it, which, though not | 24: 2: 2 And tholc tna , IC | yer conquered, they concluded would certainly be ſo, and thereby |
twenty and three thouſand 6, all males from a month | gave glory to God by believing: old and upward z:for they were not numbred among the | 5 And Moſes broughttheircauſe before the LORD g. children of Iſrae}, —_ — Sad inheritance £ _ e. ) Into oy CO where —_— — np" to ſpeak | . | : w1th MoJer Upon OCCailons, Exoa; 25; 22: Numb; 7: 89. For 1t was pq them among MEETS 05 Lach an hard caſe, and chou i : "HRS . , ANC gh their plea ſeemed reaſonable, yer Meſes, —_— {any — for => Nemo ag mn Se ———— modeſty, that he would nor | 3mm it : BE ; 8: intelf without Gods particular dire&ion.
63 Thele are they that were numbred by Moſes rd | © 5 Arg the LORD fpake unto Moſes, ſaying, ' Exc Eleazar the prieſt, gg f 7-8 2n04, 1 ay of Ifracl | - The daughters of Zelophehad ſpeak right : thou 28.30 in the plains of Moab, by Jordan rr Jericho. | ſhat ſurely give them 5 a polſleflion of an inheritance
64 But among theſe there was not a man of them
whom Moſes and Aaron the prieſtnumbred, when they among their fathers brethren, and thou ſhalt cauſe the
, . 6 1-7 | inhericance of their fathers z to paſs unto them. * Chap: riumbred the children of Ifrae} in the wilderneſs of Sinai. h In Hebrew it 1s of the maſculine gender, to ſhew that women
74:28, 29: 6F For the LORD had faid of them, They * ſhall Þ in this caſe ſhould enjoy the mans priviledge, and that the heavenly x Cor: 10: ſurely die in the wilderneſs: and there was not left a Ws, when this was a Type, did belong no leſs to women 5, 6. man of them z, ſave Caleb the ſon of Jephunneh, and | 5279 men, Go: 3528. 3 (5. e. ) Which belonged to their fathers,
Joſhua the ſon of Nun in caſe they had lived. i To wit, of thoſe who then murmured and rebelled againſt God, bs And thou ſhalt ſpeak unto the children of Iſrael,
as plainly appears both becauſe this threatning and puniſhment is laying, If a4 man die, and have no ſon, then ye ihall confined to thoſe tranſgreſſors, and becauſe otherwiſe this had not cauſe his inkeritance to paſs unto kis daughter.
been true, for ofthoſe that were then numbred there were now lefr | 9 And if he have no daughter, then ye ſball give his Eleazar and- Ithamar, and poſſibly many of the Levites, and ſome | inheritance unto his brethren
others, who being not guilty of that fin did not partake of thej : : judgment. ary per Joſhua are mentioned here, as alſo Numb. *ug 10 And if he have no brethren &, then ye ſhall -
not by way of Exception, as if theſe were murinurers, which Is his inheritance unto his fathers brethren. utterly denied, Numb. 14. 24. but by way of oppoſition, to ſignify k Nor ſiſters, as appears from weyſe 8. -
_ they, _ _ a+ dent ee _— me _ panions of | I1 And if his tacher have no brethren, then ye ſhall them who were the chief authors and ringleaders of that mutin 1 i 1 - * 1,» x yet they kepr themſelves from their fin, and therefore God "de give his inheritance unto his kinſmany that is next to
them from their plague and deſtruRtion, as allo he did ſome others him of his family » and he (hall poſſeſs ic : and it ſhall be for the ſame reaſon. | unto the children of Iſrael a ſtatute of judgment 7, as C H A P. XXVII the LORD commanded Moſes,
A ſtarite or rule, by which the Maziſtrate ſhall civej The Law of inheritance : for Daughters on defef of Sous : and on defef of | in ſuch caſes. 4 agiſtrate ſhall givejudgment