2 And they ſaid, * The LORD commanded my + Ch: p.2 lord co give the land for an inheritance by. lot to the 5 * children of Urael; and * my lord was commanded by *Chap:27; the LORD, to give the inheritance of Zeclophehad our 7: þ brother, b unto his daughters. Joſh:17:38
b (i.e.) Our kinſman, one of our Tribe, Joſ: 17. 2, 3.
3 And if they be married co any of the fons of the other Tribes ot the children of 1frael, then ſball their in- hericance be taken from the Inheritance of our Feathers, | and ſhall be put to the inhericance of the Tribe,twhere- + Heb: u#| unto they are received c : fo ſhall it be taken from the 2 29m | lot of our inhericance. hey ſÞ oy
c For their inheritance will paſs to their children, who will be * i of another Tribe by their fathers ſide, which alone is conſidered in this place.
4 And when the * jubile of the children of Iſrael ſhall be 4, then (hall their inheritance be put unto the inhe- ritance of the Tribe whereunto they are received: So ſhall cheir inheritance be taken away from the inheri- tance of the Tribe of our Fathers.
_ 4 Which God appointed principally for this end, to preſerve the inheritance in the hands of the Tribes and Families to which they were firſt given.
5 And Moſes commanded the children of Iſrael ac- cording to the word of the LORD, ſaying, The Tribe of the ſons of Joſeph harh ſaid well e.
e Theirplea is jult and reaſonable. God did not take particular care about every occurrence that happened or might happen, bur left divers things to be found out by humane prudence, which be- ing his own gitt, it was meet there ſhould be opportunities left for the exerciſe of it, and God thought fit to approve and ratifie the prudent and profitzble inventions of Men, by his own law or ſan&i- on, as in the caſe of Jethro, Exod. 18. of Zelophehads Daughters Numb: 27. and here of their brethren. But it is obſervable, that God allowed this only in civil affairs, but never in the-matters of his worſhip, where he utterly forbids it.
6 1his is thething which the LORD doth command concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, ſaying, Let them F marry. to whom they think beſt : only to the + Hebt 8 Family of the Tribe of their Father f ſhall they marry. Jug.”
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f They ſeem hereby to be contined not only to the ſame Tribe ; but alſo to the family of their Tribe, asappears from the reaſon of the Law, for God wou!d have the inheritance of Families as well as Tribes kept entire and unmixed: And this was one reaſon of that Law of marrying the Brother's wife, Deut; 25. And although the next verſe may ſeem to thwart this interpretation, the reaſon of this Law being there given, that inheritances might not go from Tribe to Tribe, yet verſe8. confirms it, where the very ſame phrate is repeated, and that more emphatically, that ſuch ſhall marry one of the Family of the Tribe of her Father ; and this further reaſon and re- {tri&tion is added, That they may enjoy every man the inheritance (not only ofhis Tribe, bur) of his Fathers, to wit, belonging to his Fa- ther's family. | -
7 So hail not the inheritance of the children of Iſrael remove from tribe to tribe: For every one of the chil- dren of Iſrael ſhall + keep himfelf co the inheritance of + xxep.; | the Tribe of his fachers. | cleave to |
8 And every daughter that poſleſſeth an inheritance #hee, &64 Fg 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.
g By which clauſe itſeems thatthis Law was not general to: for- bid every woman to marry into another Tribe (as may be reaſon- ably concluded from the praftice of ſo many Patriarchs, Kings Prieſts, and other holy Men, who have married women of other Tribes, yea, ſometimes of other Nations, which: it is hot like] they would have done, if this had been a tranſgrefſion of God's Law) but reſtrained to heireſles, or ſuch as were likely ro be ſo. See 1 Chron: 23+ 22. Bur if they had Brethren, it is probable they were free to marry into any Tribe, yet ſo, that if their Brethren dyed, their puniſhment was, that the inheritance went from them to the next a kin of their Father's Trike. and Family. And the + preſerve Tribes and nd. Family too, -out of ich he ſhould be known,
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9 Neither hall the inheritance remove from ze Tribe |. to another Tribe: But every one ef the Tribes of the chil- - dren of Iſrael ſbalikeep himſelf ro his own inheritance. 10 Even as the. LORD commanded Moſes, fo did the daughters of Zelophehad. ' 11 * For Mahlah, Tirzah,; and Hoglah, and Milcah, , and Noah the daughters of Zeluphehad, were married b, *Þ: 275 unto their fathers brothers ſons þ. : þ Tt is uncertain whether Brothers or Sos be taken ſtrifly and properly, or more largely ,as thoſe words are oft uſed in Scriptuze. 12 Axudthey were married + inco the families of the + Heb: ſons of Manafleh,the ſon of Joſeph, and their inhericance ſome rhat remained in the tribe of the family of cheir father. were of th 13 Theſe are the commandments. and the judgements families. + which the LORD commanded by the hand of Moles,
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here mentioned after ht had conſecrated him, to ſucceed. CHA P. jL 4 Rehearſol of what had befallen Iſrael in their forty years march, as God's Command to depart, 1-=-6. Moſes's inability to juage alone, g---:2 Other ' Fuages and Officers appointed, 13-16. Charge given the Judges, 17, 18 Their paſſage to Kadeſb-Barnea, 19, 20, 21. Spies ſent to ſearch the Land of the Amorites, 22. Their Return and Report, 23. The diſobedience of the people, 26, God's Wrath, 34. They ſmitten by the Amorites, 44» Their - complaint to God, which the Lord regards not, 45. Heſe be the words which Moſes ſpake 4 un-
to all Iſrael 6, on this ſide Jordan, in the ' wilderneſs, in the plain c over againſt the
|| Red ſea, between Paran 4, and Tophel, and Laban e, and Hazeroth f, and Dizahab.