CHAP. XXXVI.
1 The inconvenience of the inheritance of daugh∣ters is remedied by marrying in their owne tribes, lest the inheritance should be removed from the tribe. 10 The daughters of Zelophehad obey the Lords commandement, and marry their uncles sonnes.
AND the heads of the fathers of the [unspec 1] family of the sons of Gilead, the son of Machir, the sonne of Manasses, of the families of the sonnes of Ioseph, came neere, and spake before Moses and before the Princes, the heads of the fathers of the sons of Israel. And they said, Iehovah comman∣ded [unspec] my lord to give the land for an inheri∣tance, by lot, to the sonnes of Israel: and my lord was commanded by Iehovah to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother unto his daughters. And if they become wives [unspec 3] to any of the sons of the tribes of the sons of Israel, then shall their inheritance be taken away from the inheritance of our fathers, and shall be put to the inheritance of the tribe, unto whom they shall be; so it shall be taken away from the lot of our inheritance. And [unspec 4] when the Iubilee of the sonnes of Israel shall be, then shall their inheritance be put unto the inheritance of the tribe, unto whom they shall be: so their inheritance shall be taken a∣way from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers.
And Moses commanded the sonnes of Is∣rael [unspec 5] according to the mouth of Iehovah, say∣ing; The tribe of the sonnes of Ioseph speake right. This is the thing which Iehovah doth [unspec 6] command concerning the daughters of Ze∣lophehad, saying; Let them become wives to whom it is good in their eyes, onely to the family of the tribe of their father shall they become wives. And the inheritance of the [unspec 7] sonnes of Israel shall not remove from tribe to tribe; for every man of the sonnes of Israel shall cleave to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers. And every daughter that pos∣sesseth [unspec 8] an inheritance of the tribes of the sons of Israel, shall be wife unto one of the family of the tribe of her father, that the sonnes of Israel may possesse, every man the inheritance of his fathers. And the inheritance shall [unspec 9] not remove from one tribe to another tribe, but every man of the tribes of the sonnes of Israel shall cleave to his inheritance.
Even as Iehovah commanded Moses, so [unspec 10] [unspec 11] did the daughters of Zelophehad. For Machlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were wives unto their uncles sonnes. (To [unspec 12] men) of the families of the sonnes of Manas∣ses, the sonne of Ioseph, they became wives; and their inheritance was unto the tribe of the family of their father.
These are the commandements and the [unspec 13] judgements which Iehovah commanded, by the hand of Moses, unto the sonnes of Is∣rael, in the plaines of Moab, by Iordan, neere Iericho.
Annotations.
THE heads] in Greeke, the Princes, that is, the [unspec 1] chiefe fathers. God having designed the limits of the holy land which Israel should inherit, in Numb. 34. and appointed his owne portion out of the same, to be given unto the Priests and Levites, Numb. 35. doth now conclude his lawes with an or∣dinance