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John Gill's Exposition on Numbers 27:8

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, etc.] The above affair occasioned a law to be made, in which all the people would have a concern, among whom such cases should happen, as after related: saying, if a man die, and have no son, then ye shall cause his inheritance to pass unto his daughter; as in the above case of the daughters of Zelophehad; what was determined as to their particular case was made into a general law.
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