John Gill's Exposition on Numbers 36:2

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And they said, etc.] One in the name of the rest: the Lord commanded my lord; that is, Moses, whom they address in a very respectable manner, being the chief governor of the nation under God: to give the land for an inheritance by lot to the children of Israel; which command may be seen, in (<042653>Numbers 26:53-56): and my lord was commanded by the Lord to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother; or kinsman, being of the same tribe: unto his daughters; who sued for it, and upon Moses’s consulting the Lord about it, it was ordered they should have it, (<042701>Numbers 27:1-11) and which these princes observed was likely to be attended with the following inconvenience.

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