John Gill's Exposition on Numbers 36:6

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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This is the thing which the Lord doth command concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, etc.] Concerning this affair relative to them; the Targum of Jonathan paraphrases the words, “not for the generations that rise up after the division of the land, but for the daughters of Zelophehad;” as if this order only respected them, or what might happen before the land was divided, but not after; and this is the general opinion of the Jewish writers; but it seems, that as the following law not only concerns them, but all heiresses, so all such after as well as before the division of the land, since the reason of it holds good after as before: saying, let them marry to whom they think best; whom they like best, who are most acceptable to them; as it was reasonable they should, and not have such forced upon them, whose persons were disagreeable to them: only into the family of the tribe of their father shall they marry; they were to marry not only such as were of the tribe of Manasseh, but of their father’s family in that tribe; they could only marry into the family of the Hepherites; (see <042632>Numbers 26:32,33).

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