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John Gill's Exposition on Numbers 36:7
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John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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So shall not the inheritance of the children of Israel remove from tribe to tribe, etc.] Which shows that this concerns all the tribes of Israel, though yet not fully expressed, as it is afterwards: for everyone of the children of Israel shall keep himself to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers; or cleave f528 to a wife in that tribe for marriage; this word is used in the original institution of it, (<010224>Genesis 2:24) though they were not strictly obliged to marry in their own tribe; and frequently they did intermarry with other tribes, which, had it been unlawful, would not have been done, as it was by kings, and priests, and others; nor was there any danger of an inheritance going into another tribe by a man’s marrying into it; wherefore this signifies only, that they were to be careful to keep their inheritances in their tribe; and therefore if any of them had no sons, only daughters, he was to marry them in his own tribe and family, that the inheritance might not remove, as follows
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