John Gill's Exposition on Numbers 36:8

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And every daughter that possesseth an inheritance in any tribe if the children of Israel, etc.] For the same law which gave the daughters of Zelophehad right to their father’s inheritance, gave every other daughter in Israel a right to inherit where there were no sons, (<042708>Numbers 27:8) and every such daughter, according to this law, shall be wife unto one of the family of the tribe of her father; marry into her father’s tribe and family; by which it appears that such who were not heiresses might marry persons of another family, and even of another tribe: that the children of Israel may enjoy every man the inheritance of his fathers; of his father’s brethren, or of those that are near akin to him.

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