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John Gill's Exposition on Numbers 36:9

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John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Neither shall the inheritance remove from one tribe to another, etc.] Which was one end of the year of jubilee, but that did not sufficiently secure it without this law, as this case shows: but everyone of the tribes of Israel shall keep himself to his own inheritance; the chief view of which was, that it might clearly appear of what tribe and family the Messiah sprang when he came.
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