Num 36:1-5 - Commentary

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Text -- Numbers 36:1-5 (NET)

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Women and Land Inheritance

36:1 Then the heads of the family groups of the Gileadites, the descendant of Machir, the descendant of Manasseh, who were from the Josephite families, approached and spoke before Moses and the leaders who were the heads of the Israelite families. 36:2 They said, “The Lord commanded my lord to give the land as an inheritance by lot to the Israelites; and my lord was commanded by the Lord to give the inheritance of our brother Zelophehad to his daughters. 36:3 Now if they should be married to one of the men from another Israelite tribe, their inheritance would be taken from the inheritance of our fathers and added to the inheritance of the tribe into which they marry. As a result, it will be taken from the lot of our inheritance. 36:4 And when the Jubilee of the Israelites is to take place, their inheritance will be added to the inheritance of the tribe into which they marry. So their inheritance will be taken away from the inheritance of our ancestral tribe.”

Moses’ Decision

36:5 Then Moses gave a ruling to the Israelites by the word of the Lord: “What the tribe of the Josephites is saying is right.

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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics

Names, People and Places:

· Gilead a mountainous region east of the Jordan & north of the Arnon to Hermon,son of Machir son of Manasseh; founder of the clan of Gilead,father of Jephthah the judge,son of Michael of the tribe of Gad

· Israel a citizen of Israel.,a member of the nation of Israel

· Joseph the husband of Mary and foster-father of Jesus,a Jewish man from Arimathea in whose grave the body of Jesus was laid,two different men listed as ancestors of Jesus,a man nominated with Matthias to take the place of Judas Iscariot as apostle,a son of Jacob and Rachel; the father of Ephraim and Manasseh and ruler of Egypt,a brother of Jesus; a son of Mary,a man who was a companion of Paul,son of Jacob and Rachel; patriarch of the tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh,a tribe, actually two tribes named after Joseph's sons, Ephraim and Manasseh,father of Igal, of Issachar, who helped spy out Canaan,son of Asaph the Levite; worship leader under Asaph and King David,a man who put away his heathen wife; an Israelite descended from Binnui,priest and head of the house of Shebaniah under High Priest Joiakim in the time of Nehemiah

· Machir son of Manasseh (Joseph); father of Hezron's wife and of Gilead,son of Ammiel at Lo-Debar; Mephibosheth's friend

· Manasseh the tribe of Manasseh.

· Moses a son of Amram; the Levite who led Israel out of Egypt and gave them The Law of Moses,a Levite who led Israel out of Egypt and gave them the law

· Zelophehad son of Hepher of Machir of Manasseh

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Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Num 36:1 Heb “heads of the fathers.”

NET Notes: Num 36:2 The infinitive construct “to give” serves here as the complement or object of the verb, answering what the Lord had commanded Moses.

NET Notes: Num 36:3 Heb “which they will be to them,” meaning, to those who have them, i.e., the marriages.

NET Notes: Num 36:4 Heb “the tribe of our fathers.”

NET Notes: Num 36:5 Heb “mouth.”

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