Numbers 36:9 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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Chapter 36

⁹Neither shall the inheritance remove from one tribe to another tribe; but every one of the tribes of the children of Israel shall keep himself to his own inheritance.

Numbers 36:9 —

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 5-13)

Here is, I. The matter settled by express order from God between the daughters of Zelophehad and the rest of the tribe of Manasseh. The petition is assented to, and care taken to prevent the inconvenience feared: The tribe of the sons of Joseph hath said well, Num. 36:5. Thus those that consult the oracles of God concerning the making of their heavenly inheritance sure shall not only be directed w…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 9)

5-12. Moses commanded the children of Israel according to the word of the Lord--The plea appeared just and reasonable; and, accordingly an enactment was made by which the daughters of Zelophehad, while left to the free choice of their husbands, were restricted to marry not only within their own tribe, but within the family of their father’s tribe--that is, one of their cousins. This restriction, h…