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Numbers 35:29

in Numbers 35

This will be a statutory ordinance for you for the generations to come, wherever you live.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

And these things shall be for a statute and ordinance unto you throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

KJV

So these things shall be for a statute of judgment unto you throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

This verse in Numbers 35

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

a statute of judgment unto you throughout your generations

on Numbers 35:29-30

The statute is tied to no one place, throughout your generations in all your dwellings, so a trial for blood runs by the same rule in every town. Verse 30 sets the standard of proof, that a murderer dies by the mouth of witnesses and that one witness cannot bring any man to death. Deuteronomy 17:6 and 19:15 repeat the rule and the New Testament carries it forward at Matthew 18:16, 2 Corinthians 13:1, 1 Timothy 5:19 and Hebrews 10:28. Adam Clarke gives its practical ground, that one man may be mistaken or malicious and that two separate examinations expose the difference.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

So these things shall be for a statute of judgment unto you,....

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

these things shall be for a statute of judgment unto you throughout your generations--The law of the blood-avenger, as thus established by divine authority, was a vast improvement on the ancient practice of Goelism.

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The words behind it

8 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וְהָי֨וּand they will become

    vehayuH19613559 times

  • אֵ֧לֶּהthese [things]

    ʾelehH428746 times

  • לָכֶ֛םfor <the> you

    lakhem

  • לְחֻקַּ֥ת<into> a statute of

    lechukatH2708104 times

  • מִשְׁפָּ֖טjudgment

    mishpatH4941422 times

  • לְדֹרֹתֵיכֶ֑םto generations your

    ledoroteikhemH1755167 times

  • בְּכֹ֖לin all

    bekholH36055413 times

  • מוֹשְׁבֹתֵיכֶֽם׃dwelling places your

    moshevoteikhemH418644 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Numbers 27:1

    Now the daughters of Zelophehad son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, belonged to the clans of Manasseh son of Joseph. These were the names of…

    it leads to

    • Numbers 26:33

      Now Zelophehad son of Hepher had no sons but only daughters. The names of his daughters were Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.

    • Galatians 3:28

      There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

    • 1 Chronicles 7:15

      Machir took a wife from among the Huppites and Shuppites. The name of his sister was Maacah. Another descendant was named Zelophehad, who had only daughters.

    • Numbers 36:1–12

      Now the family heads of the clan of Gilead son of Machir son of Manasseh, one of the clans of Joseph, approached Moses and the leaders who were the heads of the Israelite families…

    • Joshua 17:3–6

      But Zelophehad son of Hepher (the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh) had no sons but only daughters. These are the names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah,…

  • Through

    Numbers 27:11

    And if his father has no brothers, give his inheritance to the next of kin from his clan, that he may take possession of it. This is to be a statutory ordinance for the…

    it leads to

    • Jeremiah 32:8

      Then, as the LORD had said, my cousin Hanamel came to me in the courtyard of the guard and urged me, ‘Please buy my field in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin, for you…

    • Ruth 4:3–6

      And he said to the kinsman-redeemer, “Naomi, who has returned from the land of Moab, is selling the piece of land that belonged to our brother Elimelech.

    • Leviticus 25:49

      either his uncle or cousin or any close relative from his clan may redeem him. Or if he prospers, he may redeem himself.

Where this verse is studied

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About Numbers

The Bronze Serpent, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
The Bronze Serpent, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch.