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Numbers 36:6

in Numbers 36

This is what the LORD has commanded concerning the daughters of Zelophehad: They may marry anyone they please, provided they marry within a clan of the tribe of their father.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

This is the thing which Jehovah doth command concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, Let them be married to whom they think best; only into the family of the tribe of their father shall they be married.

KJV

This is the thing which the Lord doth command concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, Let them marry to whom they think best; only to the family of the tribe of their father shall they marry.

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This verse in Numbers 36

Commentary

5 notes on this verse

A commentator

Eusebius of Caesarea

ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY 1.7 · Written before 339.

Now, since the genealogy of Joseph is so traced, Mary also appears virtually to have been of the same tribe as he, since, according to the law of Moses, intermarriages between different tribes were not permitted. For it was commanded to join in marriage with one of the same family and of the same people, so that the inheritance of the race might not be changed from tribe to tribe.

This site's exposition

the tribe of the sons of Joseph hath said well

on Numbers 36:5-6

The answer given through Moses calls the objection right, the tribe of the sons of Joseph hath said well. A ruling delivered at 27:7 is refined here because a second party was heard, and the Torah records the amendment plainly. Jamieson, Fausset and Brown call this progressive legislation and observe that the additions of this kind fall in civil matters while the laws of worship take no such change. The liberty of the first ruling survives in the second, let them marry to whom they think best, with the limit set at the family of the tribe of their father.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

This is the thing which the Lord doth command concerning the daughters of Zelophehad,....

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Here was an instance of progressive legislation (see also Ex 18:27) in Israel, the enactments made being suggested by circumstances. But it is deserving of special notice that those additions to, or modifications of, the law were confined to civil affairs; while the slightest change was inadmissible in the laws relating to worship or the maintenance of religion.

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

Let them marry to whom they think best - Here was latitude sufficient, and yet a salutary and reasonable restraint, which prevented a vexatious mixture of property and possession.

The words behind it

18 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.

  • זֶ֣הthis

    zehH2088 →1180 times

  • הַדָּבָ֞ר[is] the word

    hadavarH1697 →1440 times

  • אֲשֶׁר־which

    ʾasher-H834 →5497 times

  • צִוָּ֣הhe has commanded

    tzivahH6680 →494 times

  • יְהוָ֗הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • לִבְנ֤וֹתof [the] daughters of

    livnotH1323 →588 times

  • צְלָפְחָד֙Zelophehad

    tzelafechadH6765 →11 times

  • לֵאמֹ֔ר<to> saying

    lemorH559 →5305 times

  • לַטּ֥וֹבto the good

    latovH2896 →538 times

  • בְּעֵינֵיהֶ֖םin view their

    beeineihemH5869 →887 times

  • תִּהְיֶ֣ינָהthey will belong

    tihyeinahH1961 →3559 times

  • לְנָשִׁ֑יםto wives

    lenashimH802 →781 times

  • אַ֗ךְonly

    ʾakhH389 →161 times

  • לְמִשְׁפַּ֛חַתto [the] clan of

    lemishpachatH4940 →303 times

  • מַטֵּ֥ה[the] tribe of

    matehH4294 →252 times

  • אֲבִיהֶ֖םancestor their

    ʾavihemH1 →1212 times

  • תִּהְיֶ֥ינָהthey will belong

    tihyeinahH1961 →3559 times

  • לְנָשִֽׁים׃to wives

    lenashimH802 →781 times

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

Related verses

4 in all, six open

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

    2 Corinthians 6:14

    Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership can righteousness have with wickedness? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?

    it leads to

    • 1 Corinthians 15:33

      Do not be deceived: “Bad company corrupts good character.”

    • 1 Corinthians 10:21

      You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons too; you cannot partake in the table of the Lord and the table of demons too.

    • James 4:4

      You adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore, whoever chooses to be a friend of the world renders himself an enemy of God.

    • Ephesians 5:6–14

      Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of such things the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience.

    • Leviticus 19:19

      You are to keep My statutes. You shall not crossbreed two different kinds of livestock; you shall not sow your fields with two kinds of seed; and you shall not wear clothing made of…

  • Through

    Genesis 24:3

    and I will have you swear by the LORD, the God of heaven and the God of earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites…

    it leads to

    • Genesis 26:34–35

      When Esau was forty years old, he took as his wives Judith daughter of Beeri the Hittite and Basemath daughter of Elon the Hittite.

    • 2 Corinthians 6:14–17

      Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership can righteousness have with wickedness? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?

    • Deuteronomy 7:3–4

      Do not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons,

Where this verse is studied

About Numbers

The Bronze Serpent, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
The Bronze Serpent, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Numbers: the study guide →Read Numbers 36 →

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Eusebius of Caesarea, ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY 1.7; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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