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Numbers 36:7

in Numbers 36

No inheritance in Israel may be transferred from tribe to tribe, because each of the Israelites is to retain the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

So shall no inheritance of the children of Israel remove from tribe to tribe; for the children of Israel shall cleave every one to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.

KJV

So shall not the inheritance of the children of Israel remove from tribe to tribe: for every one of the children of Israel shall keep himself to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.

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This verse in Numbers 36

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

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.

This site's exposition

So shall not the inheritance of the children

on Numbers 36:7-9

The case of one family becomes a standing law for every heiress in Israel, and verses 7 and 9 state the same principle twice in almost the same words. The tribal map drawn by lot at 26:55 is meant to hold, so each tribe keeps to the inheritance of its fathers. John Gill and John Wesley both read a further purpose in the law, that tribe and family stay traceable so the descent of the Messiah could be identified when he came, and Eusebius argues Mary's tribe from Joseph's on the same ground in his Ecclesiastical History. The reading belongs to those writers, since the reason Numbers gives is that every man may enjoy the inheritance of his fathers.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

), lest there should be confusion among them, their estates entangled, and their genealogies perplexed. God would not have one tribe to be enriched by the straitening and impoverishing of another, since they were all alike the seed of Abraham his friend. The law, in this particular case, was made perpetual, and to be observed whenever hereafter the like case should happen,

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The words behind it

16 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.

  • וְלֹֽא־and not

    velo'-H3808 →5168 times

  • תִסֹּ֤בit will go about

    tisoH5437 →161 times

  • נַחֲלָה֙an inheritance

    nachalahH5159 →222 times

  • לִבְנֵ֣יof [the] people of

    livneiH1121 →4930 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵ֔לIsrael

    yisraelH3478 →2507 times

  • מִמַּטֶּ֖הfrom tribe

    mimatehH4294 →252 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • מַטֶּ֑הtribe

    matehH4294 →252 times

  • כִּ֣יfor

    kiH3588 →4482 times

  • אִ֗ישׁeveryone

    ʾishH376 →1663 times

  • בְּנַחֲלַת֙on [the] inheritance of

    benachalatH5159 →222 times

  • מַטֵּ֣ה[the] tribe of

    matehH4294 →252 times

  • אֲבֹתָ֔יוancestors his

    ʾavotavH1 →1212 times

  • יִדְבְּק֖וּthey will hold

    yidbekuH1692 →

  • בְּנֵ֥י[the] people of

    beneiH1121 →4930 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃Israel

    yisraelH3478 →2507 times

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

Related verses

3 in all, six open

The walk

5 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

    1 Kings 21:3

    But Naboth replied, “The LORD forbid that I should give you the inheritance of my fathers.”

    it leads to

    • Leviticus 25:23

      The land must not be sold permanently, because it is Mine, and you are but foreigners and residents with Me.

    • Ezekiel 46:18

      The prince must not take any of the inheritance of the people by evicting them from their property. He is to provide an inheritance for his sons from his own property, so that none…

    • Galatians 6:14

      But as for me, may I never boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

    • Job 27:5

      I will never say that you are right; I will maintain my integrity until I die.

    • Romans 7:13

      Did that which is good, then, become death to me? Certainly not! But in order that sin might be exposed as sin, it produced death in me through what was good, so that through…

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; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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