民数记 36:1

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

女繼承人之結婚條例約瑟後裔的家族中，有瑪拿西的孫子、瑪吉的兒子基列的子孫，他們族中的首領都前來，在摩西面前，在各家族作首領的領袖面前，和在以色列人面前說：

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
约 瑟 的 後 裔 ， 玛 拿 西 的 孙 子 ， 玛 吉 的 儿 子 基 列 ， 他 子 孙 中 的 诸 族 长 来 到 摩 西 和 作 首 领 的 以 色 列 人 族 长 面 前 ， 说 ：

Contextual Overview

¹ The leaders of Gilead's family group went to talk to Moses and the leaders of the families of Israel. (Gilead was the son of Makir, the son of Manasseh, the son of Joseph.) ² They said, "The Lord commanded you, our master, to give the land to the Israelites by throwing lots, and the Lord commanded you to give the land of Zelophehad, our brother, to his daughters. ³ But if his daughters marry men from other tribes of Israel, then that land will leave our family, and the people of the other tribes will get that land. So we will lose some of our land. ⁴ When the time of Jubilee comes for the Israelites, their land will go to the tribes of the people they marry; their land will be taken away from us, the land we received from our fathers."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Gilead: Numbers 26:29-33, Numbers 27:1, Joshua 17:2, Joshua 17:3, 1 Chronicles 7:14-16

Reciprocal: Exodus 18:22 - great Numbers 27:7 - General 1 Chronicles 7:15 - and Zelophehad

Cross-References

Genesis 22:17
I will surely bless you and give you many descendants. They will be as many as the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore, and they will capture the cities of their enemies.

Genesis 36:3
and Basemath, Ishmael's daughter, the sister of Nebaioth.

Genesis 36:7
Esau and Jacob's belongings were becoming too many for them to live in the same land. The land where they had lived could not support both of them, because they had too many herds.

Genesis 36:14
Esau's third wife was Oholibamah the daughter of Anah. (Anah was the son of Zibeon.) Esau and Oholibamah gave birth to Jeush, Jalam, and Korah.

Genesis 36:21
Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan. These sons of Seir were the leaders of the Horites in Edom.

Genesis 36:24
The sons of Zibeon were Aiah and Anah. Anah is the man who found the hot springs in the desert while he was caring for his father's donkeys.

Genesis 36:34
When Jobab died, Husham became king. He was from the land of the Temanites.

Genesis 36:35
When Husham died, Hadad son of Bedad, who had defeated Midian in the country of Moab, became king. Hadad was from the city of Avith.

Genesis 36:41
Oholibamah, Elah, Pinon,

Deuteronomy 23:7
Don't hate Edomites; they are your close relatives. Don't hate Egyptians, because you were foreigners in their country.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the chief fathers of the families of the children of Gilead,.... The princes, as Aben Ezra; so the Septuagint version, which was the tribe of Manasseh, whose grandson Gilead was, as follows:

the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh of the families of the sons of Joseph, came near; to the house of judgment, as the Targum of Jonathan, the sanhedrim or court of judicature, consisting of the following persons:

and spoke before Moses; the Septuagint version adds, "and before Eleazar the priest", as in Numbers 27:2

and before the princes, the chief fathers of the children of Israel: the princes of the several tribes; or it may be rather the seventy elders.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The daughters of Zelophehad had obtained an ordinance Numbers 28:6-11 which permitted the daughters of an Israelite dying without male issue to inherit their father’s property. The chiefs of the Machirites, of whom Zelophehad had been one, now obtain a supplemental enactment, directing that heiresses should marry within their own tribe.

Numbers 36:4

Be taken away - i. e. be permanently taken away. The jubilee year, by not restoring the estate to the tribe to which it originally belonged, would in effect confirm the alienation.

Numbers 36:11

Unto their father’s brothers’ sons - Or more generally, “unto the sons of their kinsmen.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER XXXVI

The inconveniences which might be produced by daughters,

inheritances, marrying out of their own tribe, remedied on the

recommendation of certain chiefs of the tribe of Joseph, who

stated the case of the daughters of Zelophehad, 1-4.

The daughters of Zelophehad are commanded to marry in their own

tribe, 5, 6;

which is to be an ordinance in all similar circumstances, 7-9.

The daughters of Zelophehad marry their father's brother's sons,

and thus their inheritance is preserved in their own tribe,

10-12.

The conclusion of the commandments given by the Lord to the

Israelites in the plains of Moab, 13.

NOTES ON CHAP. XXXVI