Numbers 36:1 (BSB)

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 and addressed them,

From Numbers 36. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Numbers 36:1

• John Calvin (Reformed), Calvin's Commentaries on Numbers 36:1: 1. And the chief fathers of the families. It might appear strange that God had given an imperfect law with reference to succession, as if what will be now stated had not occurred to His mind until Moses was reminded by the chief men of the families (of Machir,) Added from Fr.
• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Numbers 36:1-4: We have here the humble address which the heads of the tribe of Manasseh made to Moses and the princes, on occasion of the order lately made concerning the daughters of Zelophehad. The family they belonged to was part of that half of the tribe of Manasseh which we yet to have their lot within Jordan, not that half that was already settled; and yet...
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Numbers 36:1: 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...
• Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Numbers 36:1: And the chief fathers of the families of the children of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of the sons of Joseph, came near, and spake before Moses, and before the princes, the chief fathers of the children of Israel: (a) It seems that the tribes contended who might marry these daughters to have their inheritance: and therefore the...