Numbers 36:12 (BSB)
They married within the clans of the descendants of Manasseh son of Joseph, and their inheritance remained within the tribe of their father’s clan.
From Numbers 36. Also in the ESV.
Commentary on Numbers 36:12
- Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Numbers 36:5-13: Here is, I. The matter settled by express order from God between the daughters of Zelophehad and the rest of the tribe of Manasseh. The petition is assented to, and care taken to prevent the inconvenience feared: The tribe of the sons of Joseph hath said well, Num 36:5.
- John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Numbers 36:12: These are the commandments and the judgments,.... The judicial laws concerning the division of the land of Canaan, the case of inheritances in it, and the cities of refuge: which the Lord commanded by, the hand of Moses unto the children of Israel, in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho; where the Israelites had been ever since they were first observed by Balak...
- Adam Clarke (Methodist), Clarke's Commentary on the Bible on Numbers 36:12: And their inheritance remained in - the family - "By this example, and the law of inheritances in the Holy Land, the people of God," says Ainsworth, "are taught to hold fast their inheritance in his promises, and their right in Christ, which they hold by faith; that as the Father hath made them meet to be partakers of the inheritance among the saints in...