Num. 36 The inconvenience of daughters inheriting is remedied by a general command that all such marry in the tribe of their fathers, to which of them they shall think best, Num. 36:1–9. They obey, Num. 36:10–12. These commands God gave by Moses to Israel in the plains of Moab, Num. 36:13.

The chief fathers of the families, who had the care and management of the public affairs of that tribe committed to them.

Our brother, i.e. our kinsman, one of our tribe, Josh. 17:2–3.

For their inheritance will pass to their children, who will be of another tribe by their father’s side, which alone is considered in this place.

Which God appointed principally for this end, to preserve the inheritance in the hands of the tribes and families to which they were first given.

Their plea is just and reasonable. God did not take particular care about every occurrence that happened, or might happen, but left divers things to be found out by human prudence, which being his own gift, it was meet there should be opportunities left for the exercise of it; and God thought fit…

They seem hereby to be confined not only to the same tribe, trot also to the family of their tribe, as appears from the reason of the law, for God would have the inheritance of families as well as tribes kept entire and unmixed; and this was one reason of that law of marrying the brother’s wife,…

By which clause it seems that this law was not general to forbid every woman to marry into another tribe, (as may be reasonably concluded from the practice of so many patriarchs, kings, priests, and other holy men, who have married women of other tribes, yea, sometimes of other nations, which it is…

It is certain whether brothers or sons be taken strictly and properly, or more large, as those words are oft used in Scripture.