Numbers 36:1

Soothly and the princes of the families of Gilead, the son of Machir, son of Manasseh, of the generation of the sons of Joseph, nighed, and spake to Moses before the princes of Israel, (And the leaders of the families of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of the sons of Joseph, came, and spoke to Moses before the leaders of Israel,)

Wycliffe Modern Spelling

In The King James Version

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:

In Context

2and said, The Lord commanded to thee our lord, that thou shouldest part the land by lot to the sons of Israel (or that thou shouldest divide up the land by lot to the Israelites), and that thou shouldest give to the daughters of Zelophehad, our brother, the possession due to their father.

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Cross References

Numbers 27:1Soothly the daughters of Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, son of Gilead, son of Machir, son of Manasseh, that was the son of Joseph, nighed (or came near); of which daughters these be the names; Mahlah, and Noah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Tirzah.

Numbers 27:7The daughters of Zelophehad ask a just thing; give thou possession to them among their father’s kinsmen, and be they successors to him into heritage. (The daughters of Zelophehad ask for a just thing; give thou them some property among their father’s kinsmen, and let them be the successors of his inheritance.)

1 Chronicles 7:14And the son of Manasseh was Asriel; and Sira + 7:14 Here the Hebrew text speaks of ‘an Aramean’, that is, ‘a citizen of Aram’. In Wycliffe’s time, ‘Aram’ was also called ‘Syria’. From this word, the translators mistakenly made the 1st person name, ‘Sira’., his secondary wife, childed Machir, the father of Gilead. (And the sons of Manasseh were Ashriel, and Machir, the father of Gilead, whom his secondary wife, the Syrian, or the Aramean, bare for him.)

Matthew Henry on Numbers 36:1

We have in this chapter the determination of another question that arose upon the case of the daughters of Zelophehad. God had appointed that they should inherit, ch. xxvii. 7 . Now here, I. An inconvenience is suggested, in case they should marry into any other tribe, ver. 1-4 . II. It is prevented by a divine appointment that they should marry in their own tribe and family ( ver. 5-7 ), and this is settled for a rule in like cases ( ver. 8, 9 ); and they did marry accordingly to some of their own relations (… Read the whole commentary →

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