{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/cmt/barnes/num036.htm","path":"bib/cmt/barnes/num036.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/cmt/barnes/num036.htm","text":"Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]\nThe daughters of Zelophehad had obtained an ordinance Num 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.\nBe 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.\nUnto their father's brothers' sons - Or more generally, \"unto the sons of their kinsmen.\"","title":"Notes on the Bible by Albert Barnes: Numbers: Numbers Chapter 36","type":"page"}