Numbers 36:8
And every daughter who possesses an inheritance from any of the tribes of the Israelites must become the wife of a man from any family in her father’s tribe, so that every Israelite may retain the inheritance of his fathers.
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- 1 Chr 23:22 : 22 Eleazar died without having sons; he had only daughters. The sons of Kish, their cousins, married them.
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- Num 36:6-72 verses84%
6This is what the LORD has commanded for Zelophehad’s daughters:‘Let them marry whomever they think best, only they must marry within the family of their father’s tribe.
7In this way the inheritance of the Israelites will not be transferred from tribe to tribe. But every one of the Israelites must retain the ancestral heritage.
- Num 36:9-124 verses83%
9No inheritance may pass from tribe to tribe. But every one of the tribes of the Israelites must retain its inheritance.”
10As the LORD had commanded Moses, so the daughters of Zelophehad did.
11For the daughters of Zelophehad– Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Noah– were married to the sons of their uncles.
12They were married into the families of the Manassehites, the descendants of Joseph, and their inheritance remained in the tribe of their father’s family.
- Num 36:2-43 verses82%
2They said,“The LORD commanded my lord to give the land as an inheritance by lot to the Israelites; and my lord was commanded by the LORD to give the inheritance of our brother Zelophehad to his daughters.
3Now if they should be married to one of the men from another Israelite tribe, their inheritance would be taken from the inheritance of our fathers and added to the inheritance of the tribe into which they marry. As a result, it will be taken from the lot of our inheritance.
4And when the Jubilee of the Israelites is to take place, their inheritance will be added to the inheritance of the tribe into which they marry. So their inheritance will be taken away from the inheritance of our ancestral tribe.”
- Num 27:7-115 verses79%
7“The daughters of Zelophehad have a valid claim. You must indeed give them possession of an inheritance among their father’s relatives, and you must transfer the inheritance of their father to them.
8And you must tell the Israelites,‘If a man dies and has no son, then you must transfer his inheritance to his daughter;
9and if he has no daughter, then you are to give his inheritance to his brothers;
10and if he has no brothers, then you are to give his inheritance to his father’s brothers;
11and if his father has no brothers, then you are to give his inheritance to his relative nearest to him from his family, and he will possess it. This will be for the Israelites a legal requirement, as the LORD commanded Moses.’”
- Exod 21:9-102 verses73%
9If he designated her for his son, then he will deal with her according to the customary rights of daughters.
10If he takes another wife, he must not diminish the first one’s food, her clothing, or her marital rights.
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12Therefore do not give your daughters in marriage to their sons, and do not take their daughters in marriage for your sons. Do not ever seek their peace or welfare, so that you may be strong and may eat the good of the land and may leave it as an inheritance for your children forever.’
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16These are the statutes that the LORD commanded Moses, relating to a man and his wife, and a father and his young daughter who is still living in her father’s house.
- Deut 25:5-62 verses72%
5Respect for the Sanctity of Others If brothers live together and one of them dies without having a son, the dead man’s wife must not remarry someone outside the family. Instead, her late husband’s brother must go to her, marry her, and perform the duty of a brother-in-law.
6Then the first son she bears will continue the name of the dead brother, thus preventing his name from being blotted out of Israel.
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38but you must go to the family of my father and to my relatives to find a wife for my son.’
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3You must not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons,
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7How can we find wives for those who are left? After all, we took an oath in the LORD’s name not to give them our daughters as wives.”
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24Then the Israelites dispersed from there to their respective tribal and clan territories. Each went from there to his own property.
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6for the daughters of Manasseh were assigned land among his sons. The land of Gilead belonged to the rest of the descendants of Manasseh.
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15Nowhere in all the land could women be found who were as beautiful as Job’s daughters, and their father granted them an inheritance alongside their brothers.
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6They took the Canaanites’ daughters as wives and gave their daughters to the Canaanites; they worshiped their gods as well.
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16Then we will give you our daughters to marry, and we will take your daughters as wives for ourselves, and we will live among you and become one people.
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6Marry and have sons and daughters. Find wives for your sons and allow your daughters to get married so that they too can have sons and daughters. Grow in number; do not dwindle away.
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22When their fathers or brothers come and protest to us, we’ll say to them,“Do us a favor and let them be, for we could not get each one a wife through battle. Don’t worry about breaking your oath! You would only be guilty if you had voluntarily given them wives.’”
- Judg 21:17-182 verses70%
17The remnant of Benjamin must be preserved. An entire Israelite tribe should not be wiped out.
18But we can’t allow our daughters to marry them, for the Israelites took an oath, saying,‘Whoever gives a woman to a Benjaminite will be destroyed!’
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9Intermarry with us. Let us marry your daughters, and take our daughters as wives for yourselves.
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4They went before Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the leaders and said,“The LORD told Moses to assign us land among our relatives.” So Joshua assigned them land among their uncles, as the LORD had commanded.
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22They must not marry a widow or a divorcee, but they may marry a virgin from the house of Israel or a widow who is a priest’s widow.
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8He must eat the same share they do, despite any profits he may gain from the sale of his family’s inheritance.
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4Why should the name of our father be lost from among his family because he had no son? Give us a possession among the relatives of our father.”
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22You must allot it as an inheritance among yourselves and for the resident foreigners who live among you, who have fathered sons among you. You must treat them as native-born among the people of Israel; they will be allotted an inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel.
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13but if a priest’s daughter is a widow or divorced, and she has no children so that she returns to live in her father’s house as in her youth, she may eat from her father’s food, but no lay person may eat it.
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54You must divide the land by lot for an inheritance among your families. To a larger group you must give a larger inheritance, and to a smaller group you must give a smaller inheritance. Everyone’s inheritance must be in the place where his lot falls. You must inherit according to your ancestral tribes.
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14all the clans that remain, each separately with their wives.”
- Lev 21:13-142 verses69%
13He must take a wife who is a virgin.
14He must not marry a widow, a divorced woman, or one profaned by prostitution; he may only take a virgin from his people as a wife.
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18and to all the infants, wives, sons, and daughters of the entire assembly listed in the genealogical records, for they faithfully consecrated themselves.
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38So then, the one who marries his own virgin does well, but the one who does not, does better.
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18You must take one leader from every tribe to assist in allocating the land as an inheritance.
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16and you then take his daughters for your sons, and when his daughters prostitute themselves to their gods, they will make your sons prostitute themselves to their gods as well.
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30“We will not give our daughters in marriage to the neighboring peoples, and we will not take their daughters in marriage for our sons.
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25Now there were seven brothers among us. The first one married and died, and since he had no children he left his wife to his brother.