Numbers 36

Numbers 36:1

chief fathers = heads.

sons. A special various reading called Sevir (App-34), with Syriac, reads “son”, as in Numbers 36:12.

children = sons.

Numbers 36:2

The LORD. Hebrew. Jehovah. App-4.

my lord = Moses, to whom the commandment was given. Numbers 26:52, Numbers 26:53, &c.; Numbers 27:6, Numbers 27:7.

Numbers 36:4

jubile. Compare Leviticus 25.

Numbers 36:5

word. Hebrew mouth. Put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Cause), App-6, for what is spoken by it.

Numbers 36:7

keep himself = cleave.

Numbers 36:8

man. Hebrew. ’ish. App-14.

Numbers 36:13

These. This verse forms the closing Epilogue to the whole book of Numbers.