4. Mose 35:8
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Und betreffend die Städte, die ihr vom Erbbesitz der Kinder Israel geben werdet, sollt ihr von einem großen Stamm viele nehmen, und von einem kleineren wenige; ein jeder soll gemäß dem ihm zugeteilten Erbteil den Leviten von seinen Städten geben.
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Appointment of Towns for the Levites. - As the Levites were to receive no inheritance of their own, i.e., no separate tribe-territory, in the land of Canaan (Num 18:20 and Num 18:23), Moses commanded the children of Israel, i.e., the rest of the tribes, in accordance with the divine instructions, to give (vacate) towns to the Levites to dwell in of the inheritance that fell to them for a possession, with pasturage by the cities round about them for their cattle. "Towns to dwell in," i.e., not the whole of the towns as their own property, but as many houses in the towns as sufficed for the necessities of the Levites as their hereditary possession, which could be redeemed, if sold at any time, and which reverted to them without compensation in the year of jubilee, even if not redeemed before (Lev 25:32-33); but any portion of the towns which was not taken possession of by them, together with the fields and villages, continued the property of those tribes to which they had been assigned by lot (cf. Jos 21:12, and my commentary on this passage: also Bhr, Symbolik, ii. p. 50; Ewald, Gesch. ii. p. 403). They were also to give them מגרשׁ (from גּרשׁ, to drive, drive out), pasturage or fields, to feed their flocks upon, all round the cities; and according to Lev 25:34, this was not to be sold, but to remain the eternal possession of the Levites. לבהמתּם, for their oxen and beasts of burden, and לרכוּשׁם, for their (remaining) possessions in flocks (sheep and goats), which are generally described in other cases as Mikneh, in distinction from behemah (e.g., Num 32:26; Gen 34:23; Gen 36:6). לכל־חיּתם and for all their animals, is merely a generalizing summary signifying all the animals which they possessed.
Quelle öffnen ↗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, Num 27:7. Now here, I. An inconvenience is suggested, in case they should marry into any other tribe (Num 36:1-4). II. It is prevented by a divine appointment that they should marry in their own tribe and family (Num 36:5-7), and this is settled for a rule in like cases (Num 36:8, Num 36:9); and they did marry accordingly to some of their own relations (Num 36:10-12), and with this the book concludes (Num 36:13).
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Und ihr sollt das Land durchs Los als Erbe unter eure Geschlechter teilen. Den Zahlreichen sollt ihr ein größeres Erbteil geben, den Kleinen ein kleineres; wohin einem jeden das Los fällt, das soll er besitzen; nach den Stämmen eurer Väter sollt ihr erben.
Vielen sollst du viel zum Erbteil geben, und wenigen wenig; jedem Stamm soll man sein Erbteil geben nach der Zahl seiner Gemusterten.
Aber als man es mit dem Gomer maß, hatte der, welcher viel gesammelt hatte, keinen Überfluß, und dem, der wenig gesammelt hatte, mangelte nichts, sondern ein jeder hatte für sich gesammelt, soviel er essen mochte.
Verflucht sei ihr Zorn, weil er so heftig, und ihr Grimm, weil er so hartnäckig ist! Ich will sie verteilen unter Jakob und zerstreuen unter Israel.