Moses declared that what they had affirmed was right (כּן), and then, by command of Jehovah, he told the daughters of Zelophehad that they might marry whoever pleased them (the suffix ־הם, attached to בּעיני, for ־הן, as in Exodus 1:21; Genesis 31:9, etc.), but that he must belong to the family of their father's tribe, that is to say, must be a Manassite. For (Numbers 36:7) the inheritance was not to turn away the Israelites from one tribe to another (not to be transferred from one to another), but every Israelite was to keep to the inheritance of his father's tribe, and no one was to enter upon the possession of another tribe by marrying an heiress belonging to that tribe. This is afterwards extended, in Numbers 36:8 and Numbers 36:9, into a general law for every heiress in Israel.

Numbers 36:13 Parallel Commentaries

the commandments

Leviticus 7:37,38 This is the law of the burnt offering, of the meat offering, and of the sin offering, and of the trespass offering...

Leviticus 11:46 This is the law of the beasts, and of the fowl, and of every living creature that moves in the waters...

Leviticus 13:59 This is the law of the plague of leprosy in a garment of woolen or linen, either in the warp, or woof, or any thing of skins...

Leviticus 14:54-57 This is the law for all manner of plague of leprosy, and scale...

Leviticus 15:32,33 This is the law of him that has an issue, and of him whose seed goes from him, and is defiled therewith...

Leviticus 27:34 These are the commandments, which the LORD commanded Moses for the children of Israel in mount Sinai.

in the plains of Moab

Numbers 26:3 And Moses and Eleazar the priest spoke with them in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying,

Numbers 33:50 And the LORD spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying,

Numbers 35:1 And the LORD spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying,

Thus terminates the book of Numbers; a book containing a series of the most astonishing providences and events. Every where and in every circumstance God appears; and yet there is no circumstance or occasion which does not justify those signal displays of his grace and mercy; and in every relation we perceive the consistency of the divine intentions, and the propriety of those laws which he established.