[Avodah] Bnot tzlafchad

[Zev Sero]

On 19/07/2012 12:16 AM, Liron Kopinsky wrote:
>
>     In any case, Benos Tzelafchad ended up marrying "livnei doeihen
>     lenashim. Mimishpechos benei Menasheh ben Yoseif hayu lenashim." (Bamidbar
>     36:11-12) Is it possible that peshat here is that the girls didn't inded
>     want to settle, and thus married from [the other] families of Menasheh,
>     ones that got land from the territory promised to the Avos?
>
> Like RZS said, dodeihin literally would mean they were still in the family of Machir. That begs the question with what the 2nd pasuk quoted above is coming to tell us though.

They did what they were commanded (married within the tribe), and more:
they married within the clan.

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