Quotes about Ancestry

If he has no daughter, give his inheritance to his brothers.

And you are to divide the land by lot according to your clans. Give a larger inheritance to a larger clan and a smaller inheritance to a smaller one. Whatever falls to each one by lot will be his. You will receive an inheritance according to the tribes of your fathers.

Elidad son of Chislon from the tribe of Benjamin;

No inheritance in Israel may be transferred from tribe to tribe, because each of the Israelites is to retain the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.

No inheritance may be transferred from one tribe to another, for each tribe of Israel must retain its inheritance.”

Because He loved your fathers, He chose their descendants after them and brought you out of Egypt by His presence and great power,

And when the LORD your God brings you into the land He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, that He would give you—a land with great and splendid cities that you did not build,

No one of illegitimate birth may enter the assembly of the LORD, nor may any of his descendants, even to the tenth generation.

and you are to declare before the LORD your God, “My father was a wandering Aramean, and he went down to Egypt few in number and lived there and became a great nation, mighty and numerous.

Remember the days of old; consider the years long past. Ask your father, and he will tell you, your elders, and they will inform you.

This was the inheritance of the clans of the Gadites, including the cities and villages.

This is the inheritance of the clans of the tribe of Judah.