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Our father died in the wilderness, and he was not among the company of those who gathered themselves together against Yahweh in the company of Korah: but he died in his own sin; and he had no sons.
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A Legal Distinction
Commentators explain that when the daughters said their father "died in his own sin," they were making a crucial legal point. They were distinguishing his personal sin (likely the collective unbelief of his generation) from a public, rebellious act like Korah's. This meant his punishment was personal and should not result in his children being disinherited from the Promised Land.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
But died in his own sin — that is, perished under the general sentence of exclusion from the land of promise passed on all the older generat…
16th Century
Protestant
Our father died in the wilderness. The plea they allege is not a contemptible one, that is, that their father died after God had called Hi…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Our father died in the wilderness As all the generation of the children of Israel did, that came out of Egypt, who were t…
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