12 occurrences

'Father's' in the Bible

And to give you help, take one man from every tribe, the head of his father's house.

And they got together all the people on the first day of the second month; and everyone made clear his family and his father's house, by the number of the names, from twenty years old and over.

Verse ConceptsCongregationAssembling IsraelMonth 2Family First

Say to the children of Israel that they are to give you rods, one for every family, for every chief, the head of his father's house, making twelve rods; let every man's name be placed on his rod.

Verse ConceptsAlmondsThe Number TwelveTwelve Things

And the Lord said to Aaron, You and your sons and your father's family are to be responsible for all wrongdoing in relation to the holy place: and you and your sons are to be responsible for the errors which come about in your work as priests.

Verse ConceptsAaron, Priestly ResponsibilitiesOffencePriesthood, In OtFathers Responsibilitiesconnection

Why is the name of our father to be taken away from among his family, because he had no son? Give us a heritage among our father's brothers.

Verse ConceptsNames Blotted Out

What the daughters of Zelophehad say is right: certainly you are to give them a heritage among their father's brothers: and let the property which would have been their father's go to them.

Verse ConceptsHeredityFathers And Daughters

And if he has no brothers, then give his heritage to his father's brothers.

This is the order of the Lord about the daughters of Zelophehad: The Lord says, Let them take as their husbands whoever is most pleasing to them, but only among the family of their father's tribe.

Verse ConceptsLimitednessFather And Daughter RelationshipsFathers And Daughters

And so no property will be handed from tribe to tribe among the children of Israel; but every one of the children of Israel will keep the heritage of his father's tribe.

Verse ConceptsReal Estate

And every daughter owning property in any tribe of the children of Israel is to be married to one of the family of her father's tribe, so that every man of the children of Israel may keep the heritage of his fathers.

Verse Conceptsethics, personalIntermarriageFathers And Daughters

For Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, took as their husbands the sons of their father's brothers:

Verse ConceptsCousins

And were married into the families of the sons of Manasseh, the son of Joseph, and their property was kept in the tribe of their father's family

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