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Numbers chapter 36 verse 6.

This is what the Lord commands concerning the daughters of Zilofahad.

Let them marry whom they think best.

Only they shall marry within the clan of the tribe of their father. Now we're at the end of the Book of Numbers and this is obviously a specific stipulation, instruction

given to a particular family and clan in light of specific circumstances in the Old

Testament.

So there are all kinds of reasons why this does not, like we don't directly say this today in the new covenant in our lives but

the picture here is clear that God speaks about how marriages should be formed.

God speaks about how families should be formed.

And we families should be formed.

And we must listen to God.

God speaks about what marriage should look like.

Probably the most clear, concise, yet comprehensive picture

of this and all the Bible is Ephesians 5, 22 through 33, and every husband and wife should

study, meditate on, learn, maybe even memorize that passage backwards and forwards,

because that is God's clear instruction for marriage.

Then right after that we see in Ephesion 6,

the first few verses of that chapter,

God's instructions about parenting.

There's other places in scripture that speak to parenting as well.

Other places in scripture that speak to family,

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