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Marriage: The Jews: Often Contracted, in Their own Tribe

Source: TTT

Exodus 2:1 Now a man of the house of Levi married a daughter of Levi,
Numbers 36:6–13 This is what the LORD has commanded concerning the daughters of Zelophehad: They may marry anyone they please, provided they marry within a clan of the tribe of their father. / 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. / Every daughter who possesses an inheritance from any Israelite tribe must marry within a clan of the tribe of her father, so that every Israelite will possess the inheritance of his fathers.
Luke 1:5, 27 In the time of Herod king of Judea there was a priest named Zechariah, who belonged to the priestly division of Abijah, and whose wife Elizabeth was a daughter of Aaron. / to a virgin pledged in marriage to a man named Joseph, who was of the house of David. And the virgin’s name was Mary.