Commentary for Bava Batra 222:15

ואומר (דברי הימים א ב, כב) ושגוב הוליד את יאיר ויהי לו עשרים ושלש ערים בארץ הגלעד

Furthermore, it is said. So shall no inheritance of the children of Israel remove from tribe to tribe.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ibid. 7. ');">⁴²</span> Furthermore, it is said. So shall no inheritance remove from one tribe to another tribe.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ibid. 9. ');">⁴³</span> Furthermore it is said, And Eleazar the son of Aaron died; and they buried him it, the Hill of Phinehas his son.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Josh. XXIV, 33. ');">⁴⁴</span> Whence could Phinehas possess [a hill] which did not belong to Eleazar?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Phinehas was the son of Eleazar from whom he would presumably inherit after his death. How, then, did Phinehas possess a hill at the very moment his father died? ');">⁴⁵</span> But this<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The mention of a hill that belonged to Phinehas. ');">⁴⁶</span> teaches that Phinehas took a wife who died, and he was her heir. Furthermore it is said, And Segub begat Jair, who had three and twenty cities in the land of Gilead.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I Chron. II, 22. ');">⁴⁷</span>

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