“1 And the chief fathers of the families of the children of Gilead,
the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of the sons of
Joseph, came near, and spake before Moses, and before the princes, the
chief fathers of the children of Israel: 2 And they said, The LORD
commanded my lord to give the land for an inheritance by lot to the
children of Israel: and my lord was commanded by the LORD to give the
inheritance of Zelophehad our brother unto his daughters. 3 And if they
be married to any of the sons of the [other] tribes of the children of
Israel, then shall their inheritance be taken from the inheritance of
our fathers, and shall be put to the inheritance of the tribe whereunto
they are received: so shall it be taken from the lot of our inheritance.
4 And when the jubile of the children of Israel shall be, then shall
their inheritance be put unto the inheritance of the tribe whereunto
they are received: so shall their inheritance be taken away from the
inheritance of the tribe of our fathers.”
“5 And Moses commanded the children of Israel according to the word of
the LORD, saying, The tribe of the sons of Joseph hath said well. 6 This
[is] the thing which the LORD doth command concerning the daughters of
Zelophehad, saying, Let them marry to whom they think best; only to the
family of the tribe of their father shall they marry. 7 So shall not the
inheritance of the children of Israel remove from tribe to tribe: for
every one of the children of Israel shall keep himself to the
inheritance of the tribe of his fathers. 8 And every daughter, that
possesseth an inheritance in any tribe of the children of Israel, shall
be wife unto one of the family of the tribe of her father, that the
children of Israel may enjoy every man the inheritance of his fathers. 9
Neither shall the inheritance remove from [one] tribe to another tribe;
but every one of the tribes of the children of Israel shall keep himself
to his own inheritance. 10 Even as the LORD commanded Moses, so did the
daughters of Zelophehad: 11 For Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milcah,
and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married unto their father’s
brothers’ sons: 12 [And] they were married into the families of the sons
of Manasseh the son of Joseph, and their inheritance remained in the
tribe of the family of their father. 13 These [are] the commandments and
the judgments, which the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses unto the
children of Israel in the plains of Moab by Jordan [near] Jericho.” (Nu
36:1-13 AV)
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