| 1 And the heads of the fathers' houses of the family 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 heads of the fathers' houses of the children of Israel:
2 and they said, Jehovah commanded my lord to give the land for
inheritance by lot to the children of Israel: and my lord was commanded by
Jehovah 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 will their inheritance be taken away from the
inheritance of our fathers, and will be added to the inheritance of the tribe
whereunto they shall belong: so will it be taken away from the lot of our
inheritance. 4 And when the jubilee of the children of Israel shall be,
then will their inheritance be added unto the inheritance of the tribe
whereunto they shall belong: so will 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
Jehovah, saying, The tribe of the sons of Joseph speaketh right. 6 This is
the thing which Jehovah doth command concerning the daughters of Zelophehad,
saying, Let them be married to whom they think best; only into the family of
the tribe of their father shall they be married. 7 So shall no inheritance
of the children of Israel remove from tribe to tribe; for the children of
Israel shall cleave every one 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 possess every man the inheritance of
his fathers. 9 So shall no inheritance remove from one tribe to another
tribe; for the tribes of the children of Israel shall cleave every one to his
own inheritance.
10 Even as Jehovah 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 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 ordinances which Jehovah commanded
by Moses unto the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at
Jericho.
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