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 Eleazar the priest, and before the princes, the chief fathers of the houses of the families 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 they will become wives in one of the tribes
of the children of Israel. 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 [a release] of the
children of Israel shall be, then shall their inheritance be put unto the
inheritance of the tribe whereunto they are received [into which the women marry]: 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 they to 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 ordinances, and
the judgments, which the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses unto the children
of Israel in the plains of Moab [at the
west of Moab] by Jordan near Jericho.
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