Num 36
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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 spoke before Moses, and before the princes, the heads of the fathers` [houses]
of the children of Israel:
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and they said, YHWH commanded my lord to give the land for inheritance by lot to the
children of Israel: and my lord was commanded by YHWH to give the inheritance of Zelophehad
our brother to his daughters.
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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 to which they shall belong: so will
it be taken away from the lot of our inheritance.
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And when the jubilee of the children of Israel shall be, then will their inheritance
be added to the inheritance of the tribe to which they shall belong: so will their
inheritance be taken away from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers.
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And Moses commanded the children of Israel according to the word of YHWH, saying,
The tribe of the sons of Joseph speaks right.
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This is the thing which YHWH does 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.
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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.
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And every daughter, that possesses an inheritance in any tribe of the children of
Israel, shall be wife to one of the family of the tribe of her father, that the children
of Israel may possess every man the inheritance of his fathers.
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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.
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Even as YHWH commanded Moses, so did the daughters of Zelophehad:
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for Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad,
were married to their father`s brothers` sons.
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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.
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These are the commandments and the ordinances which YHWH commanded by Moses to the
children of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.