Chapter 36
1The 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:
2and they said, Yahweh commanded my lord to give the land for inheritance
by lot to the children of Israel: and my lord was commanded by Yahweh to give
the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother to his daughters.
3If 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.
4When the jubilee of the children of Israel shall be, then will their
inheritance be added to 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.
5Moses commanded the children of Israel according
to the word of Yahweh, saying, The tribe of the sons of Joseph speaks right.
6This is the thing which Yahweh 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.
7So shall
no inheritance of the children of Israel remove from tribe to tribe; for the
children of Israel shall cleave everyone to the inheritance of the tribe of
his fathers.
8Every daughter, who 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.
9So shall no inheritance remove from one tribe to another
tribe; for the tribes of the children of Israel shall cleave everyone to his
own inheritance.
10Even as Yahweh commanded Moses, so did the daughters
of Zelophehad:
11for Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Noah,
the daughters of Zelophehad, were married to their father’s brothers’ sons.
12They 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.
13These are the commandments and the ordinances which Yahweh
commanded by Moses to the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by the
Jordan at Jericho.
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