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Chapter 36 |
| 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 jubilee 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. |
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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. |
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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: |
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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. |
