| 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. |
| 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 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
judgments, which the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses unto the children of
Israel in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho. |
