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Numbers 36 :: New International Version (NIV)

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Inheritance of Zelophehad’s Daughters

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:1 - The family heads of the clan of Gilead son of Makir, the son of Manasseh, who were from the clans of the descendants of Joseph, came and spoke before Moses and the leaders, the heads of the Israelite families.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:2 - They said, “When the LORD commanded my lord to give the land as an inheritance to the Israelites by lot, he ordered you to give the inheritance of our brother Zelophehad to his daughters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:3 - Now suppose they marry men from other Israelite tribes; then their inheritance will be taken from our ancestral inheritance and added to that of the tribe they marry into. And so part of the inheritance allotted to us will be taken away.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:4 - When the Year of Jubilee for the Israelites comes, their inheritance will be added to that of the tribe into which they marry, and their property will be taken from the tribal inheritance of our ancestors.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:5 - Then at the LORD’s command Moses gave this order to the Israelites: “What the tribe of the descendants of Joseph is saying is right.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:6 - This is what the LORD commands for Zelophehad’s daughters: They may marry anyone they please as long as they marry within their father’s tribal clan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:7 - No inheritance in Israel is to pass from one tribe to another, for every Israelite shall keep the tribal inheritance of their ancestors.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:8 - Every daughter who inherits land in any Israelite tribe must marry someone in her father’s tribal clan, so that every Israelite will possess the inheritance of their ancestors.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:9 - No inheritance may pass from one tribe to another, for each Israelite tribe is to keep the land it inherits.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:10 - So Zelophehad’s daughters did as the LORD commanded Moses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:11 - Zelophehad’s daughters—Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milkah and Noah—married their cousins on their father’s side.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:12 - They married within the clans of the descendants of Manasseh son of Joseph, and their inheritance remained in their father’s tribe and clan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:13 - These are the commands and regulations the LORD gave through Moses to the Israelites on the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho.
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