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Numbers 36 :: New American Standard Bible 2020 (NASB20)

Inheritance by Marriage

Num 36:1

Now the heads of the fathers’ households of the family of the sons of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of the sons of Joseph, came forward and spoke before Moses and before the leaders, the heads of the fathers’ households of the sons of Israel,

Num 36:2and they said, “The LORD commanded my lord to give the land by lot to the sons of Israel as an inheritance, and my lord was commanded by the LORD to give the inheritance of our brother Zelophehad to his daughters.
Num 36:3“But if they [fn]marry one of the sons of the other tribes of the sons of Israel, their inheritance will be withdrawn from the inheritance of our fathers and will be added to the inheritance of the tribe to which they belong; so it will be withdrawn from our allotted inheritance.
Num 36:4“And when the jubilee of the sons of Israel takes place, then their inheritance will be added to the inheritance of the tribe to which they belong; so their inheritance will be withdrawn from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers.”
Num 36:5

Then Moses commanded the sons of Israel in accordance with the [fn]word of the LORD, saying, “The tribe of the sons of Joseph is right in its statements.

Num 36:6“This is [fn]what the LORD has commanded regarding the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, ‘Let them marry [fn]whomever they wish; only they must marry within the family of the tribe of their father.’
Num 36:7“So no inheritance of the sons of Israel will [fn]be transferred from tribe to tribe, for the sons of Israel shall each [fn]retain possession of the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.
Num 36:8“And every daughter who comes into possession of an inheritance of any tribe of the sons of Israel shall marry one of the family of the tribe of her father, so that the sons of Israel may each possess the inheritance of his fathers.
Num 36:9“So no inheritance will [fn]be transferred from one tribe to another tribe, for the tribes of the sons of Israel shall each [fn]retain possession of its own inheritance.”
Num 36:10

Just as the LORD had commanded Moses, so the daughters of Zelophehad did:

Num 36:11Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad married their uncles’ sons.
Num 36:12They married those from the families of the sons of Manasseh the son of Joseph, and their inheritance [fn]remained with the tribe of the family of their father.
Num 36:13

These are the commandments and the ordinances which the LORD commanded to the sons of Israel through Moses in the plains of Moab, by the Jordan opposite Jericho.

NASB20 Footnotes
Lit become wives to, and so throughout the ch
Lit mouth
Lit the word which
Lit the good one in their eyes
Lit turn about
Lit cling to
Lit turn about
Lit cling to
Lit was to the
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