Numbers Chapter 36

Numbers Chapter 36
1 Then the chief fathers 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, and spake
before Moses, and before the princes,
the chief fathers of the children of Israel,
2 And said, The Lord commanded my
lord to give the land to inherit 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 If they be married to any of the sons of
the other tribes of the children of Israel,
then shall their inheritance be taken
away from the inheritance of our fathers,
and shall be put unto the inheritance of
the tribe whereof they shall be: so shall
it be taken away from the lot of our
inheritance.
4 Also when the jubilee of the children
of Israel cometh, then shall their
inheritance be put unto the inheritance of
the tribe whereof they shall be: so shall
their inheritance be taken away from the
inheritance of the tribe of our fathers.
5 Then Moses commanded the children
of Israel, according to the word of the
Lord, saying, The tribe of the sons of
Joseph have said well.
6 This is the thing that the Lord hath
commanded, concerning the daughters of
Zelophehad, saying, They shall be
wives, 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 join himself to the
inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.
8 And every daughter that possesseth any
inheritance of the tribes 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 their fathers. 9 Neither
shall the inheritance go about from tribe
to tribe: but every one of the tribes of the
children of Israel shall stick to his own
inheritance. 10 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 They were wives to certain of the
families of the sons of Manasseh the son
of Joseph: so their inheritance remained
in the tribe of the family of their father.
13 These are the commandments and
laws which the Lord commanded by the
hand of Moses, unto the children of
Israel in the plain of Moab, by Jordan
toward Jericho.