The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Numbers 36
1 The heads of the fathers’ households
of the family of the children of Gilead, the
son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the
families of the sons of Joseph, came near
and spoke before Moses and before the
princes, the heads of the fathers’ households of the children of Israel.
2 They said, “Yahweh commanded my
lord to give the land for inheritance by
lot to the children of Israel. My lord was
commanded by Yahweh to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother to his
daughters.
3 If they are married to any of the sons
of the other tribes of the children of Israel,
then their inheritance will be taken away
from the inheritance of our fathers, and
will be added to the inheritance ofthe tribe
to which they shall belong. So it will be
taken away from the lot of our inheritance.
4 When the jubilee of the children of
Israel comes, then their inheritance will
be added to the inheritance of the tribe to
which they shall belong. So their inheritance will be taken away from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers.”
5 Moses commanded the children of Israel according to Yahweh’s word, saying,
“The tribe of the sons of Joseph speak what
is right.
6 This is the thing which Yahweh
commands concerning the daughters of
Zelophehad, saying,‘Let them be married
to whom they think best, only they shall
marry into the family of the tribe of their
father.
7 So shall no inheritance of the children
of Israel move from tribe to tribe; for the
children of Israel shall all keep the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.
8 Every daughter who possesses an inheritance in any tribe of the children of
Israel shall be wife to one of the family of
the tribe of her father, that the children of
Israel may each possess the inheritance of
his fathers.
9 So shall no inheritance move from one
tribe to another tribe; for the tribes of the
children of Israel shall each keep his own
inheritance.
10 The daughters of Zelophehad did as
Yahweh commanded Moses:
11 for Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah,
and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad,
were married to their father’s brothers’ sons.
12 They were married into the families
of the sons of Manasseh the son of Joseph.
Their inheritance remained in the tribe of
the family of their father.
13These are the commandments and the
ordinances which Yahweh commanded by
Moses to the children ofIsrael in the plains
of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.