Chapter 36

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,⁴ and spake¹⁷ before Moses, and before the princes, the chief fathers of the children of Israel:

And they said,⁴ The LORD commanded¹⁴ my lord to give² the land for an inheritance by lot to the children of Israel: and my lord was commanded²⁷ by the LORD to give² the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother unto his daughters.

And if they be married to any of the sons of the [other] tribes of the children of Israel, then shall their inheritance be taken⁸ from the inheritance of our fathers, and shall be put⁸ to the inheritance of the tribe whereunto they are received: so shall it be taken¹¹ from the lot of our inheritance.

And when the jubile of the children of Israel shall be, then shall their inheritance be put⁸ unto the inheritance of the tribe whereunto they are received: so shall their inheritance be taken away¹¹ from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers.

And Moses commanded¹⁷ the children of Israel according to the word of the LORD, saying,² The tribe of the sons of Joseph hath said⁶ well.

This [is] the thing which the LORD doth command¹⁴ concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying,² Let them marry to whom they think best; only to the family of the tribe of their father shall they marry.

So shall not the inheritance of the children of Israel remove¹¹ from tribe to tribe: for every one of the children of Israel shall keep⁴ himself to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.

And every daughter, that possesseth⁶ 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 enjoy⁴ every man the inheritance of his fathers.

Neither shall the inheritance remove¹¹ from [one] tribe to another tribe; but every one of the tribes of the children of Israel shall keep⁴ himself to his own inheritance.

Even as the LORD commanded¹⁴ Moses, so did¹ the daughters of Zelophehad:

For Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married unto their father's brothers' sons:

[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.

These [are] the commandments and the judgments, which the LORD commanded¹⁴ by the hand of Moses unto the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by Jordan [near] Jericho.