36The leaders^a of the families^b of the clans of descendants^c of Gilead the son of Makir, the son of Manasseh, of the clans of the descendants^d of Joseph came near and spoke before^e Moses and before^f the leaders^g of the families^h of the Israelites.ⁱ ²And they said, “Yahweh commanded my lord to give the land by lot as an inheritance to the Israelites,^j and my lord was commanded by Yahweh to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother to his daughters. ³But if they become wives to one of the sons from another tribe of the Israelites,^k their inheritance will disappear from the inheritance of our ancestors,^l and it will be added to the inheritance of the tribe to which they belong; the lot of our inheritance would disappear. ⁴When the Jubilee of the Israelites^m comes,ⁿ it will be added to the inheritance of the tribe to which they belong; and their inheritance will disappear from the tribe of our father.”

⁵Then Moses commanded the Israelites^o by the command of Yahweh, saying, “The tribe of the descendants^p of Joseph is right regarding what they are speaking. ⁶This is the word that Yahweh commanded the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, ‘Let them marry^q whomever they like;^r only they must marry^s from within the clan of the tribe of their father. ⁷Thus an inheritance of the Israelites^t will not go around from tribe to tribe. Rather, the inheritance of each tribe of his father will remain with the Israelites.^u ⁸Every daughter who possesses an inheritance from the tribes of the Israelites^v will marry^w one of the clan of the tribe of her father, so that the Israelites^x will possess the inheritance of his ancestors.^y ⁹Therefore an inheritance will not go around from one tribe to another tribe because the tribes of the Israelites^z will each hold to their own inheritance.’ ”

¹⁰Just as Yahweh commanded to Moses, so the daughters of Zelophehad did: ¹¹Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, married^a the sons of their uncles. ¹²They married^b those from the sons of Manasseh son of Joseph, and their inheritance remained^c among the tribe of the clan of their ancestors.^d

¹³These were the commands and the stipulations that Yahweh commanded by the hand of Moses^e to the Israelites^f on the desert-plateaus of Moab by the Jordan across Jericho.

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Footnotes

aLiterally “The heads”
bOr “fathers”
cOr “sons”
dOr “sons”
eLiterally “before the face of”
fLiterally “before the face of”
gLiterally “the heads”
hHebrew “of the fathers”
iLiterally “sons/children of Israel”
jLiterally “sons/children of Israel”
kLiterally “sons/children of Israel”
lOr “fathers”
mLiterally “sons/children of Israel”
nLiterally “will be”
oLiterally “sons/children of Israel”
pOr “sons”
qLiterally “Let them be as wives”
rLiterally “they will be as the good in their eyes”
sLiterally “they must be as wives”
tLiterally “sons/children of Israel”
uLiterally “sons/children of Israel”
vLiterally “sons/children of Israel”
wLiterally “be a wife to”
xLiterally “sons/children of Israel”
yOr “fathers”
zLiterally “sons/children of Israel”
aLiterally “were as wives to”
bLiterally “They were as wives to”
cLiterally “was”
dOr “fathers”
eOr “through Moses”
fLiterally “sons/children of Israel”