1 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, and spake before Moses, and before the princes, the chief
fathers of the children of Israel:
2 And
they said, The LORD commanded my lord to give the land for an inheritance 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 And
if they be married to any of the sons of the other tribes of the children of Israel, then
shall their inheritance be taken from the inheritance of our fathers, and shall
be put to the inheritance of the tribe whereunto they are received: so shall it
be taken from the lot of our inheritance.
4 And
when the jubile of the children of Israel shall be, then shall their
inheritance be put unto the inheritance of the tribe whereunto they are
received: so shall their inheritance be taken away from the inheritance of the
tribe of our fathers.
5 And
Moses commanded the children of Israel according to the word of the LORD,
saying, The tribe of the sons of Joseph hath said well.
6 This is the
thing which the LORD doth command concerning the daughters of Zelophehad,
saying, Let them marry 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 keep himself to the inheritance
of the tribe of his fathers.
8 And
every daughter, that possesseth 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 enjoy every man the inheritance of his fathers.
9 Neither
shall the inheritance remove from one tribe to another tribe; but every one
of the tribes of the children of Israel shall keep himself to his own
inheritance.
10 Even
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 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.
13 These are the
commandments and the judgments, which the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses
unto the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho.
