| 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: |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 10: Even as the LORD commanded Moses, so did the daughters of Zelophehad:
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| 11: For Mahlal, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Noah, the daughters
of Zelophehad, were married unto their father's brothers' sons: |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
