1 And the chief fathers of families of the sons 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 chief fathers of the children of Israel: 2 and they said, Jehovah commanded my lord to give the land for an inheritance by lot to the children of Israel; and my lord was commanded by Jehovah to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother to his daughters. 3 Now 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 added to the inheritance of the tribe to which they shall belong; and it shall be taken from the lot of our inheritance. 4 And when the jubilee of the children of Israel shall come, then shall their inheritance be added to the inheritance of the tribe to which they shall belong; and their inheritance shall 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 Jehovah, saying, The tribe of the sons of Joseph hath said well. 6 This is the thing which Jehovah hath commanded concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, Let them marry whom they please; only they shall marry one of the tribe of their father, 7 that no inheritance of the children of Israel pass from tribe to tribe; for every one of the children of Israel shall keep to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers. 8 And every daughter that possesseth an inheritance among the tribes of the children of Israel, shall be married to one of the family of the tribe of her father, that the children of Israel may possess every one the inheritance of his fathers, 9 and the inheritance shall not pass from one tribe to another tribe; for each of the tribes of the children of Israel shall keep to his inheritance. 10 Even as Jehovah had commanded Moses, so did the daughters of Zelophehad; 11 and Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married unto their uncles' sons. 12 To those that were of the families of the sons of Manasseh the son of Joseph were they married; and their inheritance remained in the tribe of the family of their father. 13 These are the commandments and the ordinances which Jehovah commanded through Moses to the children of Israel, in the plains of Moab, by the Jordan of Jericho.
Numbers 36 Darby Translation
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Gilead
The son of Machir son of Manasseh and the ancestor of the Gileadite clans, whose sons are listed in Numbers 26.
Cited in the guide: Numbers 26:29–30; Numbers 27:1; Numbers 36:1
Hoglah
One of the five daughters of Zelophehad who asked Moses for their father's inheritance, which the LORD granted, and who married cousins on their father's side.
Cited in the guide: Numbers 26:33; Numbers 27:1; Numbers 36:11
Mahlah
One of the five daughters of Zelophehad who asked Moses for their father's inheritance, which the LORD granted, and who married cousins on their father's side.
Cited in the guide: Numbers 26:33; Numbers 27:1; Numbers 36:11
Milcah
One of the five daughters of Zelophehad who asked Moses for their father's inheritance, which the LORD granted, and who married cousins on their father's side.
Cited in the guide: Numbers 26:33; Numbers 27:1; Numbers 36:11
Moses
Drawn from the Nile, he led Israel out of Egypt and received God's Law.
Cited in the guide: Exodus 2–Deuteronomy 34
Noah
One of the five daughters of Zelophehad who asked Moses for their father's inheritance, which the LORD granted, and who married cousins on their father's side.
Cited in the guide: Numbers 26:33; Numbers 27:1; Numbers 36:11
Tirzah
One of the five daughters of Zelophehad who asked Moses for their father's inheritance, which the LORD granted, and who married cousins on their father's side.
Cited in the guide: Numbers 26:33; Numbers 27:1; Numbers 36:11
Cross references (10)
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- 1 Numbers 27:1; Joshua 17:2–3; Numbers 26:29–33; 1 Chronicles 7:14–16
- 2 Numbers 33:54; Joshua 17:3–6; Numbers 27:1–7; Joshua 13:6; Joshua 14:1–2
- 4 Isaiah 61:2; Leviticus 25:10–18; Leviticus 25:23; Luke 4:18–19
- 5 Numbers 27:7; Deuteronomy 5:28
- 6 Numbers 36:12; 2 Corinthians 6:14; Genesis 24:3; Genesis 24:57–58
- 7 1 Kings 21:3; Numbers 36:9
- 8 1 Chronicles 23:22
- 10 Exodus 39:42–43; Leviticus 24:23; Matthew 28:20; 2 Chronicles 30:12
- 11 Numbers 27:1; Numbers 26:33
- 13 Leviticus 27:34; Leviticus 26:46; Numbers 22:1; Leviticus 15:32–33; Leviticus 13:59
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As, for instance, Adam says, "I have gotten a man through God," meaning to say the same as from God; and in another passage "Moses commanded...Israel through the word of the Lord," and, again, "Is not the interpretation through God?" Joseph, discoursing about dreams to the prisoners, instead of saying "from God" says plainly "through God." Inversely Paul uses the …
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