1 Entonces los dirigentes del subclan de Galaad (el clan de Maquir, de la tribu de Manasés, uno de los hijos de José) vinieron a Moisés ante los jefes de Israel con una petición: 2 ―El Señor dio orden de repartir la tierra por sorteo entre el pueblo de Israel —le recordaron a Moisés—, y que se diera la heredad de nuestro hermano Zelofejad a sus hijas. 3 Pero si ellas se casan en otra tribu, la tierra de ellas pasará a la tribu de su marido. De esta manera nuestra tierra se verá reducida, 4 y no regresará a nosotros en el año del jubileo. 5 Moisés contestó públicamente, dando estas órdenes de parte del Señor: ―Los hombres de la tribu de José tienen una queja justa. 6 Esto es lo que el Señor ha ordenado acerca de las hijas de Zelofejad: 7 Pueden casarse con quienes quieran, siempre que sea dentro de su tribu. De esta manera, ninguna parte de la tierra de su tribu pasará a otra tribu, ya que la tierra debe pertenecer permanentemente a la tribu a la que fue asignada en el principio. 8 Las jóvenes de las tribus de Israel que pertenezcan a una familia que esté sin heredero varón, deberán casarse dentro de su propia tribu, para que la tierra no salga de la tribu. 9 De este modo, la tierra no pasará de una tribu a otra». 10 Las hijas de Zelofejad hicieron lo que el Señor le había ordenado a Moisés. 11 Estas eran: Majlá, Tirsá, Joglá, Milca y Noa, y se casaron con hombres de su propia tribu de Manasés (hijo de José). 12 De este modo la tierra de ellas permaneció en la tribu. 13 Estos son los mandamientos y las ordenanzas que el Señor le dio al pueblo de Israel por medio de Moisés, mientras estaban acampados en las llanuras de Moab junto al río Jordán, frente a Jericó.
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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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