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1 Then the leaders of the ancestors' families of the clan of Gilead son of Machir (who was Manasseh's son), who were from the clans of the descendants of Joseph, came and spoke before Moses and before the leaders who were the heads of the ancestor's families of the people of Israel.
1 The heads of the fathers’ households of the family of the children 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 heads of the fathers’ households of the children of Israel.
2 They said, “Yahweh commanded you, our master, to give a share of land by lot to the people of Israel. You were commanded by Yahweh to give the share of Zelophehad our brother to his daughters.
2 They said, “Yahweh commanded my lord to give the land for inheritance by lot to the children of Israel. My lord was commanded by Yahweh to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother to his daughters.
3 But if his daughters marry men in another tribe of the people of Israel, then their share of land will be removed from our ancestor's share. It will be added to the share of the tribes that they join. In that case, it will be removed from the assigned share of our inheritance.
3 If they are married to any of the sons of the other tribes of the children of Israel, then their inheritance will be taken away from the inheritance of our fathers, and will be added to the inheritance of the tribe to which they shall belong. So it will be taken away from the lot of our inheritance.
4 In that case, when the year of Jubilee of the people of Israel comes, then their share will be joined to the share of the tribe that they have joined. In this way, their share will be taken away from the share of our ancestors' tribe.”
4 When the jubilee of the children of Israel comes, then their inheritance will be added to the inheritance of the tribe to which they shall belong. So their inheritance will be taken away from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers.”
5 So Moses gave a command to the people of Israel, at Yahweh's word. He said, “What the tribe of Joseph's descendants says is right.
5 Moses commanded the children of Israel according to Yahweh’s word, saying, “The tribe of the sons of Joseph speak what is right.
6 This is what Yahweh commands concerning Zelophehad's daughters. He says, 'Let them be married to whom they think best, but they must marry only within the family of their father's tribe.'
6 This is the thing which Yahweh commands concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, ‘Let them be married to whom they think best, only they shall marry into the family of the tribe of their father.
7 No share of the people of Israel must change from one tribe to another. Each one of the people of Israel must continue with the share of his ancestor's tribe.
7 So shall no inheritance of the children of Israel move from tribe to tribe; for the children of Israel shall all keep the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.
8 Every woman of the people of Israel who owns a share in her tribe must marry someone from the clans belonging to her father's tribe. This is so that everyone of the people of Israel may own an inheritance from his ancestors.
8 Every daughter who possesses an inheritance in any tribe of the children of Israel shall be wife to one of the family of the tribe of her father, that the children of Israel may each possess the inheritance of his fathers.
9 No share may change hands from one tribe to another. Everyone of the tribes of the people of Israel must keep his own inheritance.”
9 So shall no inheritance move from one tribe to another tribe; for the tribes of the children of Israel shall each keep his own inheritance.’”
10 So Zelophehad's daughters did as Yahweh had commanded Moses.
10 The daughters of Zelophehad did as Yahweh commanded Moses:
11 Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milkah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, married descendants of Manasseh.
11 for Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married to their father’s brothers’ sons.
12 They married into the clans of the descendants of Manasseh son of Joseph. In this way, their inheritances remained in the tribe to which their father's clan belonged.
12 They were married into the families of the sons of Manasseh the son of Joseph. Their inheritance remained in the tribe of the family of their father.
13 These are the commands and the decrees that Yahweh gave by Moses to the people of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.
13 These are the commandments and the ordinances which Yahweh commanded by Moses to the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.

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  • Gilead

    Son of Machir; Manassite clan head

    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

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  • Hoglah

    Daughter of Zelophehad

    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

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  • Mahlah

    Daughter of Zelophehad

    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

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  • Moses

    Deliverer and lawgiver

    Drawn from the Nile, he led Israel out of Egypt and received God's Law.

    Cited in the guide: Exodus 2–Deuteronomy 34

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  • Noah

    Daughter of Zelophehad

    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

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  • Tirzah

    Daughter of Zelophehad

    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

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Cross references (10)

Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.

  1. 1 Numbers 27:1; Joshua 17:2–3; Numbers 26:29–33; 1 Chronicles 7:14–16
  2. 2 Numbers 33:54; Joshua 17:3–6; Numbers 27:1–7; Joshua 13:6; Joshua 14:1–2
  3. 4 Isaiah 61:2; Leviticus 25:10–18; Leviticus 25:23; Luke 4:18–19
  4. 5 Numbers 27:7; Deuteronomy 5:28
  5. 6 Numbers 36:12; 2 Corinthians 6:14; Genesis 24:3; Genesis 24:57–58
  6. 7 1 Kings 21:3; Numbers 36:9
  7. 8 1 Chronicles 23:22
  8. 10 Exodus 39:42–43; Leviticus 24:23; Matthew 28:20; 2 Chronicles 30:12
  9. 11 Numbers 27:1; Numbers 26:33
  10. 13 Leviticus 27:34; Leviticus 26:46; Numbers 22:1; Leviticus 15:32–33; Leviticus 13:59

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  1. Quotes verse 36:5 Basil of Caesarea, On the Holy Spirit (Chapter V)

    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 …

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 8 (1895)