Numbers 36

1 The leaders of the ancestral families of the descendants of Gilead, who were descendants of Machir, and descendants of Manasseh, from Joseph’s tribe, approached and spoke to Moses and the leaders of the ancestral houses ^{a36:1 Lit. the fathers} of the Israelis.ISV — Numbers 36:1

2 “The LORD commanded my master ^{b36:2 Or lord} to apportion the land as an inheritance by lot to the Israelis,” they said. “Now my master was ordered by the LORD to give the inheritance of our brother Zelophehad to his daughters.ISV — Numbers 36:2

3 But when they get married to one of the descendants of the tribes of Israel, their inheritances are to be withdrawn from our father’s inheritance and added to the inheritance of the tribe to which they are to belong. Consequently, it is to be withdrawn from the portion of our inheritance.ISV — Numbers 36:3

4 Then, when the Jubilee Year of the Israelis comes, their inheritance will be added to the inheritance of the tribe to which they have come to belong. Their inheritance will thus be taken away from the inheritance of our father’s tribe!”ISV — Numbers 36:4

5 So Moses issued the Israelis these orders based on what the LORD said: “The tribe of the descendants of Joseph has spoken.ISV — Numbers 36:5

6 This is what the LORD is commanding the daughters of Zelophehad: If they decide it’s a good idea in their opinion ^{c36:6 Lit. eyes} to get married only within the family of their father’s tribe, then let them get marriedISV — Numbers 36:6

7 so that the inheritance of the Israelis won’t be turned over ^{d36:7 Lit. turned aside} from one tribe to another. Each one has an inheritance from his own father’s tribe that the Israelis are to maintain.ISV — Numbers 36:7

8 Every daughter who is in possession of an inheritance from the Israelis is to marry someone from the families within her father’s tribe so the Israelis can retain possession of their ancestral inheritance.ISV — Numbers 36:8

9 That way, their inheritance won’t be turned over from one tribe to another, because the Israelis are each to maintain their ancestral inheritances.”ISV — Numbers 36:9

10 Zelophehad’s daughters did just what the LORD had commanded MosesISV — Numbers 36:10

11 for Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Noah: Zelophehad’s daughters married their uncle’s sons.ISV — Numbers 36:11

12 They married ^{e36:12 Lit. became wives} into families of the descendants of Manasseh, that is, Joseph’s descendants, so that their inheritance remained within the tribe of their ancestor’s family.ISV — Numbers 36:12

13 These were the commands and the ordinances that the LORD issued to the Israelis through Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan River in Jericho.ISV — Numbers 36:13