Numbers 36

1Then the heads of the fathers’ houses of the clan of the sons of Gilead son of Machir, son of Manasseh, from the clans of the sons of Joseph, came near and spoke before Moses and before the leaders, the heads of the fathers’ houses of the sons of Israel.

2And they said, “Yahweh commanded my lord to give the land as an inheritance by lot to the sons of Israel, and my lord was commanded by Yahweh to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother to his daughters.”

3And if they become wives to one of the sons of the tribes of the sons of Israel, then their inheritance will be taken away from the inheritance of our fathers and added to the inheritance of the tribe to which they belong, and it will be taken away from the allotted portion of our inheritance.

4And when the Jubilee comes for the sons of Israel, their inheritance will be added to the inheritance of the tribe to which they belong, and their inheritance will be taken away from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers.

5So Moses commanded the sons of Israel according to the word of Yahweh, saying, “The tribe of the sons of Joseph is speaking rightly.”

6This is the word that Yahweh has commanded concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, ‘Let them become wives to whomever seems good in their eyes; only they must become wives within the family of the tribe of their father.’

7So no inheritance of the sons of Israel shall pass from tribe to tribe, for the sons of Israel shall each hold fast to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.

8And every daughter who possesses an inheritance from the tribes of the sons of Israel shall become the wife of one from the clan of her father's tribe, so that the sons of Israel may each possess the inheritance of his fathers.

9No inheritance shall pass from one tribe to another tribe, for each of the tribes of the sons of Israel shall hold fast to its own inheritance.

10Just as Yahweh had commanded Moses, so the daughters of Zelophehad did.

11Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, became wives of the sons of their uncles.

12They became wives to the clans of the sons of Manasseh son of Joseph, and their inheritance remained with the tribe of the clan of their father.

13These are the commandments and the judgments that Yahweh commanded through Moses to the sons of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.