[1] The heads of the fathers` [houses] 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` [houses] of the children of Israel: [2] and they
said, Yahweh commanded my lord to give the land for inheritance by lot to
the children of Israel: and my lord was commanded by Yahweh to give the
inheritance of Zelophehad our brother to his daughters. [3] If they be
married to any of the sons of the [other] tribes of the children of Israel,
then will their inheritance be taken away from the inheritance of our
fathers, and will be added to the inheritance of the tribe whereunto they
shall belong: so will it be taken away from the lot of our inheritance. [4]
When the jubilee of the children of Israel shall be, then will their
inheritance be added to the inheritance of the tribe whereunto they shall
belong: so will their inheritance be taken away from the inheritance of the
tribe of our fathers. [5] Moses commanded the children of Israel according
to the word of Yahweh, saying, The tribe of the sons of Joseph speaks
right. [6] This is the thing which Yahweh does command concerning the
daughters of Zelophehad, saying, Let them be married to whom they think
best; only into the family of the tribe of their father shall they be
married. [7] So shall no inheritance of the children of Israel remove from
tribe to tribe; for the children of Israel shall cleave everyone to the
inheritance of the tribe of his fathers. [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
possess every man the inheritance of his fathers. [9] So shall no
inheritance remove from one tribe to another tribe; for the tribes of the
children of Israel shall cleave everyone to his own inheritance. [10] Even
as Yahweh commanded Moses, so did the daughters of Zelophehad: [11] for
Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of
Zelophehad, were married to their father`s brothers` sons. [12] They were
married into the families of the sons of Manasseh the son of Joseph; and
their inheritance remained in the tribe of the family of their father. [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.
