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And they said, “Yahweh commanded my lord to give the land by lot as an inheritance to the Israelites,[a] and my lord was commanded by Yahweh to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother to his daughters. But if they become wives to one of the sons from another tribe of the Israelites,[b] their inheritance will disappear from the inheritance of our ancestors,[c] and it will be added to the inheritance of the tribe to which they belong; the lot of our inheritance would disappear. When the Jubilee of the Israelites[d] comes,[e] it will be added to the inheritance of the tribe to which they belong; and their inheritance will disappear from the tribe of our father.”

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 36:2 Literally “sons/children of Israel”
  2. Numbers 36:3 Literally “sons/children of Israel”
  3. Numbers 36:3 Or “fathers”
  4. Numbers 36:4 Literally “sons/children of Israel”
  5. Numbers 36:4 Literally “will be”