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Numbers 36:4-6
New English Translation

4 And when the Jubilee of the Israelites is to take place,[a] their inheritance will be added to the inheritance of the tribe into which they marry. So their inheritance will be taken away from the inheritance of our ancestral tribe.”[b]

Moses’ Decision

5 Then Moses gave a ruling[c] to the Israelites by the word[d] of the Lord: “What the tribe of the Josephites is saying is right. 6 This is what[e] the Lord has commanded for Zelophehad’s daughters: ‘Let them marry[f] whomever they think best,[g] only they must marry within the family of their father’s tribe.

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 36:4 tn The verb הָיָה (hayah) is most often translated “to be,” but it can also mean “to happen, to take place, to come to pass,” etc.
  2. Numbers 36:4 tn Heb “the tribe of our fathers.”
  3. Numbers 36:5 tn Heb “commanded.”
  4. Numbers 36:5 tn Heb “mouth.”
  5. Numbers 36:6 tn Heb “the word that.”
  6. Numbers 36:6 tn The idiom again is “let them be for wives for….”
  7. Numbers 36:6 tn Heb “to the one who is good in their eyes.”
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