Then Moses commanded the children of Israel, according to the word of the Lord, saying, The tribe of the sons of Joseph have said [a]well.

This is the thing that the Lord hath commanded, concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, They shall be wives, to whom they think best, only to the family of the tribe of their father shall they marry:

So shall not the inheritance of the children of Israel remove from tribe to tribe, for every one of the children of Israel shall join himself to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 36:5 For the tribe could not have continued, if the inheritance which was the maintenance thereof should have been alienated to others.

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