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Moses commanded the people of Israel according to the word of the Lord, saying, “The tribe of Joseph is correct in what they have said. This is what the Lord has commanded concerning the daughters of Zelophehad: ‘Let them marry whomever they wish, only they are to marry within the ancestral tribe of their father. Thus, no inheritance among the people of Israel will be transferred from one tribe to another. The people of Israel will hold on to the inheritance of their ancestral tribe.

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