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Moses’ Decision

Then Moses gave a ruling[a] to the Israelites by the word[b] of the Lord: “What the tribe of the Josephites is saying is right. This is what[c] the Lord has commanded for Zelophehad’s daughters: ‘Let them marry[d] whomever they think best,[e] only they must marry within the family of their father’s tribe. In this way the inheritance of the Israelites will not be transferred[f] from tribe to tribe. But every one of the Israelites must retain the ancestral heritage.

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 36:5 tn Heb “commanded.”
  2. Numbers 36:5 tn Heb “mouth.”
  3. Numbers 36:6 tn Heb “the word that.”
  4. Numbers 36:6 tn The idiom again is “let them be for wives for….”
  5. Numbers 36:6 tn Heb “to the one who is good in their eyes.”
  6. Numbers 36:7 tn Heb “turned aside.”