Numbers 36 Lexham English Bible
Inheritance Through Marriage
36 The leaders[a] of the families[b] of the clans of descendants[c] of Gilead the son of Makir, the son of Manasseh, of the clans of the descendants[d] of Joseph came near and spoke before[e] Moses and before[f] the leaders[g] of the families[h] of the Israelites.[i] 2 And they said, “Yahweh commanded my lord to give the land by lot as an inheritance to the Israelites,[j] and my lord was commanded by Yahweh to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother to his daughters. 3 But if they become wives to one of the sons from another tribe of the Israelites,[k] their inheritance will disappear from the inheritance of our ancestors,[l] and it will be added to the inheritance of the tribe to which they belong; the lot of our inheritance would disappear. 4 When the Jubilee of the Israelites[m] comes,[n] 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.”
5 Then Moses commanded the Israelites[o] by the command of Yahweh, saying, “The tribe of the descendants[p] of Joseph is right regarding what they are speaking. 6 This is the word that Yahweh commanded the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, ‘Let them marry[q] whomever they like;[r] only they must marry[s] from within the clan of the tribe of their father. 7 Thus an inheritance of the Israelites[t] will not go around from tribe to tribe. Rather, the inheritance of each tribe of his father will remain with the Israelites.[u] 8 Every daughter who possesses an inheritance from the tribes of the Israelites[v] will marry[w] one of the clan of the tribe of her father, so that the Israelites[x] will possess the inheritance of his ancestors.[y] 9 Therefore an inheritance will not go around from one tribe to another tribe because the tribes of the Israelites[z] will each hold to their own inheritance.’”
10 Just as Yahweh commanded to Moses, so the daughters of Zelophehad did: 11 Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, married[aa] the sons of their uncles. 12 They married[ab] those from the sons of Manasseh son of Joseph, and their inheritance remained[ac] among the tribe of the clan of their ancestors.[ad]
13 These were the commands and the stipulations that Yahweh commanded by the hand of Moses[ae] to the Israelites[af] on the desert-plateaus of Moab by the Jordan across Jericho.
Footnotes
- Numbers 36:1 Literally “The heads”
- Numbers 36:1 Or “fathers”
- Numbers 36:1 Or “sons”
- Numbers 36:1 Or “sons”
- Numbers 36:1 Literally “before the face of”
- Numbers 36:1 Literally “before the face of”
- Numbers 36:1 Literally “the heads”
- Numbers 36:1 Hebrew “of the fathers”
- Numbers 36:1 Literally “sons/children of Israel”
- Numbers 36:2 Literally “sons/children of Israel”
- Numbers 36:3 Literally “sons/children of Israel”
- Numbers 36:3 Or “fathers”
- Numbers 36:4 Literally “sons/children of Israel”
- Numbers 36:4 Literally “will be”
- Numbers 36:5 Literally “sons/children of Israel”
- Numbers 36:5 Or “sons”
- Numbers 36:6 Literally “Let them be as wives”
- Numbers 36:6 Literally “they will be as the good in their eyes”
- Numbers 36:6 Literally “they must be as wives”
- Numbers 36:7 Literally “sons/children of Israel”
- Numbers 36:7 Literally “sons/children of Israel”
- Numbers 36:8 Literally “sons/children of Israel”
- Numbers 36:8 Literally “be a wife to”
- Numbers 36:8 Literally “sons/children of Israel”
- Numbers 36:8 Or “fathers”
- Numbers 36:9 Literally “sons/children of Israel”
- Numbers 36:11 Literally “were as wives to”
- Numbers 36:12 Literally “They were as wives to”
- Numbers 36:12 Literally “was”
- Numbers 36:12 Or “fathers”
- Numbers 36:13 Or “through Moses”
- Numbers 36:13 Literally “sons/children of Israel”
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