Numbers 36:5-13 - Moses' Decision

⁵ So Moses gave the people of Israel the following command from Jehovah. He said: What the tribe of Manasseh says is right, ⁶ and so Jehovah says that the daughters of Zelophehad are free to marry anyone they wish but only within their own tribe. ⁷ The property of every Israelite will remain attached to his tribe. ⁸ Every woman who inherits property in an Israelite tribe must marry a man belonging to that tribe. In this way all Israelites will inherit the property of their ancestors, ⁹ and the property will not pass from one tribe to another. Each tribe will continue to possess its own property.

¹⁰ Zelophehad's daughters did as Jehovah commanded Moses. ¹¹ Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Noah married their cousins on their father's side of the family. ¹² They married within the families of the descendants of Manasseh, son of Joseph. So their land stayed in the tribe of their father's family.

¹³ These are the commandments and rules Jehovah gave the Israelites through Moses on the plains of Moab near the Jordan River across from Jericho.