Thematic Bible
Numbers 36:1 (show verse)
Numbers 36:2 (show verse)
and they said, “The Lord commanded my lord to give the land by lot to the sons of Israel as an inheritance, and my lord was commanded by the Lord to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother to his daughters.
Numbers 36:3 (show verse)
But if they marry one of the sons of the other tribes of the sons of Israel, their inheritance will be withdrawn from the inheritance of our fathers and will be added to the inheritance of the tribe to which they belong; thus it will be withdrawn from our allotted inheritance.
Numbers 36:4 (show verse)
When the jubilee of the sons of Israel comes, then their inheritance will be added to the inheritance of the tribe to which they belong; so their inheritance will be withdrawn from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers.”
Numbers 36:5 (show verse)
Then Moses commanded the sons of Israel according to the word of the Lord, saying, “The tribe of the sons of Joseph are right in their statements.
Numbers 36:6 (show verse)
Numbers 36:7 (show verse)
Thus no inheritance of the sons of Israel shall be transferred from tribe to tribe, for the sons of Israel shall each hold to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.
Numbers 36:8 (show verse)
Numbers 36:9 (show verse)
Thus no inheritance shall be transferred from one tribe to another tribe, for the tribes of the sons of Israel shall each hold to his own inheritance.”
Numbers 36:10 (show verse)
Just as the Lord had commanded Moses, so the daughters of Zelophehad did:
Numbers 36:11 (show verse)
Numbers 36:12 (show verse)
They married those from the families of the sons of Manasseh the son of Joseph, and their inheritance remained with the tribe of the family of their father.