Inheritance Through Marriage

¹ ⌞The leaders⌟¹ of the families² of the clans of descendants³ of Gilead the son of Makir, the son of Manasseh, of the clans of the descendants⁴ of Joseph came near and spoke ⌞before⌟⁵ Moses and ⌞before⌟⁶ ⌞the leaders⌟⁷ of the families⁸ of the ⌞Israelites⌟.⁹

1. Literally “The heads”
2. Or “fathers”
3. Or “sons”
4. Or “sons”
5. Literally “before the face of”
6. Literally “before the face of”
7. Literally “the heads”
8. Hebrew “of the fathers”
9. Literally “sons/children of Israel”

² And they said, “Yahweh commanded my lord to give the land by lot as an inheritance to the ⌞Israelites⌟,¹ and my lord was commanded by Yahweh to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother to his daughters.

1. Literally “sons/children of Israel”

³ But if they become wives to one of the sons from another tribe of the ⌞Israelites⌟,¹ their inheritance will disappear from the inheritance of our ancestors,² and it will be added to the inheritance of the tribe to which they belong; the lot of our inheritance would disappear.

1. Literally “sons/children of Israel”
2. Or “fathers”

⁴ When the Jubilee of the ⌞Israelites⌟¹ ⌞comes⌟,² 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.”

1. Literally “sons/children of Israel”
2. Literally “will be”

⁵ Then Moses commanded the ⌞Israelites⌟¹ by the command of Yahweh, saying, “The tribe of the descendants² of Joseph is right regarding what they are speaking.

1. Literally “sons/children of Israel”
2. Or “sons”

⁶ This is the word that Yahweh commanded the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, ‘⌞Let them marry⌟¹ ⌞whomever they like⌟;² only ⌞they must marry⌟³ from within the clan of the tribe of their father.

1. Literally “Let them be as wives”
2. Literally “they will be as the good in their eyes”
3. Literally “they must be as wives”

⁷ Thus an inheritance of the ⌞Israelites⌟¹ will not go around from tribe to tribe. Rather, the inheritance of each tribe of his father will remain with the ⌞Israelites⌟.²

1. Literally “sons/children of Israel”
2. Literally “sons/children of Israel”

⁸ Every daughter who possesses an inheritance from the tribes of the ⌞Israelites⌟¹ will ⌞marry⌟² one of the clan of the tribe of her father, so that the ⌞Israelites⌟³ will possess the inheritance of his ancestors.⁴

1. Literally “sons/children of Israel”
2. Literally “be a wife to”
3. Literally “sons/children of Israel”
4. Or “fathers”

⁹ Therefore an inheritance will not go around from one tribe to another tribe because the tribes of the ⌞Israelites⌟¹ will each hold to their own inheritance.’ ”

1. Literally “sons/children of Israel”

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⌟¹ the sons of their uncles.

1. Literally “were as wives to”

¹² ⌞They married⌟¹ those from the sons of Manasseh son of Joseph, and their inheritance ⌞remained⌟² among the tribe of the clan of their ancestors.³

1. Literally “They were as wives to”
2. Literally “was”
3. Or “fathers”

¹³ These were the commands and the stipulations that Yahweh commanded by the hand of Moses¹ to the ⌞Israelites⌟² on the desert-plateaus of Moab by the Jordan across Jericho.

1. Or “through Moses”
2. Literally “sons/children of Israel”