Inheritance for daughters
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📚And the heads of the fathers’ families of the children of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of the sons of Joseph, approached and spoke before Moses and before the leaders, the heads of the fathers’ households of the children of Israel, 2 📚and they said, “The LORD commanded my lord to give the land by lot as an inheritance to the children of Israel; and my lord was commanded by the LORD to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother to his daughters. 3 And if they marry any of the sons of the other tribes of the children of Israel, then their inheritance will be taken from the inheritance of our fathers, and be added to the inheritance of the tribe where they are received; so it will be taken from the lot of our inheritance. 4 📚And when the Jubilee of the children of Israel takes place, then their inheritance will be added to the inheritance of the tribe where they are received; so their inheritance will be taken away from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers”. 5 📚And Moses commanded the children of Israel in accordance with the word of the LORD, saying, “The tribe of the sons of Joseph has spoken justly. 6 📚This is what the LORD commands concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, Let them marry whom they think best, but they shall marry only in the family of the tribe of their father. 7 📚So the inheritance of the children of Israel will not change from tribe to tribe; for each of the children of Israel will keep himself to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers. 8 📚And every daughter who possesses an inheritance in any tribe of the children of Israel, shall marry one of the family of the tribe of her father, so that each person of the children of Israel may enjoy the inheritance of his fathers. 9 And the inheritance will not change from one tribe to another tribe; but each person of the tribes of the children of Israel shall keep himself to his own inheritance”.
10 📚The daughters of Zelophehad did just as the LORD commanded Moses. 11 📚For Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, married their father’s brother's sons; 12 they married into the families of the sons of Manasseh the son of Joseph, and their inheritance remained in the tribe of the family of their father.
13 đź“šThese are the commandments and the judgments which the LORD gave to the children of Israel through Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan opposite Jericho.