Dual Panel1Then the heads <07218> of the family <04940> groups <01121> <01> of the Gileadites <01568>, the descendant <01121> of Machir <04353>, the descendant <01121> of Manasseh <04519>, who were from the Josephite <03130> <01121> families <04940>, approached <07126> and spoke <01696> before <06440> Moses <04872> and the leaders <05387> who were the heads <07218> of the Israelite <03478> families <01121> <01>.
2They said <0559>, “The Lord <0113> commanded <06680> my lord <03068> to give <05414> the land <0776> as an inheritance <05159> by lot <01486> to the Israelites <03478> <01121>; and my lord <0113> was commanded <06680> by the Lord <03068> to give <05414> the inheritance <05159> of our brother <0251> Zelophehad <06765> to his daughters <01323>.
3Now if they should be married <0802> <01961> to one <0259> of the men <01121> from another Israelite <03478> <01121> tribe <07626>, their inheritance <05159> would be taken <01639> from the inheritance <05159> of our fathers <01> and added <03254> to <05921> the inheritance <05159> of the tribe <04294> into which <0834> they marry <01961>. As a result, it will be taken <01639> from the lot <01486> of our inheritance <05159>.
4And when <0518> the Jubilee <03104> of the Israelites <03478> <01121> is to take place <01961>, their inheritance <05159> will be added <03254> to <05921> the inheritance <05159> of the tribe <04294> into which <0834> they marry <01961>. So their inheritance <05159> will be taken away <01639> from the inheritance <05159> of our ancestral <01> tribe <04294>.”
5Then Moses <04872> gave a ruling <06680> to the Israelites <03478> <01121> by <05921> the word <06310> of the Lord <03068>: “What the tribe <04294> of the Josephites <03130> <01121> is saying <01696> is right <03651>.
6This <02088> is what <01697> the Lord <03068> has commanded <06680> for Zelophehad’s <06765> daughters <01323>: ‘Let them marry <0802> <01961> whomever they think <05869> best <02896>, only <0389> they must marry <0802> <01961> within the family <04940> of their father’s <01> tribe <04294>.
7In this way the inheritance <05159> of the Israelites <03478> <01121> will not <03808> be transferred <05437> from tribe <04294> to <0413> tribe <04294>. But <03588> every one <0376> of the Israelites <03478> <01121> must retain <01692> the ancestral <01> <04294> heritage <05159>.
8And every <03605> daughter <01323> who possesses <03423> an inheritance <05159> from any of the tribes <04294> of the Israelites <03478> <01121> must become <01961> the wife <0802> of a man <0259> from any family <04940> in her father’s <01> tribe <04294>, so that <04616> every <0376> Israelite <03478> <01121> may retain <03423> the inheritance <05159> of his fathers <01>.
9No <03808> inheritance <05159> may pass <05437> from tribe <04294> to tribe <04294>. But <03588> every one <0376> of the tribes <04294> of the Israelites <03478> <01121> must retain <01692> its inheritance <05159>.”
10As <0834> the Lord <03069> had commanded <06680> Moses <04872>, so <03651> the daughters <01323> of Zelophehad <06765> did <06213>.
11For the daughters <01323> of Zelophehad <06765>– Mahlah <04244>, Tirzah <08656>, Hoglah <02295>, Milcah <04435>, and Noah <05270>– were <01961> married <0802> to the sons <01121> of their uncles <01730>.
12They were <01961> married <0802> into the families <04940> of the Manassehites <04519> <01121>, the descendants <01121> of Joseph <03130>, and their inheritance <05159> remained <01961> in <05921> the tribe <04294> of their father’s <01> family <04940>.
13These <0428> are the commandments <04687> and the decisions <04941> that <0834> the Lord <03068> commanded <06680> the Israelites <03478> <01121> through the authority <03027> of Moses <04872>, on <0413> the plains <06160> of Moab <04124> by <05921> the Jordan River <03383> opposite Jericho <03405>.