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Inheritance Through Marriage

36 The leaders[a] of the families[b] of the clans of descendants[c] of Gilead the son of Makir, the son of Manasseh, of the clans of the descendants[d] of Joseph came near and spoke before[e] Moses and before[f] the leaders[g] of the families[h] of the Israelites.[i] And they said, “Yahweh commanded my lord to give the land by lot as an inheritance to the Israelites,[j] and my lord was commanded by Yahweh to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother to his daughters.

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 36:1 Literally “The heads”
  2. Numbers 36:1 Or “fathers”
  3. Numbers 36:1 Or “sons”
  4. Numbers 36:1 Or “sons”
  5. Numbers 36:1 Literally “before the face of”
  6. Numbers 36:1 Literally “before the face of”
  7. Numbers 36:1 Literally “the heads”
  8. Numbers 36:1 Hebrew “of the fathers”
  9. Numbers 36:1 Literally “sons/children of Israel”
  10. Numbers 36:2 Literally “sons/children of Israel”

Inheritance of Zelophehad’s Daughters(A)

36 The family heads of the clan of Gilead(B) son of Makir,(C) the son of Manasseh, who were from the clans of the descendants of Joseph,(D) came and spoke before Moses and the leaders,(E) the heads of the Israelite families. They said, “When the Lord commanded my lord to give the land as an inheritance to the Israelites by lot,(F) he ordered you to give the inheritance of our brother Zelophehad(G) to his daughters.

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