Chapter 36
1 The heads of the fathers’ households of the family of the children of Gilead , the son of Machir , the son of Manasseh , of the families of the sons of Joseph , came near and spoke before Moses and before the princes , the heads of the fathers’ households of the children of Israel .
2 They said, " Yahweh commanded my lord to give the land for inheritance by lot to the children of Israel . My lord was commanded by Yahweh to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother to his daughters .
3 If they are married to any of the sons of the other tribes of the children of Israel , then their inheritance will be taken away from the inheritance of our fathers, and will be added to the inheritance of the tribe to which they shall belong . So it will be taken away from the lot of our inheritance .
4 When the jubilee of the children of Israel comes , then their inheritance will be added to the inheritance of the tribe to which they shall belong . So their inheritance will be taken away from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers."
5 Moses commanded the children of Israel according to Yahweh ’s word , saying , " The tribe of the sons of Joseph speak what is right .
6 This is the thing which Yahweh commands concerning the daughters of Zelophehad , saying , ‘ Let them be married to whom they think best , only they shall marry into the family of the tribe of their father.
7 So shall no inheritance of the children of Israel move from tribe to tribe ; for the children of Israel shall all keep the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.
8 Every daughter who possesses an inheritance in any tribe of the children of Israel shall be wife to one of the family of the tribe of her father , that the children of Israel may each possess the inheritance of his fathers.
9 So shall no inheritance move from one tribe to another tribe ; for the tribes of the children of Israel shall each keep his own inheritance .’"
10 The daughters of Zelophehad did as Yahweh commanded Moses :
11 for Mahlah , Tirzah , Hoglah , Milcah , and Noah , the daughters of Zelophehad , were married to their father ’s brothers ’ sons .
12 They were married into the families of the sons of Manasseh the son of Joseph . Their inheritance remained in the tribe of the family of their father .
13 These are the commandments and the ordinances which Yahweh commanded by Moses to the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho .