Numbers 36

New King James Version

Marriage of Female Heirs

36 Now the chief fathers of the families of the ^(A)children of Gilead the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of the sons of Joseph, came near and ^(B)spoke before Moses and before the leaders, the chief fathers of the children of Israel. ²And they said: ^(C)“The Lord commanded my lord Moses to give the land as an inheritance by lot to the children of Israel, and ^(D)my lord was commanded by the Lord to give the inheritance of our brother Zelophehad to his daughters. ³Now if they are married to any of the sons of the other tribes of the children of Israel, then their inheritance will be ^(E)taken from the inheritance of our fathers, and it will be added to the inheritance of the tribe into which they marry; so it will be taken from the lot of our inheritance. ⁴And when ^(F)the Jubilee of the children of Israel comes, then their inheritance will be added to the inheritance of the tribe into which they marry; so their inheritance will be taken away from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers.”

⁵Then Moses commanded the children of Israel according to the word of the Lord, saying: ^(G)“What the tribe of the sons of Joseph speaks is right. ⁶This is what the Lord commands concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, ‘Let them ^[a]marry whom they think best, ^(H)but they may marry only within the family of their father’s tribe.’ ⁷So the inheritance of the children of Israel shall not change hands from tribe to tribe, for every one of the children of Israel shall ^(I)keep the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers. ⁸And ^(J)every daughter who possesses an inheritance in any tribe of the children of Israel shall be the wife of one of the family of her father’s tribe, so that the children of Israel each may possess the inheritance of his fathers. ⁹Thus no inheritance shall change hands from one tribe to another, but every tribe of the children of Israel shall keep its own inheritance.”

¹⁰Just as the Lord commanded Moses, so did the daughters of Zelophehad; ¹¹^(K)for Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married to the sons of their father’s brothers. ¹²They were married into the families of the children of Manasseh the son of Joseph, and their inheritance remained in the tribe of their father’s family.

¹³These are the commandments and the judgments which the Lord commanded the children of Israel by the hand of Moses ^(L)in the plains of Moab by the Jordan, across from Jericho.

Footnotes

Numbers 36:6 Lit. be wives to

Psalm 95

New King James Version

A Call to Worship and Obedience

95 Oh come, let us sing to the Lord!
Let us shout joyfully to the Rock of our salvation.
²Let us come before His presence with thanksgiving;
Let us shout joyfully to Him with ^(A)psalms.
³For ^(B)the Lord is the great God,
And the great King above all gods.
⁴^[a]In His hand are the deep places of the earth;
The heights of the hills are His also.
⁵^(C)The sea is His, for He made it;
And His hands formed the dry land.

⁶Oh come, let us worship and bow down;
Let ^(D)us kneel before the Lord our Maker.
⁷For He is our God,
And ^(E)we are the people of His pasture,
And the sheep ^[b]of His hand.

^(F)Today, if you will hear His voice:
⁸“Do not harden your hearts, as in the ^[c]rebellion,
^(G)As in the day of ^[d]trial in the wilderness,
⁹When ^(H)your fathers tested Me;
They tried Me, though they ^(I)saw My work.
¹⁰For ^(J)forty years I was ^[e]grieved with that generation,
And said, ‘It is a people who go astray in their hearts,
And they do not know My ways.’
¹¹So ^(K)I swore in My wrath,
‘They shall not enter My rest.’ ”