Numbers 36:1-3
Lexham English Bible
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] 2 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. 3 But if they become wives to one of the sons from another tribe of the Israelites,[k] their inheritance will disappear from the inheritance of our ancestors,[l] and it will be added to the inheritance of the tribe to which they belong; the lot of our inheritance would disappear.
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- Numbers 36:1 Literally “The heads”
- Numbers 36:1 Or “fathers”
- Numbers 36:1 Or “sons”
- Numbers 36:1 Or “sons”
- Numbers 36:1 Literally “before the face of”
- Numbers 36:1 Literally “before the face of”
- Numbers 36:1 Literally “the heads”
- Numbers 36:1 Hebrew “of the fathers”
- Numbers 36:1 Literally “sons/children of Israel”
- Numbers 36:2 Literally “sons/children of Israel”
- Numbers 36:3 Literally “sons/children of Israel”
- Numbers 36:3 Or “fathers”
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