Numbers 36

1 And the chief fathers of the families of the children of Gilad, the son of Machir, the son of Menashsheh, of the families of the sons of Joseph (Yosef), came near, and spake before Moses (Mosheh), and before the princes, the chief fathers of the children of Yisrael;

2 And they said: “יהוה commanded my lord (adoni) to give the land for an inheritance by lot to the children of Yisrael, and my lord (adoni) was commanded by יהוה to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother unto his daughters.

3 And if they be married to any of the sons of the other tribes of the children of Yisrael, then shall their inheritance be taken from the inheritance of our fathers, and shall be put to the inheritance of the tribe whereunto they are received; so shall it be taken from the lot of our inheritance.

4 And when the 25Jubilee (Yovel) of the children of Yisrael shall be, then shall their inheritance be put unto the inheritance of the tribe whereunto they are received; so shall their inheritance be taken away from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers.”

5 And Moses (Mosheh) commanded the children of Yisrael according to the word of יהוה, saying: “The tribe of the sons of Joseph (Yosef) hath said well.

6 This is the thing which יהוה doth command concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, ‘Let them marry to whom they think best; only to the family of the tribe of their father shall they marry.’

7 So shall not the inheritance of the children of Yisrael remove from tribe to tribe, for

every one of the children of Yisrael shall keep himself to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.

8 And every daughter, that possesseth an inheritance in any tribe of the children of Yisrael, shall be wife unto one of the family of the tribe of her father, that the children of Yisrael may enjoy every man the inheritance of his fathers.

9 Neither shall the inheritance remove from one tribe to another tribe; but every one of the tribes of the children of Yisrael shall keep himself to his own inheritance.”

10 Even as יהוה commanded Moses (Mosheh), so did the daughters of Zelophehad;

11 For Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Noach, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married unto

their father’s brothers’ sons.

12 And they were married into the families of the sons of Menashsheh the son of Joseph (Yosef), and their inheritance remained in the tribe of the family of their father.

13 These are the commandments and the judgments, which יהוה command-ed by the hand of Moses (Mosheh) unto the children of Yisrael in the plains of Moav by Jordan (Yarden) near Yericho.