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Text -- Numbers 36:1-6 (NET)
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Women and Land Inheritance
36:1 Then the heads of the family groups of the Gileadites , the descendant of Machir , the descendant of Manasseh , who were from the Josephite families , approached and spoke before Moses and the leaders who were the heads of the Israelite families .
36:2 They said , “The Lord commanded my lord to give the land as an inheritance by lot to the Israelites ; and my lord was commanded by the Lord to give the inheritance of our brother Zelophehad to his daughters .
36:3 Now if they should be married to one of the men from another Israelite tribe , their inheritance would be taken from the inheritance of our fathers and added to the inheritance of the tribe into which they marry . As a result, it will be taken from the lot of our inheritance .
36:4 And when the Jubilee of the Israelites is to take place , 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 our ancestral tribe .”
Moses’ Decision
36:5 Then Moses gave a ruling to the Israelites by the word of the Lord : “What the tribe of the Josephites is saying is right .
36:6 This is what the Lord has commanded for Zelophehad’s daughters : ‘Let them marry whomever they think best , only they must marry within the family of their father’s tribe .
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