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Text -- Numbers 36:7-13 (NET)
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36:7 In this way the inheritance of the Israelites will not be transferred from tribe to tribe . But every one of the Israelites must retain the ancestral heritage .
36:8 And every daughter who possesses an inheritance from any of the tribes of the Israelites must become the wife of a man from any family in her father’s tribe , so that every Israelite may retain the inheritance of his fathers .
36:9 No inheritance may pass from tribe to tribe . But every one of the tribes of the Israelites must retain its inheritance .”
36:10 As the Lord had commanded Moses , so the daughters of Zelophehad did .
36:11 For the daughters of Zelophehad – Mahlah , Tirzah , Hoglah , Milcah , and Noah – were married to the sons of their uncles .
36:12 They were married into the families of the Manassehites , the descendants of Joseph , and their inheritance remained in the tribe of their father’s family .
36:13 These are the commandments and the decisions that the Lord commanded the Israelites through the authority of Moses , on the plains of Moab by the Jordan River opposite Jericho .
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NET Notes: Num 36:8 The subject is “Israelites” and the verb is plural to agree with it, but the idea is collective as the word for “man” indicate...
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NET Notes: Num 36:11 They married in the family as they were instructed. But the meaning of דּוֹד (dod) is not necessarily restricted to R...
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