Now Zelophehad son of Hepher had no sons, but only daughters; and the names of the daughters of Zelophehad were Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.

“And if she marries a husband while under a vow, or she uttered anything impulsively by which she has pledged herself,

So they said, “If we have found favor in your sight, let this land be given to your servants for our inheritance. Do not have us cross the Jordan River.”

If he strikes him by throwing a stone large enough that he could die, and he dies, he is a murderer. The murderer must surely be put to death.

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.”

“Not a single person of this evil generation will see the good land that I promised to give to your ancestors!

But now, why should we die, because this intense fire will consume us! If we keep hearing the voice of the Lord our God we will die!

Instead, this is what you must do to them: You must tear down their altars, shatter their sacred pillars, cut down their sacred Asherah poles, and burn up their idols.

But you must seek only the place he chooses from all your tribes to establish his name as his place of residence, and you must go there.

for you may do so only in the place the Lord chooses in one of your tribal areas – there you may do everything I am commanding you.

if you carefully obey him by keeping all these commandments that I am giving you today.

If the Lord your God enlarges your borders as he promised your ancestors and gives you all the land he pledged to them,

If it accepts your terms and submits to you, all the people found in it will become your slaves.

If you are not pleased with her, then you must let her go where she pleases. You cannot in any case sell her; you must not take advantage of her, since you have already humiliated her.

But if the man came across the engaged woman in the field and overpowered her and raped her, then only the rapist must die.

How can one man chase a thousand of them, and two pursue ten thousand; unless their Rock had delivered them up, and the Lord had handed them over?

We swear we have done this because we were worried that in the future your descendants would say to our descendants, ‘What relationship do you have with the Lord God of Israel?

But if you ever turn away and make alliances with these nations that remain near you, and intermarry with them and establish friendly relations with them,

Joshua left those nations to test Israel. I wanted to see whether or not the people would carefully walk in the path marked out by the Lord, as their ancestors were careful to do.”

He said to her, “Stand watch at the entrance to the tent. If anyone comes along and asks you, ‘Is there a man here?’ say ‘No.’”