This is what<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc> has commanded for Zelophehad&#8217;s daughters: &#8216;Let them marry<n id="2" /> whomever they think best,<n id="3" /> only they must marry within the family of their father&#8217;s tribe.

How can we find wives for those who are left?<n id="1" /> After all, we took an oath in the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s name not to give them our daughters as wives.&#8221;

<p class="poetry">Do not give your strength<n id="1" /> to women,p> <p class="poetry">nor your ways<n id="2" /> to that which ruins<n id="3" /> kings.p>

For the daughters of Zelophehad &#8211; Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Noah &#8211; were married to the sons of their uncles.<n id="1" />

They took the Canaanites&#8217; daughters as wives and gave their daughters to the Canaanites;<n id="1" /> they worshiped<n id="2" /> their gods as well.p>

The leaders<n id="1" /> of the assembly said, &#8220;How can we find wives for those who are left?<n id="2" /> After all, the Benjaminite women have been wiped out.

<p class="bodytext">David had also married<n id="1" /> Ahinoam from Jezreel; the two of them became his wives.

They were married into the families of the Manassehites, the descendants of Joseph, and their inheritance remained in the tribe of their father&#8217;s family.p>

<p class="poetry">Destructive forces will come against her horses and her<n id="1" /> chariots.p> <p class="poetry">Destructive forces will come against all the foreign troops within her;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">they will be as frightened as women!<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">Destructive forces will come against her treasures;p> <p class="poetry">they will be taken away as plunder!p>

<p class="poetry">The soldiers of Babylonia will stop fighting.p> <p class="poetry">They will remain in their fortified cities.p> <p class="poetry">They will lose their strength to do battle.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">They will be as frightened as women.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">The houses in her cities will be set on fire.p> <p class="poetry">The gates of her cities will be broken down.<n id="3" />p>

They exposed her nakedness, seized her sons and daughters, and killed her with the sword. She became notorious<n id="1" /> among women, and they executed judgments against her.p>

They must not marry a widow or a divorcee, but they may marry a virgin from the house of Israel<n id="1" /> or a widow who is a priest&#8217;s widow.

&#8220;These men are at peace with us. So let them live in the land and travel freely in it, for the land is wide enough<n id="1" /> for them. We will take their daughters for wives, and we will give them our daughters to marry.<n id="2" />

Now if they should be married to one of the men<n id="1" /> 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.<n id="2" /> As a result, it will be taken from the lot of our inheritance.