English Bible Presentation Sharing - Numbers Book, chapter 36, verse 18 in Hcsb Version

Numbers 36 : 1 (HCSB)

The family leaders from the clan of the descendants of Gilead-- the son of Machir, son of Manasseh-- one of the clans of the sons of Joseph approached and addressed Moses and the leaders who were over the Israelite families.

Numbers 36 : 2 (HCSB)

They said, "The LORD commanded my lord to give the land as an inheritance by lot to the Israelites. My lord was further commanded by the LORD to give our brother Zelophehad's inheritance to his daughters.

Numbers 36 : 3 (HCSB)

If they marry any of the men from the *other Israelite tribes, their inheritance will be taken away from our fathers' inheritance and added to that of the tribe into which they marry. Therefore, part of our allotted inheritance would be taken away.

Numbers 36 : 4 (HCSB)

When the Jubilee comes for the Israelites, their inheritance will be added to that of the tribe into which they marry, and their inheritance will be taken away from the inheritance of our ancestral tribe."

Numbers 36 : 5 (HCSB)

So Moses commanded the Israelites at the word of the LORD, "What the tribe of Joseph's descendants says is right.

Numbers 36 : 6 (HCSB)

This is what the LORD has commanded concerning Zelophehad's daughters: They may marry anyone they like provided they marry within a clan of their ancestral tribe.

Numbers 36 : 7 (HCSB)

An inheritance belonging to the Israelites must not transfer from tribe to tribe, because each of the Israelites is to retain the inheritance of his ancestral tribe.

Numbers 36 : 8 (HCSB)

Any daughter who possesses an inheritance from an Israelite tribe must marry someone from the clan of her ancestral tribe, so that each of the Israelites will possess the inheritance of his fathers.

Numbers 36 : 9 (HCSB)

No inheritance is to transfer from one tribe to another, because each of the Israelite tribes is to retain its inheritance."

Numbers 36 : 10 (HCSB)

The daughters of Zelophehad did as the LORD commanded Moses.

Numbers 36 : 11 (HCSB)

Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, married cousins on their father's side.

Numbers 36 : 12 (HCSB)

They married *men from the clans of the descendants of Manasseh son of Joseph, and their inheritance remained within the tribe of their father's clan.

Numbers 36 : 13 (HCSB)

These are the commands and ordinances the LORD commanded the Israelites through Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan *across from Jericho.