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chapter 36
1
And
the princes of the families of Galaad, the son of Machir, the son of Manasses,
of the stock Of the children of Joseph, came and spoke to Moses before the
princes of Israel, and said:
2 The Lord hath commanded thee, my lord, that thou
shouldst divide the land by lot to the children of Israel, and that thou
shouldst give to the daughters of Salphaad our brother the possession due to
their father:
3 Now if men of another tribe take them to wives, their
possession will follow them, and being transferred to another tribe, will be a
diminishing of our inheritance.
4 And so it shall come to pass, that when the jubilee,
that is, the fiftieth year of remission, is come, the distribution made by the
lots shall be confounded, and the possession of the one shall pass to the
others.
5 Moses answered the children of Israel, and said by
the command of the Lord: The tribe of the children of Joseph hath spoken
rightly.
6 And this is the law promulgated by the Lord touching
the daughters of Salphaad: Let them marry to whom they will, only so that it be
to men of their own tribe.
7 Lest the possession of the children of Israel be
mingled from tribe to tribe. For all men shall marry wives of their own tribe
and kindred:
8 And all women shall take husbands of the same tribe:
that the inheritance may remain in the families,
9 And that the tribes be not mingled one with another,
but remain so
10 As they were separated by the Lord. And the
daughters of Salphaad did as was commanded:
11 And Maala, and Thersa, and Hegla, and Melcha, and
Noa were married to the sons of their uncle by their father
12 Of the family of Manasses, who was the son of
Joseph: and the possession that had been allotted to them, remained in the
tribe and family of their father.
13 These are the commandments and judgments, which the
Lord commanded by the hand of Moses to the children of Israel, in the plains of
Moab upon the Jordan over against Jericho.
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