Numbers 36:7-13

7 In this way no land of the Israelites will pass from one tribe to another. Every Israelite must keep the tribal land inherited from his ancestors.

8 A woman who inherits land in any of the tribes of Israel may marry a man from any family in her ancestor's tribe. In this way every Israelite keeps the land inherited from his ancestors.

9 No land may pass from one tribe to another. Each Israelite tribe must keep the land it inherits."

10 Zelophehad's daughters did as the LORD commanded Moses.

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

12 They married within the families of the descendants of Manasseh, son of Joseph. So their land stayed in the tribe of their father's family.

13 These are the commands and rules the LORD gave the Israelites through Moses on the plains of Moab near the Jordan River across from Jericho.

Numbers 36:7-13 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO NUMBERS 36

This chapter gives an account of an application made by the heads of the tribe of Manasseh, concerning the inheritances of the daughters of Zelophehad, which, should they marry into other tribes, would be removed thither, and so be a loss to theirs, Nu 36:1-4, which case was judged worthy of regard; and to remedy this inconvenience, they were ordered to marry into the family of their father's tribe, and this was to be a law to all heiresses for the future in other tribes, Nu 36:5-9 and accordingly the daughters of Zelophehad married their father's brothers' sons, Nu 36:10-13.