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And the chief fathers of the families of the children of Gilead , the son of Machir , the son of Manasseh , of the families of the sons of Joseph , came near , and spoke before Moses , and before the princes, the chief fathers of the children of Israel :
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And they said , The LORD commanded my lord to give the land for an inheritance by lot to the children of Israel : and my lord was commanded by The LORD to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother to his daughters .
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And if they shall be married to any of the sons of the other tribes of the children of Israel , then will their inheritance be taken from the inheritance of our fathers , and will be put to the inheritance of the tribe into which they are received: so it will be taken from the lot of our inheritance .
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And when the jubilee of the children of Israel shall be, then will their inheritance be put to the inheritance of the tribe into which they are received: so shall their inheritance be taken away from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers .
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And Moses commanded the children of Israel according to the word of the LORD , saying, The tribe of the sons of Joseph hath said well.
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This is the thing which the LORD doth command concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, Let them marry to whom they think best; only to the family of the tribe of their father shall they marry.
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So shall not the inheritance of the children of Israel remove from tribe to tribe : for every one of the children of Israel shall keep himself to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers .
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And every daughter, that possesseth an inheritance in any tribe of the children of Israel , shall be wife to one of the family of the tribe of her father , that the children of Israel may enjoy every man the inheritance of his fathers .
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Neither shall the inheritance remove from one tribe to another tribe ; but every one of the tribes of the children of Israel shall keep himself to his own inheritance .
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Even as the LORD commanded Moses , so did the daughters of Zelophehad:
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For Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married to their father's brothers' sons:
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And they were married into the families of the sons of Manasseh the son of Joseph , and their inheritance remained in the tribe of the family of their father .
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These are the commandments and the judgments , which the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses to the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho .