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Numbers 36:7-13 Good News Bible (GNB)

7. The property of every Israelite will remain attached to his tribe.

8. Every woman who inherits property in an Israelite tribe must marry a man belonging to that tribe. In this way all Israelites will inherit the property of their ancestors,

9. and the property will not pass from one tribe to another. Each tribe will continue to possess its own property.”

10-11. So Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, did as the Lord had commanded Moses, and they married their cousins.

12. They married within the clans of the tribe of Manasseh son of Joseph, and their property remained in their father's tribe.

13. These are the rules and regulations that the Lord gave the Israelites through Moses in the plains of Moab across the River Jordan from Jericho.