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Numbers 36
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:
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:
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.
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.
Moses answered the children of Israel, and said by the
command of the Lord: The tribe of the children of Joseph
hath spoken rightly.
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.
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:
And all women shall take husbands of the same tribe:
that the inheritance may remain in the families,
And that the tribes be not mingled one with another,
but remain so
As they were separated by the Lord. And the daughters
of Salphaad did as was commanded:
And Maala, and Thersa, and Hegla, and Melcha, and Noa
were married to the sons of their uncle by their father
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.
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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