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And it came to pass that when Israel abode in Shittim, the people began to commit whoredoms with the daughters of Moab, even as YHVHa had warnedb;
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For the people of Moab called the people of Israel unto the sacrifices of their elohima; and the people did eat and bowed down to their elohim.
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And Israel joined in the house of Peora, an elohim of the Moabites; and the anger of YHVH was kindled against Israel.
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And it came to pass that YHVH sent a plaguea and many of the men of Israel died.
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¶ And it came to pass, after the plague, that the daughters of Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of Manasseh, the son of Joseph came unto Moses and Eleazar, the son of Aaron, the priest;
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And Zelophehada, the son of Hepher, had no sons, but daughters; and these are the names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Tirzah.
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And these, the daughters of Zelophehad stood before Moses, and before Eleazar, the Priest, and before the princes and all the congregation by the door of the Tabernacle of the Congregationa, saying: Our father died in the wilderness,
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And he was not in the company of they that gathered themselves together against YHVH in the company of Korah, but died in his own sina and had no sons.
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Why should the name of our father be done away from among his family because he hath no son?
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Give unto us, therefore, a possession among the brethren of our father.
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¶ And it came to pass that Moses brought their cause before YHVH.
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And YHVH spake unto Moses, saying: The daughters of Zelophehad speak right; thou shalt surely give them a possession of an inheritance among their father's brethren; and thou shalt cause the inheritance of their father to pass unto them.
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¶ These are the families of Manasseh and those that were numbered of them, these are the sons of Ephraim after their families: of Shuthelah, the family of the Shuthalhites; of Becher, the family of the Bachrites; of Tahan, the family of the Tahanites.
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And these are the sons of Shuthelah: of Eran, the family of the Eranites.
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These are the families of the sons of Ephraim according to those that were numbered of them, thirty and two thousand and five hundred; these are the sons of Joseph after their families.
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And YHVH spoke unto Moses, saying: These are the names of those which shall divide the land unto you: Eleazar, the Priest, and Joshua, the son of Nun.
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And ye shall take one to be the head of every tribe to divide the land by inheritance.
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And the names of the men are these: of the tribe of Judah, Caleb, the son of Jephunneh;
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And of the tribe of the children of Simeon, Shemuel, the son of Ammihud;
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Of the tribe of Benjamin, Elidad, the son of Chislon;
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And the head of the tribe of the children of Dan, Bukki, the son of Jogli;
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The head of the children of Joseph, for the tribe of the children of Manasseh, Hanniel, the son of Ephod;
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And the head of the tribe of the children of Ephraim, Kemuel, the son of Shiphtan;
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And the head of the tribe of the children of Zebulun, Elizaphan, the son of Parnach;
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And the head of the tribe of the children of Issachar, Paltiel, the son of Azzan;
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And the head of the tribe of the children of Asher, Ahihud, the son of Shelomi;
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And the head of the tribe of the children of Naphtali, Pedahel, the son of Ammihud.
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These are they whom YHVH instructed to divide the inheritance unto Israel in the land of Canaan.
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¶ And it came to pass that 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 spake before Moses and before the princes, the chief fathers of Israel;
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And they said: YHVH instructed my lord to give the land for an inheritance by lot to Israel; and my lord was instructed by YHVH to give the inheritance of Zelophehad, our brother, unto his daughters.
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And if they be married to any of the sons of the other tribes of Israel, then shall their inheritance be taken from the inheritance of our fathers and shall be put to the inheritance of the tribe whereunto they are received; so shall it be taken from the lot of our inheritance.
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And when the jubilee of Israel shall be, then shall their inheritance be put unto the inheritance of the tribe where unto 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 instructed Israel according to the word of YHVH, saying: The tribe of the sons of Joseph hath said well.
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Concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, this is the thing which YHVH doth command, saying: Let them marry to whom they think best; only to the family of the tribe of their fathers shall they marry.
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So shall the inheritance of Israel not be removed from tribe to tribe; for every one 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 Israel shall be wife unto one of the family of the tribe of her father, that Israel may enjoy, everyone, 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 Israel shall keep themselves to their own inheritance.
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Even as YHVH 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 unto 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.