Open English Translation NUM Chapter 36

36 Now the leaders of the Gilead clans (Gilead was the son of Makir, son of Menashsheh, one of Yosef’s sons) approached Mosheh and the Israeli leaders 2 and said, “Yahweh commanded my master to distribute the land by lot as an inheritance for the people, and my master was also commanded by Yahweh to give our brother Tselofehad’s inheritance to his daughters.[ref] 3 However, if they ended up being married by men from other tribes, then their inheritance would pass from our tribe to their husbands’ tribes, so we’d end up with less land as our tribal inheritance. 4 Then when Yisrael celebrates the Jubilee Year, then that inheritance will be added to the inheritance of their husbands’ tribes, and be deducted from the inheritance of our ancestral tribe.”

5 Then Mosheh gave a ruling to the Israelis in accordance with what Yahweh had told him, “These Yosefite men are correct. 6 Yahweh’s command to Tselofehad’s daughters is that each of you may marry whoever you want as long as it’s someone from your own tribe. 7 That way, land in Yisrael won’t move from tribe to tribe, because it will always stay as part of the inheritance given to that tribe. 8 Any woman who inherits land can only marry someone from her own tribe, so that the people will always retain ownership of their tribal inheritance. 9 That inheritance mustn’t pass from tribe to tribe, but each Israeli tribe must keep hold of its inheritance.”

10 So Tselofehad’s daughters obeyed what Yahweh had told Mosheh, 11 and the five daughters (Mahlah, Tirtsah, Hoglah, Milkah, and Noah) married their cousins on their father’s side. 12 The men they married were from the Menashsheh tribe (Yosef’s son), so their land continued to belong to their father’s family and tribe.

13 All the above were the commands and regulations that Yahweh ordered Mosheh to tell the Israelis, while they were camped on the Moav plains beside the Yarden river opposite Yeriho (Jericho).