¹⌞The leaders⌟ of the families of the clans of descendants of Gilead the son of Makir, the son of Manasseh, of the clans of the descendants of Joseph came near and spoke ⌞before⌟ Moses and ⌞before⌟ ⌞the leaders⌟ of the families of the ⌞Israelites⌟. ²And they said, “Yahweh commanded my lord to give the land by lot as an inheritance to the ⌞Israelites⌟, and my lord was commanded by Yahweh to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother to his daughters. ³But if they become wives to one of the sons from another tribe of the ⌞Israelites⌟, their inheritance will disappear from the inheritance of our ancestors, and it will be added to the inheritance of the tribe to which they belong; the lot of our inheritance would disappear. ⁴When the Jubilee of the ⌞Israelites⌟ ⌞comes⌟, it will be added to the inheritance of the tribe to which they belong; and their inheritance will disappear from the tribe of our father.” ⁵Then Moses commanded the ⌞Israelites⌟ by the command of Yahweh, saying, “The tribe of the descendants of Joseph is right regarding what they are speaking. ⁶This is the word that Yahweh commanded the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, ‘⌞Let them marry⌟ ⌞whomever they like⌟; only ⌞they must marry⌟ from within the clan of the tribe of their father. ⁷Thus an inheritance of the ⌞Israelites⌟ will not go around from tribe to tribe. Rather, the inheritance of each tribe of his father will remain with the ⌞Israelites⌟. ⁸Every daughter who possesses an inheritance from the tribes of the ⌞Israelites⌟ will ⌞marry⌟ one of the clan of the tribe of her father, so that the ⌞Israelites⌟ will possess the inheritance of his ancestors. ⁹Therefore an inheritance will not go around from one tribe to another tribe because the tribes of the ⌞Israelites⌟ will each hold to their own inheritance.’ ” ¹⁰Just as Yahweh commanded to Moses, so the daughters of Zelophehad did: ¹¹Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, ⌞married⌟ the sons of their uncles. ¹²⌞They married⌟ those from the sons of Manasseh son of Joseph, and their inheritance ⌞remained⌟ among the tribe of the clan of their ancestors. ¹³These were the commands and the stipulations that Yahweh commanded by the hand of Moses to the ⌞Israelites⌟ on the desert-plateaus of Moab by the Jordan across Jericho.