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Leningrad Codex, through the Open Scriptures Westminster Leningrad Codex. The written consonants are printed. A Masoretic reading is footnoted when it differs. No Dead Sea reading was substituted unless it was read from a fragment. The Samaritan Pentateuch and the Greek, Syriac, and Latin versions are witnesses, not the default.
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1The heads of the fathers of the clan of the sons of Gilead son of Machir son of Manasseh, from the clans of the sons of Joseph, came near and spoke before Moses and before the chiefs, the heads of the fathers of the sons of Israel.
2They said, God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. commanded my lord to give the land as an inheritance by lot to the sons of Israel, and my lord was commanded by God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother to his daughters.
3If they become wives to any of the sons of the tribes of the sons of Israel, their inheritance will be withdrawn from the inheritance of our fathers and added to the inheritance of the tribe they belong to, and it will be withdrawn from the lot of our inheritance.
4If the The fiftieth year, when land goes back to the family that held it. comes for the sons of Israel, their inheritance will be added to the inheritance of the tribe they belong to, and their inheritance will be withdrawn from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers.
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Yovel is the jubilee, the fiftieth year, as in Leviticus 25.
5Moses commanded the sons of Israel at God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary.’s mouth, saying, The tribe of the sons of Joseph speaks what is right.
6This is the word that God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. commanded for the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, They may become wives to whoever is good in their eyes. Only, they shall become wives within the clan of the tribe of their father.
7An inheritance of the sons of Israel shall not turn from tribe to tribe, for each of the sons of Israel shall cling to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.
8Every daughter who inherits an inheritance from the tribes of the sons of Israel shall become a wife to one from the clan of her father’s tribe, so that the sons of Israel may each possess the inheritance of his fathers.
9An inheritance shall not turn from one tribe to another tribe, for each of the tribes of the sons of Israel shall cling to his own inheritance.
10As God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. commanded Moses, so the daughters of Zelophehad did.
11Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, became wives to the sons of their uncles.
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This verse names them Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Noah. Numbers 26:33 and 27:1 name them Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah. Each verse is printed in its own order.
12They became wives from the clans of the sons of Manasseh son of Joseph, and their inheritance stayed on the tribe of the clan of their father.
13These are the commands and the rules that God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. commanded by the hand of Moses to the sons of Israel, in the plains of Moab by the Jordan of Jericho.
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Mitzvot are commands. Mishpatim are rules, as in the Passover statute.