They said, “Yahweh commanded my lord to give the land as an inheritance by lot to the Israelites, and my lord was commanded by Yahweh to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother to his daughters.
In context
1The heads of the ancestral houses of the clan of the sons of Gilead son of Machir son of Manasseh, from the clans of the sons of Joseph, came forward and spoke before Moses and before the leaders, the heads of the ancestral houses of the Israelites. 2They said, “Yahweh commanded my lord to give the land as an inheritance by lot to the Israelites, and my lord was commanded by Yahweh to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother to his daughters. 3But if they marry any of the men from the other tribes of the Israelites, their inheritance will be taken away from the inheritance of our fathers and added to the inheritance of the tribe into which they marry; so it will be taken away from the portion allotted to us. 4And when the Jubilee comes for the Israelites, their inheritance will be added permanently to the inheritance of the tribe into which they marry, and it will be taken away from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers.”
