7. so that the inheritance of the Israelites doesn’t transfer from one tribe to another. The Israelites will each retain the tribal inheritance of his ancestral tribe.
8. Every daughter who inherits land from an Israelite tribe must marry into one of the clans of her father’s tribe. In this way each Israelite will own the land of his ancestors.
9. An inheritance of land may not be transferred from one tribe to another, for the Israelite tribes will each retain its own inheritance."
10. Zelophehad’s daughters did as the Lord commanded Moses.
11. Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Noah, Zelophehad’s daughters, married their cousins.
12. They married into the clan of Manasseh, Joseph’s son. Their inheritance remained in the tribe of their father’s clan.
13. These are the commandments and the case laws that the Lord commanded the Israelites through Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho.