4. When the Jubilee comes for the Israelites, their inheritance will be added to that of the tribe into which they marry, and their inheritance will be taken away from the inheritance of our ancestral tribe.”
5. So Moses commanded the Israelites at the word of the Lord, “What the tribe of Joseph’s descendants says is right.
6. This is what the Lord has commanded concerning Zelophehad’s daughters: They may marry anyone they like provided they marry within a clan of their ancestral tribe.
7. An inheritance belonging to the Israelites must not transfer from tribe to tribe, because each of the Israelites is to retain the inheritance of his ancestral tribe.
8. Any daughter who possesses an inheritance from an Israelite tribe must marry someone from the clan of her ancestral tribe, so that each of the Israelites will possess the inheritance of his fathers.
9. No inheritance is to transfer from one tribe to another, because each of the Israelite tribes is to retain its inheritance.”
10. The daughters of Zelophehad did as the Lord commanded Moses.