8. The daughters throughout the tribes of Israel who are in line to inherit property must marry within their tribe, so that all the Israelites will keep their ancestral property.
9. No grant of land may pass from one tribe to another; each tribe of Israel must keep its allotted portion of land.”
10. The daughters of Zelophehad did as the lord commanded Moses.
11. Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Noah all married cousins on their father’s side.
12. They married into the clans of Manasseh son of Joseph. Thus, their inheritance of land remained within their ancestral tribe.
13. These are the commands and regulations that the lord gave to the people of Israel through Moses while they were camped on the plains of Moab beside the Jordan River, across from Jericho.