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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Numbers 36 NLT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/numbers/36.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/numbers/36-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NLT</a> > Numbers 36</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../numbers/35.htm" title="Numbers 35">◄</a> Numbers 36 <a href="../deuteronomy/1.htm" title="Deuteronomy 1">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New Living Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nlt/esv/numbers/36.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="hdg">Women Who Inherit Property</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/36-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Then the heads of the clans of Gilead—descendants of Makir, son of Manasseh, son of Joseph—came to Moses and the family leaders of Israel with a petition. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/36-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>They said, “Sir, the LORD instructed you to divide the land by sacred lot among the people of Israel. You were told by the LORD to give the grant of land owned by our brother Zelophehad to his daughters. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/36-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>But if they marry men from another tribe, their grants of land will go with them to the tribe into which they marry. In this way, the total area of our tribal land will be reduced. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/36-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Then when the Year of Jubilee comes, their portion of land will be added to that of the new tribe, causing it to be lost forever to our ancestral tribe.”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/36-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>So Moses gave the Israelites this command from the LORD: “The claim of the men of the tribe of Joseph is legitimate. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/36-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>This is what the LORD commands concerning the daughters of Zelophehad: Let them marry anyone they like, as long as it is within their own ancestral tribe. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/36-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>None of the territorial land may pass from tribe to tribe, for all the land given to each tribe must remain within the tribe to which it was first allotted. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/36-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/36-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>No grant of land may pass from one tribe to another; each tribe of Israel must keep its allotted portion of land.”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/36-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>The daughters of Zelophehad did as the LORD commanded Moses. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/36-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Noah all married cousins on their father’s side. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/36-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>They married into the clans of Manasseh son of Joseph. Thus, their inheritance of land remained within their ancestral tribe.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/36-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>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.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><em>Holy Bible</em>, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of <a href="http://www.tyndale.com">Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.</a>, Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. 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