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And the rulers of the tribe of the sons of Galaad son of Machir son of Manasse, from the tribe of the sons of Joseph, came forward and spoke before Moses and before Eleazar the priest and before the rulers of the ancestral houses of the sons of Israel,
and they said, "The Lord commanded our lord to give the land of the inheritance by lot to the sons of Israel; and the Lord ordered the lord to give the inheritance of Salpaad our brother to his daughters.
And they shall become wives to one of the tribes of the sons of Israel, and their lot shall be taken away from the possession of our fathers, and shall be added to the inheritance of the tribe to whom they become wives; and from the lot of our inheritance it shall be taken away.
And if the release of the sons of Israel comes, then their inheritance shall be added to the inheritance of the tribe to whom they become wives; and from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers' house their inheritance shall be taken away."
This is the word which the Lord ordered concerning the daughters of Salpaad, saying: To whomever it pleases before them, let them become wives; only let them become wives from the clan of their father.
And an inheritance shall not be turned about for the sons of Israel from tribe to tribe, for each one — the sons of Israel shall cleave to the inheritance of the tribe of his father's house.
And every daughter who inherits as next of kin an inheritance from the tribes of the sons of Israel shall become a wife to one of those from the clan of her father, so that the sons of Israel may each inherit as next of kin his paternal inheritance.
These are the commandments and the ordinances and the judgments which the Lord commanded by the hand of Moses at the west of Moab, at the Jordan, opposite Jericho.