◄ Numbers 36:7 ►
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Good News Translation
The property of every Israelite will remain attached to his tribe.

New Revised Standard Version
so that no inheritance of the Israelites shall be transferred from one tribe to another; for all Israelites shall retain the inheritance of their ancestral tribes.

Contemporary English Version
Tribal land must not be given to another tribe--it will remain the property of the tribe that received it.

New American Bible
so that no heritage of the Israelites will pass from one tribe to another, but all the Israelites will retain their own ancestral heritage.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Lest the possession of the children of Israel be mingled from tribe to tribe. For all men shall marry wives of their own tribe and kindred:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Lest the possession of the children of Israel be mingled from tribe to tribe. For all men shall marry wives of their own tribe and kindred:

for every one.

Numbers 36:9 And that the tribes be not mingled one with another, but remain so

1 Kings 21:3 Naboth answered him: The Lord be merciful to me, and not let me give thee the inheritance of my fathers.

Context
Zelophehad's Daughters Marry
…6And this is the law promulgated by the Lord touching the daughters of Salphaad: Let them marry to whom they will, only so that it be to men of their own tribe. 7Lest the possession of the children of Israel be mingled from tribe to tribe. For all men shall marry wives of their own tribe and kindred:8And all women shall take husbands of the same tribe: that the inheritance may remain in the families.…
Cross References
1 Kings 21:3
Naboth answered him: The Lord be merciful to me, and not let me give thee the inheritance of my fathers.

Numbers 36:8
And all women shall take husbands of the same tribe: that the inheritance may remain in the families.

Numbers 36:6
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