¶ An ordre for the maryage of the doughters of zelaphead. One of the trybes may not marrye with another.
CAPI. XXXVI.
ANd the auncyent fathers of the chyl∣dren [unspec A] of Gilead the son of Machir the sonne of Manasse of the kynred of the chyldren of Ioseph, came forth and spake be∣fore Moses, and the prynces, and auncyent fathers of the chyldren of Israell, and sayde. * 1.1 The Lorde cōmaunded my Lorde, to gyue the land to enheryte by lot to the chyldren of Israell. And my lorde cōmaunded in Gods behalfe, to gyue the enherytaunce of * 1.2 Zela∣phead our brother vnto his doughters.
Whom yf any of the sonnes of the other [unspec B] tribes of Israel toke to wyues, thē shal theyr enherytaunce be taken from the enheritaūce of our fathers, and shall be put vnto the en∣herytaunce of the trybe which they are recey∣ued into, and shall be taken from the lot of our enherytaunce. And when the yere of Iu∣bilye of the chyldren of Israell cōmeth, then shall theyr enherytaunce be put vnto the en∣herytaunce of the Trybe where into they are receyued: and so shall theyr enherytaunce be taken away frō the enherytaunce of the tribe of oure fathers. And Moses cōmaunded the chyldren of Israell, accordynge to the worde of the Lorde, sayenge: The chyldren of the trybe of Ioseph haue sayde well.
This therfore doth the lorde cōmaund the [unspec C] doughters of Zelaphead, saynge: * 1.3 let them be wyues to whome they them selues thynke best, only to the kynred and trybe of theyr fa∣ther shall they marrye, so shall not the enhe∣rytaunce of the Chyldren of Israell remoue from trybe to trybe, when the chyldren of Is∣rael abyde euery man in the enheritaunce of the trybe of his fathers. And euery doughter that possesseth any enheritaunce in any tribe of the chyldren of Israel, shall be wyfe vnto one which is of the kynred of the trybe of h••r father, that the chyldren of Israel may enioy euery man the enherytaunce of his fathers. Neyther ought the enheryaunce to go from one trybe to an other: but euery one of the tri¦bes of the chyldren of Israell, must abyde in his owne enherytaunce.
And as the Lorde commaunded Moses, [unspec D] euē so dyd the doughters of Zelaphead. And Mahela, Thirza, Hagla, Milcha and No•• were maryed vnto theyr Fathers brothers sonnes, which were of the kynred of the chyl∣dren of Manasses the sonne of Ioseph: and so theyr enherytaunce remayned in the trybe of the kynred of theyr father.
These are the cōmaundements & lawes which the Lorde cōmaunded by the hande of Moses, vnto the chyldrē of Israel in the feld{is} of Moab by Iordan, ouer agaynst Ierico.