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¶The .xxxvj. Chapter.
1 An order for the mariage of the daughters of Zelaphead. 7 The inheritaunce could not be geuen from one tribe to another.
1 ANd the chiefe fathers [unspec A] of the families of the chyldren of Geliad, the sonne of Machir, the sonne of Manasse, of the kinred of the sonnes of Ioseph, came foorth and spake before Moyses, and before the princes the chiefe fathers of the chyldren of Israel,
2 And sayd: The Lorde commaunded (a) 1.2 my Lorde to geue the land to inherite by lot to the chyldren of Israel: and my Lorde was commaunded by the Lord, to geue the inheritaunce of Zelaphead our brother, vnto his daughters.
3 If they be maryed to any of ye sonnes of (b) 1.3the other tribes of the chyldren of Israel, then shall their inheritaunce be taken from the inheritaunce of our fa∣thers, and shalbe put to the inheritaunce of the tribe which they are receaued in∣to, and so shal it be taken from the lot of our inhertaunce.
4 And when the Iubilee of the children of Israel commeth, then shall their in∣heritaunce be put vnto the inheritaunce of the tribe wherinto they are receaued, and so shall their inheritaunce be taken away from the inheritaunce of the tribe of our fathers.
5 And Moyses commaunded the chyl∣dren of Israel, according to the worde of the Lorde, saying: The tribe of the sonnes of Ioseph haue (c) 1.4 sayd well.
6 This therefore doth the Lorde com∣maunde the daughters of Zelaphead, saying: Let them be wyues, to whom they them selues thinke best: only to the familie of the tribe of their father shall they marry.
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So shall not the inheritaunce of the [unspec B] children of Israel remoue from tribe to tribe: for euery one of the chyldren of Israel shall ioyne hym selfe to the in∣heritaunce of the tribe of his fathers.
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And euery daughter that possesseth any inheritaunce (d) 1.5 in any tribe of the chyldrē of Israel, shalbe wyfe vnto one of the kinred of the tribe of her father, that the chyldren of Israel may enioy euery man the inheritaunce of his fa∣ther.
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Neither ought the inheritaunce to go from one tribe to another: but euery one of the tribes of the chyldren of Is∣rael shalbe ioyned to his owne inheri∣taunce.
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And as the Lord commaunded Moy∣ses, euen so dyd the daughters of Zela∣phead:
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For Mahela, Thirza, Hagla, Milcha, and Noa the daughters of Zelaphead, were maryed vnto their fathers bro∣thers sonnes.
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They were wyues vnto the families of the sonnes of Manasse the sonne of Ioseph, and so their inheritaunce re∣mayned in the tribe of the kinred of their father.
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These are the (e) 1.6 cōmaundementes and lawes whiche the Lorde commaunded by the hande of Moyses vnto the chyl∣dren of Israel, in the fieldes of Moab, by Iordane [towarde] Iericho.* 1.7