Numbers 36:9 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

So no inheritance shall be transferred from one tribe to another; for each of the tribes of the people of Israel shall cleave to its own inheritance.’ ”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

Neither shall the inheritance remove from one tribe to another tribe; but every one of the tribes of the children of Israel shall keep himself to his own inheritance.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

So shall no inheritance be transferred from one tribe to another, but each of the tribes of the Israelites shall cling to its own inheritance.

American Standard Version (1901)

So shall no inheritance remove from one tribe to another tribe; for the tribes of the children of Israel shall cleave every one to his own inheritance.

Common English Bible

An inheritance of land may not be transferred from one tribe to another, for the Israelite tribes will each retain its own inheritance.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

and so that the tribes may not be mingled together, but may remain such as they were separated by the Lord."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And that the tribes be not mingled one with another, but remain so

Numbers 36:9 Cross References

1 Kings 21:3

But Naboth said to Ahab, “The Lord forbid that I should give you the inheritance of my fathers.”

Numbers 36:10

The daughters of Zelophehad did as the Lord commanded Moses;

Numbers 36:7

The inheritance of the people of Israel shall not be transferred from one tribe to another; for every one of the people of Israel shall cleave to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.

Numbers 36:8

And every daughter who possesses an inheritance in any tribe of the people of Israel shall be wife to one of the family of the tribe of her father, so that every one of the people of Israel may possess the inheritance of his fathers.

Joshua 24:28

So Joshua sent the people away, every man to his inheritance.

1 Samuel 26:19

Now therefore let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If it is the Lord who has stirred you up against me, may he accept an offering; but if it is men, may they be cursed before the Lord, for they have driven me out this day that I should have no share in the heritage of the Lord, saying, ‘Go, serve other gods.’