Numbers 36:6 - Tree of Life Version

⁶ This is the word that Adonai commands for the daughters of Zelophehad saying: They may become wives to whomever they please, as long as they marry within the family of the tribe of their father.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ This is the thing which the LORD doth command concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, Let them marry to whom they think best; only to the family of the tribe of their father shall they marry.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ This is what the Lord commands concerning the daughters of Zelophehad: Let them marry whom they think best; only they shall marry within the family of the tribe of their father.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ This is the thing which Jehovah doth command concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, Let them be married to whom they think best; only into the family of the tribe of their father shall they be married.

Common English Bible

⁶ This is the word that the LORD commands to Zelophehad’s daughters: They may marry whomever seems best to them, but they may only marry into one of the clans of their ancestral tribe,

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ And so, this is the law which has been promulgated by the Lord about the daughters of Zelophehad: Let them marry whomever they may wish, but only among the men of their own tribe,

Numbers 36:6 Cross References

Genesis 24:3

so that I may make you take an oath by Adonai, the God of heaven and the God of earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from among the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I am dwelling.

1 Chronicles 23:22

Eleazar died having no sons but only daughters; the sons of Kish, their kinsmen, took them as wives.

Numbers 27:7

“The daughters of Zelophehad are right in saying you should give them property by inheritance among their father’s relatives. You are to turn over the inheritance of their father to them.”

Numbers 36:12

They married within the families of the sons of Manasseh son of Joseph, and their inheritance remained within the tribe of their ancestral family.

Numbers 36:5

Then Moses commanded Bnei-Yisrael at the mouth of Adonai, “What the tribe of the descendants of Joseph is saying is correct.

2 Corinthians 6:14

Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership is there between righteousness and lawlessness? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?