Numbers 36:4

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Even when land is returned to its original owner in the Year of Celebration, we will not get back Zelophehad's land—it will belong to the tribe into which his daughters married.”

Cross References

Isaiah 61:2

This is the year when the LORD God will show kindness to us and punish our enemies. The LORD has sent me to comfort those who mourn,

Leviticus 25:23

No land may be permanently bought or sold. It all belongs to me—it isn't your land, and you only live there for a little while.

Leviticus 25:8

Once every forty-nine years

Numbers 36:3

But if they marry men from other tribes of Israel, the land they receive will become part of that tribe's inheritance and will no longer belong to us.

Numbers 36:5

So Moses told the people that the LORD had said: These men from the Manasseh tribe are right.