So Moses gave the Israelites a command from the Lord. “The tribe of Joseph’s descendants is right.
“Zelophehad’s daughters are right. You must give them property of their own among their father’s relatives. Turn their father’s property over to them.
When the Israelites’ jubilee year comes, their land will be added to that of the tribe they married into. Then part of the land of our ancestors’ tribe will be gone.”
This is what the Lord commands for Zelophehad’s daughters: They may marry anyone they want to, but only within a family of their ancestor’s tribe.
When the Lord heard the words that you spoke to me, he said, “I have heard what these people said to you. Everything they said was good.