Numbers 36 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

¹ And this is the law promulgated by the Lord touching the daughters of Salphaad: Let them marry to whom they will, only so that it be to men of their own tribe.

² Lest the possession of the children of Israel be mingled from tribe to tribe. For all men shall marry wives of their own tribe and kindred:

³ And all women shall take husbands of the same tribe: that the inheritance may remain in the families,

⁴ And that the tribes be not mingled one with another, but remain so

⁵ 0 As they were separated by the Lord. And the daughters of Salphaad did as was commanded:

⁶ 1 And Maala, and Thersa, and Hegla, and Melcha, and Noa were married to the sons of their uncle by their father

⁷ 2 Of the family of Manasses, who was the son of Joseph: and the possession that had been allotted to them, remained in the tribe and family of their father.

⁸ 3 These are the commandments and judgments, which the Lord commanded by the hand of Moses to the children of Israel, in the plains of Moab upon the Jordan over against Jericho.

⁹ These are the words, which Moses spoke to all Israel beyond the Jordan, in the plain wilderness, over against the Red Sea, between Pharan and Thophel and Laban and Haseroth, where there is very much gold:

¹⁰ Eleven days' journey from Horeb by the way of Mount Seir to Cadesbarne.

¹¹ In the fortieth year, the eleventh month, the first day of the month, Moses spoke to the children of Israel all that the Lord had commanded him to say to them:

¹² After that he had slain Sehon king of the Amorrhites, who dwelt in Hesebon: and Og king of Basan who abode in Astaroth, and in Edrai,

¹³ Beyond the Jordan in the land of Moab. And Moses began to expound the law, and to say: