Now I want you to make a promise to me. Promise to me before the Lord, the God of heaven and earth, that you will not allow my son to marry a girl from Canaan. We live among those people but don’t let him marry a Canaanite girl.
Numbers 36:6 - Easy To Read Version This is the Lord’s command to Zelophehad’s daughters: If you want to marry someone, then you must marry someone from your own family group. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 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) 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 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 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, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version 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: |
Now I want you to make a promise to me. Promise to me before the Lord, the God of heaven and earth, that you will not allow my son to marry a girl from Canaan. We live among those people but don’t let him marry a Canaanite girl.
Eleazar died without having sons. He only had daughters. Eleazar’s daughters married their own relatives. Their relatives were Kish’s sons.
“The daughters of Zelophehad are right. They should share the land with their father’s brothers. So give them the land that you would have given to their father.
Their husbands were from Manasseh’s family group, so their land continued to belong to their father’s family and family group.
Moses gave this command to the people of Israel. This command was from the Lord. “These men from Joseph’s family group are right!
You are not the same as those people who don’t believe. So don’t join yourselves to them. Good and bad don’t belong together. Light and darkness cannot have fellowship (sharing).