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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Then drew near the daughters of Zelophehad the son of Hepher, son of Gilead, son of Machir, son of Manasseh, from the clans of Manasseh the son of Joseph. The names of his daughters were: Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2And they stood before Moses and before Eleazar the priest and before the chiefs and all the congregation, at the entrance of the tent of meeting, saying, |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3“Our father died in the wilderness. He was not among the company of those who gathered themselves together against the LORD in the company of Korah, but died for his own sin. And he had no sons. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Why should the name of our father be taken away from his clan because he had no son? Give to us a possession among our father’s brothers.” |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Moses brought their case before the LORD. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6And the LORD said to Moses, |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7“The daughters of Zelophehad are right. You shall give them possession of an inheritance among their father’s brothers and transfer the inheritance of their father to them. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8And you shall speak to the people of Israel, saying, ‘If a man dies and has no son, then you shall transfer his inheritance to his daughter. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9And if he has no daughter, then you shall give his inheritance to his brothers. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10And if he has no brothers, then you shall give his inheritance to his father’s brothers. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11And if his father has no brothers, then you shall give his inheritance to the nearest kinsman of his clan, and he shall possess it. And it shall be for the people of Israel a statute and rule, as the LORD commanded Moses.’” |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12The LORD said to Moses, “Go up into this mountain of Abarim and see the land that I have given to the people of Israel. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13When you have seen it, you also shall be gathered to your people, as your brother Aaron was, |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14because you rebelled against my word in the wilderness of Zin when the congregation quarreled, failing to uphold me as holy at the waters before their eyes.” (These are the waters of Meribah of Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.) |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Moses spoke to the LORD, saying, |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16“Let the LORD, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the congregation |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17who shall go out before them and come in before them, who shall lead them out and bring them in, that the congregation of the LORD may not be as sheep that have no shepherd.” |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18So the LORD said to Moses, “Take Joshua the son of Nun, a man in whom is the Spirit, and lay your hand on him. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19Make him stand before Eleazar the priest and all the congregation, and you shall commission him in their sight. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20You shall invest him with some of your authority, that all the congregation of the people of Israel may obey. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21And he shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who shall inquire for him by the judgment of the Urim before the LORD. At his word they shall go out, and at his word they shall come in, both he and all the people of Israel with him, the whole congregation.” |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22And Moses did as the LORD commanded him. He took Joshua and made him stand before Eleazar the priest and the whole congregation, |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23and he laid his hands on him and commissioned him as the LORD directed through Moses. |
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