C. Lewis - C. S. Lewis Bible - New Revised Standard Version

36 The heads of the ancestral houses of the clans of the descendants of Gilead son of Machir son of Manasseh, of the Josephite clans, came forward and spoke in the presence of Moses and the leaders, the heads of the ancestral houses of the Israelites; 2they said, “The LORD commanded my lord to give the land for inheritance by lot to the Israelites; and my lord was commanded by the LORD to give the inheritance of our brother Zelophehad to his daughters. 3But if they are married into another Israelite tribe, then their inheritance will be taken from the inheritance of our ancestors and added to the inheritance of the tribe into which they marry; so it will be taken away from the allotted portion of our inheritance. 4And when the jubilee of the Israelites comes, then their inheritance will be added to the inheritance of the tribe into which they have married; and their inheritance will be taken from the inheritance of our ancestral tribe.”

5 Then Moses commanded the Israelites according to the word of the LORD, saying, “The descendants of the tribe of Joseph are right in what they are saying. 6This is what the LORD commands concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, ‘Let them marry whom they think best; only it must be into a clan of their father’s tribe that they are married, 7so that no inheritance of the Israelites shall be transferred from one tribe to another; for all Israelites shall retain the inheritance of their ancestral tribes. 8Every daughter who possesses an inheritance in any tribe of the Israelites shall marry one from the clan of her father’s tribe, so that all Israelites may continue to possess their ancestral inheritance. 9No inheritance shall be transferred from one tribe to another; for each of the tribes of the Israelites shall retain its own inheritance.’”

10 The daughters of Zelophehad did as the LORD had commanded Moses. 11Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, married sons of their father’s brothers. 12They were married into the clans of the descendants of Manasseh son of Joseph, and their inheritance remained in the tribe of their father’s clan.

13 These are the commandments and the ordinances that the LORD commanded through Moses to the Israelites in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.

[ 1] Or treaty , or testimony ; Heb eduth

[ 2] Compare verses 9, 16, 24: Heb by their regiments

[ 3] Or treaty , or testimony ; Heb eduth

[ 4] Meaning of Heb uncertain

[ 5] Heb they

[ 6] Meaning of Heb uncertain

[ 7] A term for several skin diseases; precise meaning uncertain

[ 8] That is one separated or one consecrated

[ 9] That is those separated or those consecrated

[ 10] That is those separated or those consecrated

[ 11] That is one separated or one consecrated

[ 12] Heb him

[ 13] Or the cover

[ 14] Or treaty , or testimony ; Heb eduth

[ 15] Heb between the two evenings

[ 16] Heb between the two evenings

[ 17] Or treaty , or testimony ; Heb eduth

[ 18] Gk Syr Vg: Heb lacks by day

[ 19] Or treaty , or testimony ; Heb eduth

[ 20] Meaning of Heb uncertain

[ 21] That is Burning

[ 22] Heb LORD’ S hand too short?

[ 23] Or of Moses from his youth

[ 24] That is Graves of craving

[ 25] Or devout

[ 26] A term for several skin diseases; precise meaning uncertain

[ 27] Heb do not lay sin upon us

[ 28] That is Cluster

[ 29] Or Sea of Reeds

[ 30] Cn: Heb and they confronted Moses, and two hundred fifty men . . . well-known men

[ 31] Heb his

[ 32] Ch 17.1 in Heb

[ 33] Ch 17.16 in Heb

[ 34] Or treaty , or testimony ; Heb eduth

[ 35] Heb as a service of gift

[ 36] Heb it

[ 37] Heb lacks naturally

[ 38] That is Quarrel

[ 39] Heb lacks to his people

[ 40] Heb Destruction

[ 41] Or Sea of Reeds

[ 42] Or fiery ; Heb seraphim

[ 43] Or fiery ; Heb seraph

[ 44] Gk: Heb which is in

[ 45] Meaning of Heb uncertain

[ 46] That is Well

[ 47] Or Jeshimon

[ 48] Gk: Heb and the lords of

[ 49] Gk: Heb we have shot at them; Heshbon has perished

[ 50] Compare Sam Gk: Meaning of MT uncertain

[ 51] Or land of his kinsfolk

[ 52] Meaning of Heb uncertain

[ 53] Heb lacks of Israel

[ 54] Heb him

[ 55] Heb he

[ 56] Or fourth part

[ 57] Or overlooks Jeshimon

[ 58] Or closed or open

[ 59] Traditional rendering of Heb Shaddai

[ 60] Meaning of Heb uncertain

[ 61] Or closed or open

[ 62] Or of Elyon

[ 63] Traditional rendering of Heb Shaddai

[ 64] Or forehead

[ 65] Some Mss read skull

[ 66] Heb Seir, its enemies, a possession

[ 67] Heb lacks take a census of the people : Compare verse 2

[ 68] Or Saul... Saulites

[ 69] Heb clans of Naphtali

[ 70] Heb lacks with me

[ 71] Heb between the two evenings

[ 72] Heb between the two evenings

[ 73] Or and fast

[ 74] Ch 30.1 in Heb

[ 75] Or to fast

[ 76] Or from that day to the next

[ 77] Gk: Heb adds to the war

[ 78] Cn: Heb hurrying

[ 79] Heb beyond

[ 80] That is the villages of Jair

[ 81] Or Sea of Reeds

[ 82] Heb Salt Sea

[ 83] Syr: Heb lacks its

[ 84] Heb without seeing

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Chapter 21

Chapter 22

Chapter 23

Chapter 24

Chapter 25

Chapter 26

Chapter 27

Chapter 28

Chapter 29

Chapter 30

Chapter 31

Chapter 32

Chapter 33

Chapter 34

1 These are the words that Moses spoke to all Israel beyond the Jordan—in the wilderness, on the plain opposite Suph, between Paran and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Di-zahab. 2(By the way of Mount Seir it takes eleven days to reach Kadesh-barnea from Horeb.) 3In the fortieth year, on the first day of the eleventh month, Moses spoke to the Israelites just as the LORD had commanded him to speak to them. 4This was after he had defeated King Sihon of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, and King Og of Bashan, who reigned in Ashtaroth and[ 1] in Edrei. 5Beyond the Jordan in the land of Moab, Moses undertook to expound this law as follows:

6 The LORD our God spoke to us at Horeb, saying, “You have stayed long enough at this mountain. 7Resume your journey, and go into the hill country of the Amorites as well as into the neighboring regions—the Arabah, the hill country, the Shephelah, the Negeb, and the seacoast—the land of the Canaanites and the Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates. 8See, I have set the land before you; go in and take possession of the land that I[ 2] swore to your ancestors, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give to them and to their descendants after them.”