Numbers 36:9

Contemporary English Version

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
So shall no inheritance remove from one tribe to another tribe; for the tribes of the children of Yisra'el shall cleave everyone to his own inheritance.

King James Version
Neither shall the inheritance remove from one tribe to another tribe; but every one of the tribes of the children of Israel shall keep himself to his own inheritance.

Lexham English Bible
Therefore an inheritance will not go around from one tribe to another tribe because the tribes of the Israelites will each hold to their own inheritance.'"

English Standard Version
So no inheritance shall be transferred from one tribe to another, for each of the tribes of the people of Israel shall hold on to its own inheritance.'"

New Century Version
The land must not pass from tribe to tribe, and each Israelite tribe will keep the land it received from its ancestors."

New English Translation
No inheritance may pass from tribe to tribe. But every one of the tribes of the Israelites must retain its inheritance."

Amplified Bible
"So no inheritance shall be transferred from one tribe to another, but each of the tribes of the Israelites shall hold to its own inheritance."

New American Standard Bible
"So no inheritance will be transferred from one tribe to another tribe, for the tribes of the sons of Israel shall each retain possession of its own inheritance."

Geneva Bible (1587)
Neither shal the inheritance go about from tribe to tribe: but euery one of the tribes of the childre of Israel shal sticke to his own inheritace.

Legacy Standard Bible
Thus no inheritance shall be transferred from one tribe to another tribe, for the tribes of the sons of Israel shall each hold to his own inheritance."

Complete Jewish Bible
Thus no inheritance will move from one tribe to another, for each of the tribes of the people of Isra'el will hold on to its own inheritance."

Darby Translation
and the inheritance shall not pass from one tribe to another tribe; for each of the tribes of the children of Israel shall keep to his inheritance.

Easy-to-Read Version
So the land must not be passed from tribe to tribe among the Israelites. Each Israelite will keep the land that belonged to their own ancestors."

George Lamsa Translation
Neither shall the inheritance be transferred from one tribe to another; but every one of the tribes of the children of Israel shall cleave to his own inheritance.

Good News Translation
and the property will not pass from one tribe to another. Each tribe will continue to possess its own property."

Christian Standard Bible®
No inheritance is to transfer from one tribe to another, because each of the Israelite tribes is to retain its inheritance.”

Literal Translation
And the inheritance shall not turn from one tribe to another tribe. For the tribes of the sons of Israel shall each one cling to its own inheritance.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
and that the enheritaunce fall not from one trybe to another: but that euery one maye cleue to his awne enheritaunce amonge the trybes of the children of Israel.

American Standard Version
So shall no inheritance remove from one tribe to another tribe; for the tribes of the children of Israel shall cleave every one to his own inheritance.

Bible in Basic English
And no property will be handed from one tribe to another, but every tribe of the children of Israel will keep its heritage.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Neither ought the inheritaunce to go from one tribe to another: but euery one of the tribes of the chyldren of Israel shalbe ioyned to his owne inheritaunce.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
So shall no inheritance remove from one tribe to another tribe; for the tribes of the children of Israel shall cleave each one to its own inheritance.'

King James Version (1611)
Neither shall the inheritance remoue from one tribe to another tribe: but euery one of the tribes of the children of Israel, shall keepe himselfe to his owne inheritance.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the inheritance shall not go about from one tribe to another, but the children of Israel shall steadfastly continue each in his own inheritance.

English Revised Version
So shall no inheritance remove from one tribe to another tribe; for the tribes of the children of Israel shall cleave every one to his own inheritance.

Berean Standard Bible
No inheritance may be transferred from one tribe to another, because each tribe of Israel must retain its inheritance."

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and lynagis be not meddlid to hem silf, but dwelle so,

Young's Literal Translation
and the inheritance doth not turn round from [one] tribe to another tribe; for each to his inheritance do they cleave, the tribes of the sons of Israel.'

Update Bible Version
So no inheritance shall remove from one tribe to another tribe; for the tribes of the sons of Israel shall cleave every one to his own inheritance.

Webster's Bible Translation
Neither shall the inheritance remove from [one] tribe to another tribe; but every one of the tribes of the children of Israel shall keep himself to his own inheritance.

World English Bible
So shall no inheritance remove from one tribe to another tribe; for the tribes of the children of Israel shall cleave everyone to his own inheritance.

New King James Version
Thus no inheritance shall change hands from one tribe to another, but every tribe of the children of Israel shall keep its own inheritance."

New Living Translation
No grant of land may pass from one tribe to another; each tribe of Israel must keep its allotted portion of land."

New Life Bible
No land will go from one family group to another. For the families of Israel will each hold to his own land."

New Revised Standard
No inheritance shall be transferred from one tribe to another; for each of the tribes of the Israelites shall retain its own inheritance.'"

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and no inheritance go round from one tribe to another tribe, - for the tribes of the sons of Israel shall cleave, each one unto his own inheritance.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And that the tribes be not mingled one with another, but remain so

Revised Standard Version
So no inheritance shall be transferred from one tribe to another; for each of the tribes of the people of Israel shall cleave to its own inheritance.'"

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Thus no inheritance shall be transferred from one tribe to another tribe, for the tribes of the sons of Israel shall each hold to his own inheritance."

Contextual Overview

⁵ So Moses told the people that the Lord had said: These men from the Manasseh tribe are right. ⁶ I will allow Zelophehad's daughters to marry anyone, as long as those men belong to one of the clans of the Manasseh tribe. ⁷ Tribal land must not be given to another tribe—it will remain the property of the tribe that received it. ⁸In the future, any daughter who inherits land must marry someone from her own tribe. Israel's tribal land is never to be passed from one tribe to another. ¹⁰Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Noah the daughters of Zelophehad obeyed the Lord and married their uncles' sons ¹² and remained part of the Manasseh tribe. So their land stayed in their father's clan. ¹³ These are the laws that the Lord gave to Moses and the Israelites while they were camped in the lowlands of Moab across the Jordan River from Jericho.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: Genesis 38:8 - General Numbers 36:7 - keep himself

Cross-References

Genesis 19:37
The older daughter named her son Moab, and he is the ancestor of the Moabites.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Neither shall the inheritance remove from one tribe to another,.... Which was one end of the year of jubilee, but that did not sufficiently secure it without this law, as this case shows:

but everyone of the tribes of Israel shall keep himself to his own inheritance; the chief view of which was, that it might clearly appear of what tribe and family the Messiah sprang when he came.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The daughters of Zelophehad had obtained an ordinance Numbers 28:6-11 which permitted the daughters of an Israelite dying without male issue to inherit their father’s property. The chiefs of the Machirites, of whom Zelophehad had been one, now obtain a supplemental enactment, directing that heiresses should marry within their own tribe.

Numbers 36:4

Be taken away - i. e. be permanently taken away. The jubilee year, by not restoring the estate to the tribe to which it originally belonged, would in effect confirm the alienation.

Numbers 36:11

Unto their father’s brothers’ sons - Or more generally, “unto the sons of their kinsmen.”