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JPS Old Testament

Numbers 36:10

Even as the LORD commanded Moses, so did the daughters of Zelophehad.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Land;   Milcah;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Marriage;  

Dictionaries:

- Holman Bible Dictionary - Father's House;   Mahlah;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Inheritance;   Zelophehad;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Heir Heritage Inheritance;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Zelophehad ;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Government of the Hebrews;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Other Laws;   On to Canaan;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Abiezer;   Daughter;   Heir;   Hoglah;   Inheritance;   Numbers, Book of;   Relationships, Family;   Zelophehad;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
Even as the LORD commanded Moshe, so did the daughters of Tzelohchad:
King James Version
Even as the Lord commanded Moses, so did the daughters of Zelophehad:
Lexham English Bible
Just as Yahweh commanded to Moses, so the daughters of Zelophehad did:
English Standard Version
The daughters of Zelophehad did as the Lord commanded Moses,
New Century Version
Zelophehad's daughters obeyed the Lord 's command to Moses.
New English Translation
As the Lord had commanded Moses, so the daughters of Zelophehad did.
Amplified Bible
The daughters of Zelophehad did as the LORD commanded Moses.
New American Standard Bible
Just as the LORD had commanded Moses, so the daughters of Zelophehad did:
Geneva Bible (1587)
As the Lord commanded Moses, so did the daughters of Zelophehad.
Legacy Standard Bible
Just as Yahweh had commanded Moses, so the daughters of Zelophehad did:
Contemporary English Version
Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Noah the daughters of Zelophehad obeyed the Lord and married their uncles' sons
Complete Jewish Bible
(Maftir) The daughters of Tz'lof'chad did as Adonai had ordered Moshe.
Darby Translation
Even as Jehovah had commanded Moses, so did the daughters of Zelophehad;
Easy-to-Read Version
So Zelophehad's daughters obeyed the Lord 's command to Moses.
George Lamsa Translation
Just as the LORD had commanded Moses, so did the daughters of Zelophehad;
Good News Translation
So Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, did as the Lord had commanded Moses, and they married their cousins.
Christian Standard Bible®
The daughters of Zelophehad did as the Lord commanded Moses.
Literal Translation
As Jehovah commanded Moses, so the daughters of Zelophehad did.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
As the LORDE comaunded Moses, eue so dyd ye doughters of ye Zelaphead,
American Standard Version
Even as Jehovah commanded Moses, so did the daughters of Zelophehad:
Bible in Basic English
So the daughters of Zelophehad did as the Lord gave orders to Moses:
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And as the Lord commaunded Moyses, euen so dyd the daughters of Zelaphead:
King James Version (1611)
Euen as the Lord commanded Moses, so did the daughters of Zelophehad.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
As the Lord commanded Moses, so did they to the daughters of Salpaad.
English Revised Version
Even as the LORD commanded Moses, so did the daughters of Zelophehad:
Berean Standard Bible
So the daughters of Zelophehad did as the LORD had commanded Moses.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
as tho ben departid of the Lord. And the douytris of Salphaat diden, as it was comaundid to hem.
Young's Literal Translation
As Jehovah hath commanded Moses, so have the daughters of Zelophehad done,
Update Bible Version
Even as Yahweh commanded Moses, so did the daughters of Zelophehad:
Webster's Bible Translation
Even as the LORD commanded Moses, so did the daughters of Zelophehad:
World English Bible
Even as Yahweh commanded Moses, so did the daughters of Zelophehad:
New King James Version
Just as the LORD commanded Moses, so did the daughters of Zelophehad;
New Living Translation
The daughters of Zelophehad did as the Lord commanded Moses.
New Life Bible
The daughters of Zelophehad did just as the Lord had told Moses.
New Revised Standard
The daughters of Zelophehad did as the Lord had commanded Moses.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
As Yahweh commanded Moses, so, did the daughters of Zelophehad.
Douay-Rheims Bible
As they were separated by the Lord. And the daughters of Salphaad did as was commanded:
Revised Standard Version
The daughters of Zeloph'ehad did as the LORD commanded Moses;
THE MESSAGE
Zelophehad's daughters did just as God commanded Moses. Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Noah, Zelophehad's daughters, all married their cousins on their father's side. They married within the families of Manasseh son of Joseph and their inheritance-lands stayed in their father's family.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Just as the LORD had commanded Moses, so the daughters of Zelophehad did:

Contextual Overview

5 And Moses commanded the children of Israel according to the word of the LORD, saying: 'The tribe of the sons of Joseph speaketh right. 6 This is the thing which the LORD hath commanded 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. 7 So shall no inheritance of the children of Israel remove from tribe to tribe; for the children of Israel shall cleave every one to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers. 8 And every daughter, that possesseth an inheritance in any tribe of the children of Israel, shall be wife unto one of the family of the tribe of her father, that the children of Israel may possess every man the inheritance of his fathers. 9 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.' 10 Even as the LORD commanded Moses, so did the daughters of Zelophehad. 11 For Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married unto their father's brothers' sons. 12 They were married into the families of the sons of Manasseh the son of Joseph, and their inheritance remained in the tribe of the family of their father. 13 These are the commandments and the ordinances, which the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses unto the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Exodus 39:42, Exodus 39:43, Leviticus 24:23, 2 Chronicles 30:12, Matthew 28:20

Reciprocal: Numbers 26:33 - Zelophehad 1 Chronicles 2:34 - but daughters

Cross-References

Genesis 36:3
and Basemath Ishmael's daughter, sister of Nebaioth.
Genesis 36:4
And Adah bore to Esau Eliphaz; and Basemath bore Reuel;
Genesis 36:35
And Husham died, and Hadad the son of Bedad, who smote Midian in the field of Moab, reigned in his stead; and the name of his city was Avith.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Even as the Lord commanded Moses, so did the daughters of Zelophehad. They married into, the family of their father's tribe, according to the following account.

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.”


 
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