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Then the daughters of Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Makir, the son of Manasseh, of the clan of Manasseh the son of Joseph, came near; and these were the names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, and Tirzah.

"Our father died in the desert; he was not in the midst of the company of those who banded together against Yahweh in the company of Korah, but he died in his own sin, and he had no sons.

Why should the name of our father disappear from the midst of his clan because he does not have a son? Give us property in the midst of the brothers of our father."

And you must speak to the Israelites, saying, ‘If a man dies and has no son, you must transfer his inheritance to his daughter.

And if he has no daughter, you must give his inheritance to his brothers.

If he has no brothers, then you must give his inheritance to his father's brothers.

If his father has no brothers, then you must give his inheritance to his nearest relative from his own clan, and he will take possession of it. It will be as a decree of stipulation for the Israelites, just as Yahweh commanded Moses.'"

He will stand before Eleazar the priest, who will ask for him by the decision of the Urim before Yahweh. On his command they will go out, and at his command they will come in, both he and all of the Israelites with him, the entire community."

And he placed his hands on him and commissioned him just as Yahweh spoke by the hand of Moses.

if a man makes a vow for Yahweh or swears an oath with a binding pledge on himself, he must not render his word invalid; he must do all that went out from his mouth.

These are the decrees that Yahweh commanded Moses, as between a husband and his wife, and between a father and his daughter, while her childhood is in her father's house.

Moses sent them, a thousand from each tribe, to the battle, and Phinehas son of Eleazar the priest to the battle with them, and the vessels of the sanctuary and the trumpets of the blast were in his hand.

and everyone of you armed cross the Jordan before Yahweh until he has driven out his enemies from before him,

Nobah went and captured Kenath and its villages, and he called it Nobah after his own name.

or if he hits him in hostility with his hand, and he dies, the one that struck him will put to death the killer when meeting him.

or with any stone, without seeing it dropped on him so that he dies, while he was not seeking his injury,

The community will deliver the killer from the hand of the blood avenger, and the community will restore him to the city of his refuge to which he fled; and he will live there in it until the death of the high priest who was anointed with holy oil.

But if the killer surely goes out of the territory of the city of his refuge to which he fled,

and the blood avenger finds him outside the territory of the city of his refuge, and the blood avenger kills the killer, he will not be guilty of blood

because he must live in the city of his refuge until the death of the high priest. But after the death of the high priest the killer will return to the land of his property.