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^(a)And the heads of the fathers' households of the family of the sons of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of the sons of Joseph, came near and spoke before Moses and before the leaders, the heads of the fathers' households of the sons of Israel,

and they said, "The Lord commanded my lord to give the land by lot to the sons of Israel as an inheritance, and my lord ^(b)was commanded by the Lord to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother to his daughters.

But if they ^[a]marry one of the sons of the other tribes of the sons of Israel, their inheritance will be withdrawn from the inheritance of our fathers and will be added to the inheritance of the tribe to which they belong; thus it will be withdrawn from our allotted inheritance.

When the ^(c)jubilee of the sons of Israel ^[b]comes, then their inheritance will be added to the inheritance of the tribe to which they belong; so their inheritance will be withdrawn from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers."

Then Moses commanded the sons of Israel according to the ^[c]word of the Lord , saying, "The tribe of the sons of Joseph are right in their statements.