Numbers 36:1-8: And the chief fathers of the
families of the children of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of
Manasseh, of the families of the sons of Joseph, came near, and spake
before Moses, and before the princes, the chief fathers of the children
of Israel: And they said, The LORD commanded my lord to give the land
for an inheritance by lot to the children of Israel: and my lord was
commanded by the LORD to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother
unto his daughters. And if they be married to any of the sons of the
other tribes of the children of Israel, then shall their inheritance be
taken from the inheritance of our fathers, and shall be put to the
inheritance of the tribe whereunto they are received: so shall it be
taken from the lot of our inheritance. And when the jubile of the
children of Israel shall be, then shall their inheritance be put unto
the inheritance of the tribe whereunto they are received: so shall their
inheritance be taken away from the inheritance of the tribe of our
fathers.
And Moses commanded the
children of Israel according to the word of the LORD, saying, The tribe
of the sons of Joseph hath said well. This is the thing which the LORD
doth command concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, Let them
marry to whom they think best; only to the family of the tribe of their
father shall they marry. So shall not the inheritance of the children of
Israel remove from tribe to tribe: for every one of the children of
Israel shall keep himself to the inheritance of the tribe of his
fathers. 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 enjoy every man the
inheritance of his fathers.