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Now if they should be married to one of the men[a] from another Israelite tribe, their inheritance would be taken from the inheritance of our fathers and added to the inheritance of the tribe into which they marry.[b] As a result, it will be taken from the lot of our inheritance.

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 36:3 tn “Men” is understood; it says “to one from the sons of the tribes of the Israelites for a wife,” or if he has her for a wife.
  2. Numbers 36:3 tn Heb “which they will be to them,” meaning, to those who have them, i.e., the marriages.

Now suppose they marry men from other Israelite tribes; then their inheritance will be taken from our ancestral inheritance and added to that of the tribe they marry into. And so part of the inheritance allotted to us will be taken away.

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