Numbers 36:3-5
1599 Geneva Bible
3 If they be married to any of the sons of the other tribes of the children of Israel, then shall their inheritance be taken away from the inheritance of our fathers, and shall be put unto the inheritance of the tribe whereof they shall be: so shall it be taken away from the lot of our inheritance.
4 Also when the [a]Jubilee of the children of Israel cometh, then shall their inheritance be put unto the inheritance of the tribe whereof they shall be: so shall their inheritance be taken away from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers.
5 Then Moses commanded the children of Israel, according to the word of the Lord, saying, The tribe of the sons of Joseph have said [b]well.
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- Numbers 36:4 Signifying that at no time it could return, for in the Jubilee all things returned to their own tribes.
- Numbers 36:5 For the tribe could not have continued, if the inheritance which was the maintenance thereof should have been alienated to others.
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