Discovery BoxNumbers 36:6-8 
Context36:6 This is what 1 the Lord has commanded for Zelophehad’s daughters: ‘Let them marry 2 whomever they think best, 3 only they must marry within the family of their father’s tribe. 36:7 In this way the inheritance of the Israelites will not be transferred 4 from tribe to tribe. But every one of the Israelites must retain the ancestral heritage. 36:8 And every daughter who possesses an inheritance from any of the tribes of the Israelites must become the wife of a man from any family in her father’s tribe, so that every Israelite 5 may retain the inheritance of his fathers.
1 tn Heb “the word that.”
2 tn The idiom again is “let them be for wives for….”
3 tn Heb “to the one who is good in their eyes.”
4 tn Heb “turned aside.”
5 tn The subject is “Israelites” and the verb is plural to agree with it, but the idea is collective as the word for “man” indicates: “so that the Israelites may possess – [each] man the inheritance of his fathers.”
