Numbers 36:9
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“No inheritance may be transferred from one tribe to another, for each tribe of Israel must retain its inheritance.””
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“No inheritance may be transferred from one tribe to another, for each tribe of Israel must retain its inheritance.””
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Neither shall the inheritance remove from one tribe to another tribe; but every one of the tribes of the children of Israel shall keep himself to his own inheritance.”
King James Version · Public Domain“So shall no inheritance remove from one tribe to another tribe; for the tribes of the children of Israel shall cleave every one to his own inheritance.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“and the inheritance doth not turn round from <FI>one<Fi> tribe to another tribe; for each to his inheritance do they cleave, the tribes of the sons of Israel.'”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Numbers 36:9 — 4 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Numbers 36:7No inheritance in Israel may be transferred from tribe to tribe, because each of the Israelites is to retain the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.
- Joshua 24:28Then Joshua sent the people away, each to his own inheritance.
- 1 Samuel 26:19Now please, may my lord the king hear the words of his servant: If the LORD has stirred you up against me, then may He accept an offering. But if men have done it, may they be cursed in the presence of the LORD! For today they have driven me away from sharing in the inheritance of the LORD, saying, ‘Go, serve other gods.’
- 1 Kings 21:3But Naboth replied, “The LORD forbid that I should give you the inheritance of my fathers.”
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