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And the LORD said unto Moses, Take thee Joshua the son of Nun, a man in whom is the spirit, and lay thine hand upon him;

Which may go out before them, and which may go in before them, and which may lead them out, and which may bring them in; that the congregation of the LORD be not as sheep which have no shepherd.

Let the LORD, the God of the spirits of all flesh, set a man over the congregation,

And Moses spake unto the LORD, saying,

For ye rebelled against my commandment in the desert of Zin, in the strife of the congregation, to sanctify me at the water before their eyes: that is the water of Meribah in Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.

And when thou hast seen it, thou also shalt be gathered unto thy people, as Aaron thy brother was gathered.

And the LORD said unto Moses, Get thee up into this mount Abarim, and see the land which I have given unto the children of Israel.

And if his father have no brethren, then ye shall give his inheritance unto his kinsman that is next to him of his family, and he shall possess it: and it shall be unto the children of Israel a statute of judgment, as the LORD commanded Moses.

And if he have no brethren, then ye shall give his inheritance unto his father"s brethren.

And if he have no daughter, then ye shall give his inheritance unto his brethren.

And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a man die, and have no son, then ye shall cause his inheritance to pass unto his daughter.

The daughters of Zelophehad speak right: thou shalt surely give them a possession of an inheritance among their father"s brethren; and thou shalt cause the inheritance of their father to pass unto them.

And Moses brought their cause before the LORD.

Why should the name of our father be done away from among his family, because he hath no son? Give unto us therefore a possession among the brethren of our father.

Our father died in the wilderness, and he was not in the company of them that gathered themselves together against the LORD in the company of Korah; but died in his own sin, and had no sons.

And they stood before Moses, and before Eleazar the priest, and before the princes and all the congregation, by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, saying,

Then came the daughters of Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of Manasseh the son of Joseph: and these are the names of his daughters; Mahlah, Noah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Tirzah.

These are the commandments, which the LORD commanded Moses for the children of Israel in mount Sinai.

He shall not search whether it be good or bad, neither shall he change it: and if he change it at all, then both it and the change thereof shall be holy; it shall not be redeemed.

And concerning the tithe of the herd, or of the flock, even of whatsoever passeth under the rod, the tenth shall be holy unto the LORD.

And if a man will at all redeem ought of his tithes, he shall add thereto the fifth part thereof.

And all the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land, or of the fruit of the tree, is the LORD"s: it is holy unto the LORD.

None devoted, which shall be devoted of men, shall be redeemed; but shall surely be put to death.

Notwithstanding no devoted thing, that a man shall devote unto the LORD of all that he hath, both of man and beast, and of the field of his possession, shall be sold or redeemed: every devoted thing is most holy unto the LORD.

And if it be of an unclean beast, then he shall redeem it according to thine estimation, and shall add a fifth part of it thereto: or if it be not redeemed, then it shall be sold according to thy estimation.

Only the firstling of the beasts, which should be the LORD"s firstling, no man shall sanctify it; whether it be ox, or sheep: it is the LORD"s.

And all thy estimations shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs shall be the shekel.

In the year of the jubile the field shall return unto him of whom it was bought, even to him to whom the possession of the land did belong.

Then the priest shall reckon unto him the worth of thy estimation, even unto the year of the jubile: and he shall give thine estimation in that day, as a holy thing unto the LORD.

And if a man sanctify unto the LORD a field which he hath bought, which is not of the fields of his possession;