The Daughters of Zelophehad (Numbers 36:1–13)
1 DRA Then came the daughters of Salphaad, the son of Hepher, the son of Galaad, the son of Machir, the son of Manasses, who was the son of Joseph: and their names are Maala, and Noa, and Hegla, and Melcha, and Thersa. BSB BSB: Now the daughters of Zelophehad son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, belonged to the clans of Manasseh son of Joseph. These were the names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah. They approached
2 DRA And they stood before Moses and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the people at the door of the tabernacle of the covenant, and said: BSB BSB: the entrance to the Tent of Meeting, stood before Moses, Eleazar the priest, the leaders, and the whole congregation, and said,
3 DRA Our father died in the desert, and was not in the sedition, that was raised against the Lord under Core, but he died in his own sin: and he had no male children. Why is his name taken away out of his family, because he had no son? Give us a possession among the kinsmen of our father. BSB BSB: “Our father died in the wilderness, but he was not among the followers of Korah who gathered together against the LORD. Instead, he died because of his own sin, and he had no sons.
5 DRA And Moses referred their cause to the judgment of the Lord. And the Lord said to him: BSB BSB: So Moses brought their case before the LORD,
6 DRA The daughters of Salphaad demand a just thing: Give them a possession among their father’s kindred, and let them succeed him in his inheritance. BSB BSB: and the LORD answered him,
7 DRA And to the children of Israel thou shalt speak these things: BSB BSB: “The daughters of Zelophehad speak correctly. You certainly must give them property as an inheritance among their father’s brothers and transfer their father’s inheritance to them.
8 DRA When a man dieth without a son, his inheritance shall pass to his daughter. BSB BSB: Furthermore, you shall say to the Israelites, ‘If a man dies and leaves no son, you are to transfer his inheritance to his daughter.
9 DRA If he have no daughter, his brethren shall succeed him. BSB BSB: If he has no daughter, give his inheritance to his brothers.
10 DRA And if he have no brethren, you shall give the inheritance to his father’s brethren. BSB BSB: If he has no brothers, give his inheritance to his father’s brothers.
11 DRA But if he have no uncles by the father, the inheritance shall be given to them that are the next akin. And this shall be to the children of Israel sacred by a perpetual law, as the Lord hath commanded Moses. BSB BSB: And if his father has no brothers, give his inheritance to the next of kin from his clan, that he may take possession of it. This is to be a statutory ordinance for the Israelites, as the LORD has commanded Moses.’”
Moses Requests a Successor (Deuteronomy 3:23–29)
12 DRA The Lord also said to Moses: Go up into this mountain Abarim, and view from thence the land which I will give to the children of Israel. BSB BSB: Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go up this mountain of the Abarim range and see the land that I have given the Israelites.
13 DRA And when thou shalt have seen it, thou also shalt go to thy people, as thy brother Aaron is gone: BSB BSB: After you have seen it, you too will be gathered to your people, as your brother Aaron was;
14 DRA Because you offended me in the desert of Sin in the contradiction of the multitude, neither would you sanctify me before them at the waters. These are the waters of contradiction in Cades of the desert of Sin. BSB BSB: for when the congregation contended in the Wilderness of Zin, both of you rebelled against My command to show My holiness in their sight regarding the waters.” Those were the waters of Meribah in Kadesh, in the Wilderness of Zin.
15 DRA And Moses answered him: BSB BSB: So Moses appealed to the LORD,
16 DRA May the Lord the God of the spirits of all flesh provide a man, that may be over this multitude: BSB BSB: “May the LORD, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the congregation
17 DRA And may go out and in before them, and may lead them out, or bring them in: lest the people of the Lord be as sheep without a shepherd. BSB BSB: who will go out and come in before them, and who will lead them out and bring them in, so that the congregation of the LORD will not be like sheep without a shepherd.”
Joshua to Succeed Moses (Deuteronomy 31:1–8)
18 DRA And the Lord said to him: Take Josue the son of Nun, a man in whom is the Spirit, and put thy hand upon him. BSB BSB: And the LORD replied to Moses, “Take Joshua son of Nun, a man with the Spirit in him, and lay your hands on him.
19 DRA And he shall stand before Eleazar the priest and all the multitude: BSB BSB: Have him stand before Eleazar the priest and the whole congregation, and commission him in their sight.
20 DRA And thou shalt give him precepts in the sight of all, and part of thy glory, that all the congregation of the children of Israel may hear him. BSB BSB: Confer on him some of your authority, so that the whole congregation of Israel will obey him.
21 DRA If any thing be to be done, Eleazar the priest shall consult the Lord for him. He and all the children of Israel with him, and the rest of the multitude shall go out and go in at his word. BSB BSB: He shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who will seek counsel for him before the LORD by the judgment of the Urim. At his command, he and all the Israelites with him—the entire congregation—will go out and come in.”
22 DRA Moses did as the Lord had commanded. And when he had taken Josue, he set him before Eleazar the priest, and all the assembly of the people, BSB BSB: Moses did as the LORD had commanded him. He took Joshua, had him stand before Eleazar the priest and the whole congregation,
23 DRA And laying his hands on his head, he repeated all things that the Lord had commanded. BSB BSB: and laid his hands on him and commissioned him, as the LORD had instructed through Moses.