God

ADONAI told Moshe

Moshe gave this order to the people of Isra'el: "This is the land in which you will receive inheritances by lot, which ADONAI has ordered to give to the nine tribes and the half-tribe.

ADONAI said to Moshe,

These are the ones whom ADONAI ordered to divide the inheritance among the people of Isra'el in the land of Kena'an.

In the plains of Mo'av by the Yarden, across from Yericho, ADONAI said to Moshe,

ADONAI said to Moshe,

No, you are not to defile the land in which you live and in which I live; for I, ADONAI, live among the people of Isra'el.'"

They said, "ADONAI ordered my lord to give by lot the land to be inherited by the people of Isra'el, and my lord was ordered by ADONAI to give the inheritance of our kinsman Tz'lof'chad to his daughters.

Moshe gave this order to the people of Isra'el, in keeping with the word of ADONAI : "The tribe of the descendants of Yosef is right in what it says.

Here is what ADONAI has ordered concerning the daughters of Tz'lof'chad: 'Let them be married to whomever they think best, but they must marry only into a family from their father's tribe.

The daughters of Tz'lof'chad did as ADONAI had ordered Moshe.

These are the mitzvot and rulings which ADONAI gave through Moshe to the people of Isra'el in the plains of Mo'av by the Yarden, across from Yericho. 4 1-2

On the first day of the eleventh month of the fortieth year, Moshe spoke to the people of Isra'el, reviewing everything ADONAI had ordered him to tell them.

"ADONAI spoke to us in Horev. He said, 'You have lived long enough by this mountain.

I have set the land before you! Go in, and take possession of the land ADONAI swore to give to your ancestors Avraham, Yitz'chak and Ya'akov, and their descendants after them.'

"At that time I told you, 'You are too heavy a burden for me to carry alone.

ADONAI your God has multiplied your numbers, so that there are as many of you today as there are stars in the sky.

May ADONAI, the God of your ancestors, increase you yet a thousandfold and bless you, as he has promised you!

You are not to show favoritism when judging, but give equal attention to the small and to the great. No matter how a person presents himself, don't be afraid of him; because the decision is God's. The case that is too hard for you, bring to me and I will hear it.'

"So we left Horev and went through all that vast and fearsome desert which you saw on the way to the hill-country of the Emori, as ADONAI our God ordered us; and we arrived at Kadesh-Barnea.

There I said to you, 'You have come to the hill-country of the Emori, which ADONAI our God is giving to us.

Look! ADONAI your God has placed the land before you. Go up, take possession, as ADONAI, the God of your ancestors, has told you. Don't be afraid, don't be dismayed.'

They took some of the produce of the land and brought it down to us; they also brought back word to us -'The land ADONAI our God is giving to us is good.'

"But you would not go up. Instead you rebelled against the order of ADONAI your God;

and in your tents you complained, 'It's because ADONAI hated us that he has brought us out of the land of Egypt, only to hand us over to the Emori to destroy us.