Quotes About Covenant

The Gadites and Reubenites replied, “As the LORD has spoken to your servants, so we will do.

And the Gadites built up Dibon, Ataroth, Aroer,

You are to take possession of the land and settle in it, for I have given you the land to possess.

And then I will do to you what I had planned to do to them.”

Then the LORD said to Moses,

cross south of the Ascent of Akrabbim, continue to Zin, and go south of Kadesh-barnea. Then it will go on to Hazar-addar and proceed to Azmon,

where it will turn from Azmon, join the Brook of Egypt, and end at the Sea.

Then the border will go down along the Jordan and end at the Salt Sea. This will be your land, defined by its borders on all sides.”

So Moses commanded the Israelites, “Apportion this land by lot as an inheritance. The LORD has commanded that it be given to the nine and a half tribes.

For the tribes of the Reubenites and Gadites, along with the half-tribe of Manasseh, have already received their inheritance.

Then the LORD said to Moses,

“These are the names of the men who are to assign the land as an inheritance for you: Eleazar the priest and Joshua son of Nun.

Elidad son of Chislon from the tribe of Benjamin;

Bukki son of Jogli, a leader from the tribe of Dan;

Hanniel son of Ephod, a leader from the tribe of Manasseh son of Joseph;

Kemuel son of Shiphtan, a leader from the tribe of Ephraim;

Eli-zaphan son of Parnach, a leader from the tribe of Zebulun;

and Pedahel son of Ammihud, a leader from the tribe of Naphtali.”

Again the LORD spoke to Moses on the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho:

The pasturelands around the cities you are to give the Levites will extend a thousand cubits from the wall on every side.

Then the LORD said to Moses,

But if they marry any of the men from the other tribes of Israel, their inheritance will be withdrawn from the portion of our fathers and added to the tribe into which they marry. So our allotted inheritance would be taken away.

No 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.

So the daughters of Zelophehad did as the LORD had commanded Moses.