Numbers 36:9
Modern Translations
New International Version
No inheritance may pass from one tribe to another, for each Israelite tribe is to keep the land it inherits."

New Living Translation
No grant of land may pass from one tribe to another; each tribe of Israel must keep its allotted portion of land.”

English Standard Version
So no inheritance shall be transferred from one tribe to another, for each of the tribes of the people of Israel shall hold on to its own inheritance.’”

Berean Study Bible
No inheritance may be transferred from one tribe to another, for each tribe of Israel must retain its inheritance.”

New American Standard Bible
So no inheritance will be transferred from one tribe to another tribe, for the tribes of the sons of Israel shall each retain possession of its own inheritance.”

NASB 1995
"Thus no inheritance shall be transferred from one tribe to another tribe, for the tribes of the sons of Israel shall each hold to his own inheritance."

NASB 1977
“Thus no inheritance shall be transferred from one tribe to another tribe, for the tribes of the sons of Israel shall each hold to his own inheritance.”

Amplified Bible
So no inheritance shall be transferred from one tribe to another, but each of the tribes of the Israelites shall hold to its own inheritance.”

Christian Standard Bible
No inheritance is to transfer from one tribe to another, because each of the Israelite tribes is to retain its inheritance.”

Holman Christian Standard Bible
No inheritance is to transfer from one tribe to another, because each of the Israelite tribes is to retain its inheritance."

Good News Translation
and the property will not pass from one tribe to another. Each tribe will continue to possess its own property."

GOD'S WORD® Translation
No land may pass from one tribe to another. Each Israelite tribe must keep the land it inherits."

International Standard Version
That way, their inheritance won't be turned over from one tribe to another, because the Israelis are each to maintain their ancestral inheritances."

NET Bible
No inheritance may pass from tribe to tribe. But every one of the tribes of the Israelites must retain its inheritance."
Classic Translations
King James Bible
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.

New King James Version
Thus no inheritance shall change hands from one tribe to another, but every tribe of the children of Israel shall keep its own inheritance.”

King James 2000 Bible
Neither shall the inheritance move from one tribe to another tribe; but every one of the tribes of the children of Israel shall keep to himself his own inheritance.

New Heart English Bible
So shall no inheritance remove from one tribe to another tribe; for the tribes of the children of Israel shall each keep his own inheritance."

World English Bible
So shall no inheritance remove from one tribe to another tribe; for the tribes of the children of Israel shall each keep his own inheritance."

American King James Version
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.

American Standard Version
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.

A Faithful Version
And the inheritance shall not move from one tribe to another tribe. But every one of the tribes of the children of Israel shall keep himself to his own inheritance."

Darby Bible Translation
and the inheritance shall not pass from one tribe to another tribe; for each of the tribes of the children of Israel shall keep to his inheritance.

English Revised Version
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.

Webster's Bible Translation
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.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
Neither shal the inheritance go about from tribe to tribe: but euery one of the tribes of the childre of Israel shal sticke to his own inheritace.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
Neither ought the inheritaunce to go from one tribe to another: but euery one of the tribes of the chyldren of Israel shalbe ioyned to his owne inheritaunce.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
and that the enheritaunce fall not from one trybe to another: but that euery one maye cleue to his awne enheritaunce amonge the trybes of the children of Israel.

Tyndale Bible of 1526
and that the enheritaunce goo not from one trybe to another: but that the trybes of the childern of Israel maye abyde euery man in his awne enheritaunce.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
and the inheritance does not turn around from [one] tribe to another tribe; for each of the tribes of the sons of Israel cleaves to his inheritance.”

Young's Literal Translation
and the inheritance doth not turn round from one tribe to another tribe; for each to his inheritance do they cleave, the tribes of the sons of Israel.'

Smith's Literal Translation
And the inheritance shall not remove from a tribe to another tribe; for the tribes of the sons of Israel shall cleave each to his inheritance.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
And that the tribes be not mingled one with another, but remain so

Catholic Public Domain Version
and so that the tribes may not be mingled together, but may remain such as they were separated by the Lord.”

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
And an inheritance shall not go around from tribe to another tribe, but a man shall be joined by his inheritance to the tribes of the children Israel.”

Lamsa Bible
Neither shall the inheritance be transferred from one tribe to another; but every one of the tribes of the children of Israel shall cleave to his own inheritance.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
So shall no inheritance remove from one tribe to another tribe; for the tribes of the children of Israel shall cleave each one to its own inheritance.'

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And the inheritance shall not go about from one tribe to another, but the children of Israel shall steadfastly continue each in his own inheritance.
















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