Numbers 36:9 — Compare Translations

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English (YLT) 1898 Young's Literal Translation by Robert Young

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.`

English ASV

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.

English Amplified

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

English Amplified Classic Bible 1987

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

English Berean Standard Bible (BSB) 2025

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

English CSB 2017 - Christian Standard Bible

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

English Darby 1890 : Public Domain

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 EASY 2024

No land that belongs to any tribe will become the land of another tribe. So each tribe will keep the land that their ancestors had.’

English ERV 2006 - Only For Website

So the land must not be passed from tribe to tribe among the Israelites. Each Israelite will keep the land that belonged to their own ancestors."

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.'"

English GNT (Good News Translation)

and the property will not pass from one tribe to another. Each tribe will continue to possess its own property.”

English God's Word - GW 1995

No land may pass from one tribe to another. Each Israelite tribe must keep the land it inherits."

English HCSB 2004 - Copyrighted Only For Website

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

English KJV 1611

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.

English LSB

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.”

English MEV 2014 (Modern English Version)

Thus no inheritance will turn from one tribe to another tribe, but every tribe of the Israelites will keep its own inheritance.’ ”

English NASB (New American Standard Bible - 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."

English NASU 1989 - New American Standard Update - Only for Website

Thus, no heritage can pass from one tribe to another, but all the Israelite tribes will retain their own ancestral heritage."

English NET Bible - 2005 (New English Translation)

No inheritance may pass from tribe to tribe. But every one of the tribes of the Israelites must retain its inheritance.”

English NIRV 1996 - Copyrighted only for Website

"Property can't pass from one tribe to another. Each tribe of Israel must keep the land it receives."

English NIV

No inheritance may pass from tribe to tribe, for each Israelite tribe is to keep the land it inherits."

English NKJ 1982

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

English NLT

No inheritance may pass from one tribe to another; each tribe of Israel must hold on to its allotted inheritance of land."

English NRSV 1989 - Only for website

No inheritance shall be transferred from one tribe to another; for each of the tribes of the Israelites shall retain its own inheritance.'"

English RSV (Revised Standard Version)

So no inheritance shall be transferred from one tribe to another; for each of the tribes of the people of Israel shall cleave to its own inheritance.’ ”

English TL (The Living Bible) (1971)

In this way no inheritance shall move from one tribe to another.' “

English Tyndale 1537

and that the inheritance go not from one tribe to another: but that the tribes of the children of Israel, may abide every man in his own inheritance.