³ If they marry any of the men from the other Israelite tribes, their inheritance will be taken away from our fathers’ inheritance and added to that of the tribe into which they marry. Therefore, part of our allotted inheritance would be taken away.

³ These are the heads of the province who stayed in Jerusalem^(A) (but in the villages of Judah each lived on his own property in their towns^(B)—the Israelites, priests, Levites, temple servants, and descendants of Solomon’s servants^(C)—