As mentioned above, verse 9 repeats verse 7, with slight variants, thus forming a frame around verse 8.

So no inheritance shall be transferred from one tribe to another: See verse 7. The connector So, which renders the Hebrew waw conjunction (literally “And”), indicates that verse 9 is a repeat of verse 7. Other connectors that do this are “Therefore” (Die Bibel im heutigen Deutsch) and “In this way” (Chewa; similarly Bible en français courant, Parole de Vie, La Biblia: Traducción en Lenguaje Actual).

For each of the tribes of the people of Israel shall cleave to its own inheritance: See verse 7. This sentence may be rendered “Indeed, each Israelite tribe must keep the land it inherits” (similarly TNIV).

Quoted with permission from de Regt, Lénart J. and Wendland, Ernst R. A Handbook on Numbers. (UBS Helps for Translators). Miami: UBS, 2016. For this and other handbooks for translators see here .