1 Os chefes de família dos grupos de famílias de Gileade, descendentes diretos de Maquir, Manassés e José, foram falar com Moisés e com os outros chefes de famílias israelitas. Eles disseram a Moisés:
2 — O Senhor Deus ordenou que o senhor distribuísse a terra ao povo por sorteio. Ele também ordenou que o senhor desse a propriedade do nosso parente Zelofeade às suas filhas. 3 Porém, se elas casarem com homens de outra tribo israelita, a terra que foi dada a elas deixará de pertencer à nossa tribo e passará a ser da tribo daqueles com quem elas casarem. Assim irá diminuindo a parte que nos foi dada por sorteio. 4 Porém, quando chegar o Ano da Libertação, a terra delas ficará definitivamente para a tribo daqueles com quem elas casaram e não será mais nossa.
5 Então Moisés, conforme a ordem do Senhor, respondeu aos israelitas o seguinte:
— Os homens da tribo de José têm razão. A ordem do Senhor para as filhas de Zelofeade é esta: 6 Elas podem casar com quem quiserem, contanto que seja com um homem de uma das famílias da tribo do seu pai. 7 Desse modo as terras dos israelitas não passarão de uma tribo para outra. Pois os israelitas devem ficar ligados cada um à terra da tribo dos seus pais. 8 Todas as moças que tiverem terras numa tribo israelita deverão casar com alguém da família da tribo do seu pai. 9 Desse modo cada israelita herdará a terra dos seus antepassados, e ela não passará de uma tribo para outra. Cada tribo continuará ligada à sua própria terra.
10,11 Então Macla, Tirza, Hogla, Milca e Noa, filhas de Zelofeade, fizeram como o Senhor havia ordenado a Moisés e casaram com filhos dos seus tios paternos. 12 Elas casaram dentro dos grupos de famílias da tribo de Manassés, filho de José, e as suas terras ficaram na tribo do pai delas.
13 Foram essas as leis e os mandamentos que o Senhor deu ao povo de Israel por meio de Moisés nas planícies de Moabe, perto do rio Jordão, na altura de Jericó, que ficava no outro lado do rio.
1 And the princes of the fathers of the families of the sons of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of the sons of Joseph, came near and spoke before Moses and before the princes, the heads of the fathers of the sons of Israel,
2 and they said, The LORD commanded my lord to give the land for an inheritance by lot to the sons of Israel; and my lord was also commanded by the LORD to give the inheritance of Zelophehad, our brother unto his daughters.
3 And if they become married to any of the sons of the [other] tribes of the sons of Israel, then their inheritance shall be taken from the inheritance of our fathers and shall be put to the inheritance of the tribe unto which they are received; so shall it be taken from the lot of our inheritance.
4 And when the jubilee of the sons of Israel shall come, then shall their inheritance be put unto the inheritance of the tribe unto which they are received; so shall their inheritance be taken away from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers.
5 Then Moses commanded the sons of Israel according to the word of the LORD, saying, The tribe of the sons of Joseph has spoken well.
6 This [is] the thing which the LORD commands concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, Let them marry as they desire; but they shall marry only within the family of the tribe of their father
7 so that the inheritance of the sons of Israel shall not be passed from tribe to tribe; for each one of the sons of Israel shall cleave to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.
8 And any daughter, that possesses an inheritance in any tribe of the sons of Israel, shall marry one of the family of the tribe of her father so that each man of the sons of Israel may possess the inheritance of his fathers.
9 So that the inheritance shall not change from [one] tribe to another tribe, each one of the tribes of the sons of Israel shall cleave to his own inheritance.
10 As the LORD commanded Moses, so did the daughters of Zelophehad.
11 And [thus] Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, married the sons of their uncles.
12 They were women of the family of the sons of Manasseh, the son of Joseph, and their inheritance remained in the tribe of the family of their father.
13 These [are] the commandments and the rights which the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses unto the sons of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan of Jericho.: