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 Then came near the heads of fathers, belonging to the family of the sons of Gilead son of Machir son of Manasseh, out of the families of the sons of Joseph,and spake before Moses, and before the princes, heads of fathers belonging to the sons of Israel;

2 and they saidUnto my lord, did Yahweh give command, to bestow the land as an inheritance, by lot, unto the sons of Israel,my lord, therefore, was commanded by Yahweh, to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother unto his daughter.

3 When, therefore, unto any one from among the sons of the other tribes of the sons of Israel, they become wives their inheritance shall disappear out of the inheritance of our fathers, and be added to the inheritance of the tribe to which they shall be received,and so out of the lot of our inheritance, shall it disappear,

4 And when the jubilee shall come to the sons of Israel, then shall their inheritance be added unto the inheritance of the tribe to which they shall be receivedand, out of the, inheritance of the tribe of our fathers, shall their inheritance disappear.

5 Then Moses commanded the sons of Israel, at the bidding of Yahweh saying,A right thing, are, the tribe of the sons of Joseph, speaking,

6 This, is the thing which Yahweh hath commanded, as to the daughters of Zelophehad saying: Unto whomsoever it may be good in their eyes, let them become wives,save only unto the family of the tribe of their father, let them become wives.

7 So shall no inheritance belonging to the sons of Israel go round from tribe to tribe,for the sons of Israel shall, each one, cleave, unto the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers,

8 And, every daughter possessing all inheritance from among the tribes of the sons of Israel, unto one of the family of the tribe of her father, shall become wife,to the intent that the sons of Israel may possess each one the inheritance of his fathers;

9 and no inheritance go round from one tribe to another tribe,for the tribes of the sons of Israel shall cleave, each one unto his own inheritance.

10 As Yahweh commanded Moses, so, did the daughters of Zelophehad.

11 Thus then did Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milchah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, become wives, unto the sons of their fathers brethren.

12 Unto men from among the families of the son of Manasseh son of Joseph, became they wives,and so their inheritance remained with the tribe of the family of their father.

13 These are the commandments and the regulations which Yahweh gave in charge, by the hand of Moses, unto the sons of Israel,in the waste plains of Moab, by Jordan near Jericho.