1 Então se chegaram os que eram cabeças das casas paternas da família dos filhos de Gileade, filho de Maquir, filho de Manassés, das famílias dos filhos de José, e falaram perante Moisés e perante os príncipes, cabeças das casas paternas dos filhos de Israel;

2 e disseram: Jeová ordenou a meu senhor que por sorte repartisse a terra em herança aos filhos de Israel; e meu senhor recebeu ordem de Jeová de dar a herança de Zelofeade, nosso irmão, a suas filhas.

3 Se elas se casarem com alguns dos filhos das outras tribos dos filhos de Israel, a sua herança será retirada da herança de nossos pais, e acrescentada à herança da tribo a que vierem a pertencer; assim será tirada da sorte da nossa herança.

4 Quando chegar o jubileu dos filhos de Israel, a herança delas será acrescentada à herança da tribo a que pertencerem; assim a sua herança será retirada da herança da tribo de nossos pais.

5 Então Moisés ordenou aos filhos de Israel segundo a palavra de Jeová, dizendo: A tribo dos filhos de José fala o que é justo.

6 Isto é o que Jeová ordena no tocante às filhas de Zelofeade, dizendo: Casem com quem quiserem; contanto que se casem na família da tribo de seu pai.

7 Assim a herança dos filhos de Israel não passará de tribo em tribo, porque os filhos de Israel se apegarão cada um à herança da tribo de seus pais.

8 Todas as filhas, que possuírem herança em qualquer tribo dos filhos de Israel, tomarão maridos da família da tribo de seu pai, para que os filhos de Israel possuam cada um a herança de seus pais.

9 Assim nenhuma herança passará de uma tribo a outra, porque as tribos dos filhos de Israel se apegarão cada uma à sua herança.

10 Como Jeová ordenou a Moisés, assim fizeram as filhas de Zelofeade;

11 pois Maalá, Tirza, Hogla, Milca e Noa, filhas de Zelofeade, se casaram com os filhos dos seus tios paternos.

12 Casaram-se nas famílias dos filhos de Manassés, filho de José, e a sua herança permaneceu na tribo da família de seu pai.

13 Estes são os mandamentos e os juízos, que Jeová, por intermédio de Moisés, ordenou aos filhos de Israel, nas planícies de Moabe junto ao Jordão na altura de Jericó.

1 The heads of the fathers’ households of the family of the children 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’ households of the children of Israel. 2 They said, "Yahweh commanded my lord to give the land for inheritance by lot to the children of Israel. My lord was commanded by Yahweh to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother to his daughters. 3 If they are married to any of the sons of the other tribes of the children of Israel, then their inheritance will be taken away from the inheritance of our fathers, and will be added to the inheritance of the tribe to which they shall belong. So it will be taken away from the lot of our inheritance. 4 When the jubilee of the children of Israel comes, then their inheritance will be added to the inheritance of the tribe to which they shall belong. So their inheritance will be taken away from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers."

5 Moses commanded the children of Israel according to Yahweh’s word, saying, "The tribe of the sons of Joseph speak what is right. 6 This is the thing which Yahweh commands concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, ‘Let them be married to whom they think best, only they shall marry into the family of the tribe of their father. 7 So shall no inheritance of the children of Israel move from tribe to tribe; for the children of Israel shall all keep the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers. 8 Every daughter who possesses an inheritance in any tribe of the children of Israel shall be wife to one of the family of the tribe of her father, that the children of Israel may each possess the inheritance of his fathers. 9 So shall no inheritance move from one tribe to another tribe; for the tribes of the children of Israel shall each keep his own inheritance.’"

10 The daughters of Zelophehad did as Yahweh commanded Moses: 11 for Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married to their father’s brothers’ sons. 12 They were married into the families of the sons of Manasseh the son of Joseph. Their inheritance remained in the tribe of the family of their father.

13 These are the commandments and the ordinances which Yahweh commanded by Moses to the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.