1 Então os principais responsáveis de agregado de Gileade, do sub-grupo de Maquir, da tribo de Manassés, um dos filhos de José, veio ter com Moisés e os demais chefes de Israel, com esta petição:
2 O Senhor deu-vos instruções para repartirem a terra (por sorteio) pelo povo de Israel e para dar a parte do nosso familiar Zelofeade às suas filhas. Mas se elas casarem dentro de outra tribo, a terra delas irá com elas para ser incorporada na tribo dentro da qual casarem, incorporação essa que ficará definitiva com o ano de jubileu. Desta forma a área total da nossa tribo ficará reduzida.
5 Então Moisés respondeu diante de toda a gente, e deu as seguintes instruções da parte do Senhor: Os homens da tribo de José apresentam um requerimento justo. Isto é portanto o que o Senhor disse mais, quanto ao caso das filhas de Zelofeade: que elas casem com quem quiserem, mas que seja sempre dentro da sua própria tribo. Desta forma nenhuma fracção de terra de uma tribo passará para outra tribo, visto que a herança recebida por cada tribo deverá ficar inalterável, tal como foi originalmente distribuído.
8 Portanto toda a rapariga, sendo ela a herdeira, deverá casar na sua própria tribo, para que a terra que lhe pertence não venha a agragar-se a outra tribo. E assim quinhão algum passará dum lado para o outro.
10 As filhas de Zelofeade fizeram tal como o Senhor mandara a Moisés. Estas raparigas - Macla, Tirza, Hogla, Micla e Noa - casaram com homens da sua própria tribo de Manassés, filho de José, de tal forma que a herança dessa tribo não foi alterada.
13 Estes são os mandamentos e os regulamentos que o Senhor deu ao povo de Israel através de Moisés, enquanto estavam acampados nas campinas de Moabe, nas margens do rio Jordão, em frente de Jericó.
1 And the heads of the fathers' [houses] of the family 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' [houses] of the sons of Israel:
2 and they said, Yahweh commanded my lord to give the land for inheritance by lot to the sons of Israel: and my lord was commanded by Yahweh to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother to his daughters.
3 And if they are married to any of the sons of the [other] tribes of the sons 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 will belong: so it will be taken away from the lot of our inheritance.
4 And when it will be the jubilee of the sons of Israel, then their inheritance will be added to the inheritance of the tribe to which they will belong: so their inheritance will be taken away from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers.
5 And Moses commanded the sons of Israel according to the word of Yahweh, saying, The tribe of the sons of Joseph speaks right.
6 This is the thing which Yahweh commands concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, Let them be married to whom they think best; they will be married only into the family of the tribe of their father.
7 So no inheritance of the sons of Israel will remove from tribe to tribe; for the sons of Israel will stick every one to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.
8 And every daughter, that possesses an inheritance in any tribe of the sons of Israel, will be wife to one of the family of the tribe of her father, that the sons of Israel may possess every man the inheritance of his fathers.
9 So no inheritance will remove from one tribe to another tribe; for the tribes of the sons of Israel will stick every one to his own inheritance.
10 Even as Yahweh commanded Moses, so did the daughters of Zelophehad:
11 for Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and 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; and 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 sons of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.