1 Joosefista polveutuvan Gileadin, Makirin pojan, Manassen pojanpojan, suvun päämiehet tulivat Mooseksen ja Israelin sukukuntien johtomiesten eteen

3 Mutta jos he menevät naimisiin johonkin muuhun heimoon kuuluvan israelilaisen miehen kanssa, heidän perintöosansa erotetaan meidän sukumme perintömaasta ja liitetään sen heimon perintöosaan, johon he siirtyvät. Se osa otetaan pois meille langenneesta osuudesta.

6 Näin Herra on säätänyt Selofhadin tyttärien asiasta: He voivat avioitua kenen kanssa haluavat, kunhan menevät naimisiin isänsä sukukuntaan kuuluvan miehen kanssa.

7 Israelilaisten maaomaisuus ei saa siirtyä heimolta toiselle, vaan kaikkien on pidettävä kiinni oman heimonsa perintömaista.

8 Sen tähden tulee jokaisen Israelin heimoihin kuuluvan tyttären, joka perii isänsä maat, mennä naimisiin isänsä sukukuntaan kuuluvan miehen kanssa. Näin isien omistamat maat kulkevat perintönä siten,

10 Selofhadin tyttäret noudattivat Herran Moosekselle antamaa käskyä.

11 Mahla, Tirsa, Hogla, Milka ja Noa, Selofhadin tyttäret, menivät naimisiin setiensä poikien kanssa.

12 Heidät otettiin vaimoiksi Joosefin pojan Manassen sukuun, ja näin heille tuleva osuus maasta pysyi heidän isänsä suvulla ja heimolla.

13 Nämä olivat ne käskyt ja säädökset, jotka Herra käski Mooseksen ilmoittaa israelilaisille Moabin tasangolla Jordanin varrella vastapäätä Jerikoa.

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.