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 And the chief fathers of the families of the children of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of the sons of Joseph, came near, and spake before Moses, and before the princes, the chief fathers of the children of Israel: 2 And they said, The LORD commanded my lord to give the land for an inheritance by lot to the children of Israel: and my lord was commanded by the LORD to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother unto his daughters. 3 And if they be married to any of the sons of the other tribes of the children of Israel, then shall their inheritance be taken from the inheritance of our fathers, and shall be put to the inheritance of the tribe whereunto they are received: so shall it be taken from the lot of our inheritance. 4 And when the jubile of the children of Israel shall be, then shall their inheritance be put unto the inheritance of the tribe whereunto they are received: so shall their inheritance be taken away from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers.

5 And Moses commanded the children of Israel according to the word of the LORD, saying, The tribe of the sons of Joseph hath said well. 6 This is the thing which the LORD doth command concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, Let them marry to whom they think best; only to the family of the tribe of their father shall they marry. 7 So shall not the inheritance of the children of Israel remove from tribe to tribe: for every one of the children of Israel shall keep himself to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers. 8 And every daughter, that possesseth an inheritance in any tribe of the children of Israel, shall be wife unto one of the family of the tribe of her father, that the children of Israel may enjoy every man the inheritance of his fathers. 9 Neither shall the inheritance remove from one tribe to another tribe; but every one of the tribes of the children of Israel shall keep himself to his own inheritance. 10 Even as the LORD commanded Moses, so did the daughters of Zelophehad: 11 For Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married unto their father’s brothers’ sons: 12 And 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 judgments, which the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses unto the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho.