Numbers 36
International Children’s Bible
Land for Zelophehad’s Daughters
36 The leaders of Gilead’s family group went to talk to Moses and the leaders of the families of Israel. (Gilead was the son of Makir. Makir was Manasseh’s son, and Manasseh was Joseph’s son.) 2 They said, “The Lord commanded you, our master, to give the land to the Israelites by throwing lots. And the Lord commanded you to give the land of Zelophehad, our brother, to his daughters. 3 His daughters may marry men from other tribes of Israel. Then that land will leave our family. The people of the other tribes will get that land. So we will lose some of our land. 4 The time of Jubilee will come for the Israelites. Then their land will go to other tribes. It will go to the tribes of the people they marry. So their land will be taken away from us. And that was land we received from our fathers.”
5 Then Moses gave the Israelites this command from the Lord: “These men from the tribe of Joseph are right. 6 This is the Lord’s command to Zelophehad’s daughters: You may marry anyone you wish from your own tribe. 7 In this way the Israelites’ land will not pass from tribe to tribe. Each Israelite will keep the land in the tribe that belonged to his ancestors. 8 A woman who inherits her father’s land may marry. But she must marry someone from her own tribe. In this way every Israelite will keep the land that belonged to his ancestors. 9 The land must not pass from tribe to tribe. Each Israelite tribe will keep the land it received from its ancestors.”
10 Zelophehad’s daughters obeyed the Lord’s command to Moses.
11 So Zelophehad’s daughters—Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah and Noah—married their cousins. These were their father’s relatives. 12 Their husbands were from the tribe of Manasseh son of Joseph. So their land stayed in their father’s family group and tribe.
13 These were the laws and commands that the Lord gave to the Israelites. He gave them through Moses. The Israelites were on the plains of Moab by the Jordan River, across from Jericho.
Números 36
O Livro
A herança das filhas de Zelofeade
(Nm 27.1-11)
36 Então os principais responsáveis de agregado de Gileade, do subgrupo 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 pelo povo de Israel, por sorteio, e dar a parte do nosso familiar Zelofeade às suas filhas. 3 Mas se elas casarem dentro de outra tribo, a terra delas irá com elas para ser incorporada na tribo dentro da qual casarem, 4 incorporação 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. 6 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. 7 Desta forma, nenhuma fração de terra de uma tribo passará para outra tribo, visto que a herança recebida por cada tribo deverá ficar inalterada, como foi originalmente distribuída. 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 agregar-se a outra tribo. 9 Desta forma as heranças não passarão duma tribo para outra e as tribos israelitas poderão continuar sempre ligadas cada uma à sua herança.”
10 As filhas de Zelofeade fizeram como o Senhor ordenara a Moisés. 11 Estas raparigas, Mala, Tirza, Hogla, Milca e Noa, casaram-se com seus primos, filhos de tios paternos, 12 da descendência de Manassés, filho de José, de 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 planícies de Moabe, nas margens do rio Jordão, em frente de Jericó.
Numbers 36
New King James Version
Marriage of Female Heirs
36 Now the chief fathers of the families of the (A)children of Gilead the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of the sons of Joseph, came near and (B)spoke before Moses and before the leaders, the chief fathers of the children of Israel. 2 And they said: (C)“The Lord commanded my lord Moses to give the land as an inheritance by lot to the children of Israel, and (D)my lord was commanded by the Lord to give the inheritance of our brother Zelophehad to his daughters. 3 Now if they are married to any of the sons of the other tribes of the children of Israel, then their inheritance will be (E)taken from the inheritance of our fathers, and it will be added to the inheritance of the tribe into which they marry; so it will be taken from the lot of our inheritance. 4 And when (F)the Jubilee of the children of Israel comes, then their inheritance will be added to the inheritance of the tribe into which they marry; so their inheritance will be taken away from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers.”
5 Then Moses commanded the children of Israel according to the word of the Lord, saying: (G)“What the tribe of the sons of Joseph speaks is right. 6 This is what the Lord commands concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, ‘Let them [a]marry whom they think best, (H)but they may marry only within the family of their father’s tribe.’ 7 So the inheritance of the children of Israel shall not change hands from tribe to tribe, for every one of the children of Israel shall (I)keep the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers. 8 And (J)every daughter who possesses an inheritance in any tribe of the children of Israel shall be the wife of one of the family of her father’s tribe, so that the children of Israel each may possess the inheritance of his fathers. 9 Thus no inheritance shall change hands from one tribe to another, but every tribe of the children of Israel shall keep its own inheritance.”
10 Just as the Lord commanded Moses, so did the daughters of Zelophehad; 11 (K)for Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married to the sons of their father’s brothers. 12 They were married into the families of the children of Manasseh the son of Joseph, and their inheritance remained in the tribe of their father’s family.
13 These are the commandments and the judgments which the Lord commanded the children of Israel by the hand of Moses (L)in the plains of Moab by the Jordan, across from Jericho.
Footnotes
- Numbers 36:6 Lit. be wives to
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