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女继承人之结婚条例

36 约瑟后裔的家族中,有玛拿西的孙子、玛吉的儿子基列的子孙,他们族中的首领都前来,在摩西面前,在各家族作首领的领袖面前,和在以色列人面前说: “耶和华曾经吩咐我主要凭抽签把地分给以色列人为业;我主也受了耶和华的吩咐,要把我们兄弟西罗非哈的产业分给他的众女儿。 但是,如果她们嫁给以色列中别的支派的人,她们的产业就必从我们祖宗的产业中被取去,加在他们丈夫支派的产业上;这样,我们抽签所得的产业就失去了。 到了以色列人的禧年,她们的产业就要加在她们丈夫支派的产业上;这样,她们的产业就要从我们祖宗支派的产业中被拿去了。”

摩西照着耶和华的话,吩咐以色列说:“约瑟支派的人说得对。 论到西罗非哈的众女儿,耶和华吩咐的话是这样:‘她们可以随意嫁自己喜欢的人,但是,只能嫁给同族同支派的人作妻子。 这样,以色列人的产业,就不会从一个支派转到另一个支派去;因为以色列人要各自守住自己祖宗支派的产业。 从以色列支派中得了产业的女子,要嫁给自己祖宗支派的人作妻子,好使以色列人可以各自承受自己祖宗的产业。 这样,以色列人的产业,就不会从一个支派转到另一个支派去;因为以色列人的支派要各自守住自己的产业。’”

10 耶和华怎样吩咐摩西,西罗非哈的众女儿就怎样行。 11 西罗非哈的女儿玛拉、得撒、曷拉、密迦、挪阿,都嫁给了自己叔伯的儿子作妻子。 12 她们嫁给了约瑟的儿子玛拿西子孙家族的人作妻子;她们的产业仍然留在自己的支派中。 13 这是耶和华在耶利哥对面,约旦河边的摩押平原,借着摩西向以色列人吩咐的命令和典章。

Inheritance Through Marriage

36 (A)And the heads of the fathers’ households 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 leaders, the heads of the fathers’ households of the sons of Israel, and they said, “Yahweh commanded my lord to give the land by lot to the sons of Israel as an inheritance, and my lord (B)was commanded by Yahweh to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother to his daughters. But if they [a]marry one of the sons of the other tribes of the sons of Israel, their inheritance will be withdrawn from the inheritance of our fathers and will be added to the inheritance of the tribe to which they belong; thus it will be withdrawn from our allotted inheritance. And when the (C)jubilee of the sons of Israel [b]comes, then their inheritance will be added to the inheritance of the tribe to which they belong; so their inheritance will be withdrawn from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers.”

Then Moses commanded the sons of Israel according to the [c]word of Yahweh, saying, “The tribe of the sons of Joseph are right in their statements. (D)This is [d]what Yahweh has commanded concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, ‘Let them marry whoever is good in their sight; only they must marry within the family of the tribe of their father.’ Thus (E)no inheritance of the sons of Israel shall [e]be transferred from tribe to tribe, for the sons of Israel shall each [f]hold to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers. (F)And every daughter who comes into possession of an inheritance of any tribe of the sons of Israel shall be wife to one of the family of the tribe of her father, so that the sons of Israel each may possess the inheritance of his fathers. Thus no inheritance shall [g]be transferred from one tribe to another tribe, for the tribes of the sons of Israel shall each [h]hold to his own inheritance.”

10 Just as Yahweh had commanded Moses, so the daughters of Zelophehad did: 11 (G)And Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad married their uncles’ sons. 12 They married those from the families of the sons of Manasseh the son of Joseph, and their inheritance [i]remained with the tribe of the family of their father.

13 (H)These are the commandments and the judgments which Yahweh commanded to the sons of Israel by the hand of Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan opposite Jericho.

Footnotes

  1. Numbers 36:3 Lit become wives to, so in ch
  2. Numbers 36:4 Lit shall be
  3. Numbers 36:5 Lit mouth
  4. Numbers 36:6 Lit the thing which
  5. Numbers 36:7 Lit turn about
  6. Numbers 36:7 Lit cleave
  7. Numbers 36:9 Lit turn about
  8. Numbers 36:9 Lit cleave
  9. Numbers 36:12 Lit was