民数记 36
Chinese Contemporary Bible (Simplified)
女子继承产业的律例
36 基列是约瑟之子玛拿西的孙子，玛吉的儿子。他宗族中的各族长来见摩西和做以色列人首领的各族长，说： 2 “耶和华曾吩咐我主用抽签的方式把土地分给以色列人，还吩咐我主将我们兄弟西罗非哈的产业分给他的女儿们。 3 但如果她们嫁给其他支派的人，从我们祖业中分给她们的产业就会归入她们夫家的支派。这样的话，我们抽签分到的土地就会减少。 4 到了以色列人的禧年，这些女儿的产业就会归给她们丈夫的支派，我们支派的祖业就会失去她们那份产业。”
5 摩西照耶和华的话吩咐以色列人说：“约瑟支派的人说的对。 6 关于西罗非哈的女儿们，耶和华说她们可以自由嫁人，但必须嫁给本支派的人。 7 以色列人的产业不可从一个支派转到另一个支派，各支派必须守住本支派的祖业。 8 继承了产业的女子必须嫁给本支派的人，以便以色列人都能守住自己的祖业。 9 以色列人的产业不可从一个支派转到另一个支派，各支派必须守住本支派的产业。”
10 于是，西罗非哈的女儿们遵行了耶和华对摩西的吩咐。 11 玛拉、得撒、曷拉、密迦和挪阿都嫁给了她们叔伯的儿子， 12 即约瑟之子玛拿西支派的人。这样，她们的产业仍留在本支派中。
13 以上是在耶利哥对面、约旦河边的摩押平原，耶和华借摩西颁布给以色列人的命令和律例。
Numbers 36
The Message
The Daughters of Zelophehad
36 The heads of the ancestral clan of Gilead son of Makir, the son of Manasseh—they were from the clans of the descendants of Joseph—approached Moses and the leaders who were heads of the families in the People of Israel.
2-4 They said, “When God commanded my master to hand over the inheritance-lands by lot to the People of Israel, my master was also commanded by God to hand over the inheritance-land of Zelophehad our brother to his daughters. But what happens if they marry into another tribe in the People of Israel? Their inheritance-land will be taken out of our ancestral tribe and get added into the tribe into which they married. And then when the year of Jubilee comes for the People of Israel their inheritance will be lumped in with the inheritance of the tribe into which they married—their land will be removed from our ancestors’ inheritance!”
5-9 Moses, at God’s command, issued this order to the People of Israel: “What the tribe of the sons of Joseph says is right. This is God’s command to Zelophehad’s daughters: They are free to marry anyone they choose as long as they marry within their ancestral clan. The inheritance-land of the People of Israel must not get passed around from tribe to tribe. No, keep the tribal inheritance-land in the family. Every daughter who inherits land, regardless of the tribe she is in, must marry a man from within her father’s tribal clan. Every Israelite is responsible for making sure the inheritance stays within the ancestral tribe. No inheritance-land may be passed from tribe to tribe; each tribe of the People of Israel must hold tight to its own land.”
10-12 Zelophehad’s daughters did just as God commanded Moses. Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Noah, Zelophehad’s daughters, all married their cousins on their father’s side. They married within the families of Manasseh son of Joseph and their inheritance-lands stayed in their father’s family.
13 These are the commands and regulations that God commanded through the authority of Moses to the People of Israel on the Plains of Moab at Jordan-Jericho.
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