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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.) 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. 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. 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.”

Then Moses gave the Israelites this command from the Lord: “These men from the tribe of Joseph are right. This is the Lord’s command to Zelophehad’s daughters: You may marry anyone you wish from your own tribe. 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. 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. 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.

36 Och huvudmännen för familjerna i Gileads barns släkt -- Gileads, som var son till Makir, Manasses son, av Josefs barns släkter -- trädde fram och talade inför Mose och de hövdingar som voro huvudmän för Israels barns familjer.

De sade: »HERREN har bjudit min herre att genom lottkastning göra landet såsom arvedel åt Israels barn och HERREN har vidare bjudit min herre att giva Selofhads, vår broders, arvedel åt hans döttrar.

Men om nu dessa bliva gifta med någon ur Israels barns andra stammar, så tages deras arvedel bort ifrån våra fäders arvedel, under det att den stam de komma att tillhöra får sin arvedel ökad; på detta sätt bliver en del av vår arvslott oss fråntagen.

När sedan jubelåret inträder för Israels barn, bliver deras arvedel lagd till den stams arvedel, som de komma att tillhöra, men från vår fädernestams arvedel tages deras arvedel bort.»

Då bjöd Mose Israels barn, efter HERRENS befallning, och sade: »Josefs barns stam har talat rätt.

Detta är vad HERREN bjuder angående Selofhads döttrar; han säger: De må gifta sig med vem de finna för gott, allenast de gifta sig inom en släkt som hör till deras egen fädernestam.

Ty en arvedel som tillhör någon, av Israels barn må icke gå över från en stam till en annan, utan Israels barn skola behålla kvar var och en sin fädernestams arvedel.

Och när en kvinna som inom någon av Israels barns stammar har kommit i besittning av en arvedel gifter sig, skall det vara med en man av någon släkt som hör till hennes egen fädernestam, så att Israels barn förbliva i besittning var och en av sina fäders arvedel.

Ty ingen arvedel må gå över från en stam till en annan, utan Israels barns stammar skola behålla kvar var och en sin arvedel.»

10 Selofhads döttrar gjorde såsom HERREN hade bjudit Mose.

11 Mahela, Tirsa, Hogla, Milka och Noa, Selofhads döttrar, gifte sig med sina farbröders söner.

12 De blevo alltså gifta inom Manasses, Josefs sons, barns släkter, och deras arvedel stannade så kvar inom deras fädernesläkts stam.

13 Dessa äro de bud och rätter som HERREN genom Mose gav Israels barn, på Moabs hedar, vid Jordan mitt emot Jeriko.

Inheritance of Zelophehad’s Daughters(A)

36 The family heads of the clan of Gilead(B) son of Makir,(C) the son of Manasseh, who were from the clans of the descendants of Joseph,(D) came and spoke before Moses and the leaders,(E) the heads of the Israelite families. They said, “When the Lord commanded my lord to give the land as an inheritance to the Israelites by lot,(F) he ordered you to give the inheritance of our brother Zelophehad(G) to his daughters. Now suppose they marry men from other Israelite tribes; then their inheritance will be taken from our ancestral inheritance and added to that of the tribe they marry into. And so part of the inheritance allotted to us will be taken away. When the Year of Jubilee(H) for the Israelites comes, their inheritance will be added to that of the tribe into which they marry, and their property will be taken from the tribal inheritance of our ancestors.”

Then at the Lord’s command Moses gave this order to the Israelites: “What the tribe of the descendants of Joseph is saying is right. This is what the Lord commands for Zelophehad’s daughters: They may marry anyone they please as long as they marry within their father’s tribal clan. No inheritance(I) in Israel is to pass from one tribe to another, for every Israelite shall keep the tribal inheritance of their ancestors. Every daughter who inherits land in any Israelite tribe must marry someone in her father’s tribal clan,(J) so that every Israelite will possess the inheritance of their ancestors. No inheritance may pass from one tribe to another, for each Israelite tribe is to keep the land it inherits.”

10 So Zelophehad’s daughters did as the Lord commanded Moses. 11 Zelophehad’s daughters—Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milkah and Noah(K)—married their cousins on their father’s side. 12 They married within the clans of the descendants of Manasseh son of Joseph, and their inheritance remained in their father’s tribe and clan.(L)

13 These are the commands and regulations the Lord gave through Moses(M) to the Israelites on the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho.(N)

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36 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:

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 fathers 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.