Bagian: Tanah warisan bagi anak-anak perempuan Zelafehad
1Pemimpin-pemimpin keluarga marga Gilead (anak Makir) dari suku Manasye (anak Yurup) datang menghadap Musa dan para pemimpin Israel2dan berkata, “Saat TUHAN menyuruh Tuan melakukan undian untuk membagikan negeri warisan kepada suku-suku Israel, Dia menyuruh Tuan untuk memberikan tanah warisan saudara kami, Zelafehad kepada anak-anak perempuannya.3Tetapi kalau perempuan-perempuan itu menikah dengan laki-laki dari suku lain, nanti pada waktu Tahun Pemulihan, tanah warisan mereka itu akan ditambahkan kepada suku pihak suami. Dengan demikian, tanah warisan suku kami akan dibawa ke suku lain.”5Lalu Musa menyampaikan pesan TUHAN kepada bangsa Israel, “Benar perkataan orang-orang suku Manasye itu.6Sebab itu, TUHAN mengatakan bahwa anak-anak perempuan Zelafehad boleh menikah dengan siapa saja yang mereka mau, selama orang itu satu suku dengan mereka.7Tanah warisan bangsa Israel tidak boleh berpindah dari satu suku ke suku yang lain. Setiap orang harus mewarisi tanah dari sukunya masing-masing. Setiap perempuan yang mendapat tanah warisan dalam suku Israel hanya boleh menikah dengan orang yang satu suku dengannya. Dengan cara itu setiap orang Israel akan tetap memiliki tanah dari nenek moyangnya masing-masing.”10Kelima anak perempuan Zelafehad itu pun mengikuti apa yang diperintahkan TUHAN melalui Musa.11Mahla, Tirza, Hogla, Milka dan Noa menikah dengan saudara sepupunya dari keluarga ayahnya.12Dengan demikian mereka tetap termasuk dalam marga-marga keluarga Manasye, sehingga tanah warisan mereka tetap milik suku ayah mereka.13Itulah seluruh perintah dan hukum yang diberikan TUHAN kepada Musa untuk disampaikan kepada seluruh bangsa Israel ketika mereka berada di dataran Moab, di tepi sungai Yordan, berseberangan dengan kota Yeriko.
World English Bible (dengan Deuterokanonika)
1The heads of the fathers’ households of the family of the children 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 princes, the heads of the fathers’ households of the children of Israel.2They said, “Yahweh commanded my lord to give the land for inheritance by lot to the children of Israel. My lord was commanded by Yahweh to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother to his daughters.3If they are married to any of the sons of the other tribes of the children of Israel, then their inheritance will be taken away from the inheritance of our fathers, and will be added to the inheritance of the tribe to which they shall belong. So it will be taken away from the lot of our inheritance.4When the jubilee of the children of Israel comes, then their inheritance will be added to the inheritance of the tribe to which they shall belong. So their inheritance will be taken away from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers.”5Moses commanded the children of Israel according to Yahweh’s word, saying, “The tribe of the sons of Joseph speak what is right.6This is the thing which Yahweh commands concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, ‘Let them be married to whom they think best, only they shall marry into the family of the tribe of their father.7So shall no inheritance of the children of Israel move from tribe to tribe; for the children of Israel shall all keep the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.8Every daughter who possesses an inheritance in any tribe of the children of Israel shall be wife to one of the family of the tribe of her father, that the children of Israel may each possess the inheritance of his fathers.9So shall no inheritance move from one tribe to another tribe; for the tribes of the children of Israel shall each keep his own inheritance.’”10The daughters of Zelophehad did as Yahweh commanded Moses:11for Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married to their father’s brothers’ sons.12They were married into the families of the sons of Manasseh the son of Joseph. Their inheritance remained in the tribe of the family of their father.13These are the commandments and the ordinances which Yahweh commanded by Moses to the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.