4 Mosebok 36
Forskrifter om arv
1 Overhodene for familiene som nedstammet fra Gilead, sønn av Manasses sønn Makir, og som tilhørte Josefs barns ætter, gikk fram for Moses og for de høvdingene som var overhoder for Israels barns familier, s2 og de sa: Herren har befalt min herre å gi Israels barn landet til arv ved loddkasting, og min herre har fått befaling av Herren om å gi vår bror Selofhads arv til hans døtre. s3 Men blir nå de gift med menn fra Israels barns andre stammer, så går deres arv fra våre fedres arv og legges til den stammens arv som de kommer til å tilhøre. Slik blir vår arvedel mindre. 4 Og når jubelåret kommer for Israels barn, så blir deres arv lagt til den stammens arv som de kommer til å tilhøre, og deres arv går fra vår fedrestammes arv. s5 Da bød Moses Israels barn etter Herrens ord og sa: Josefs barns stamme har rett i det de sier. 6 Slik byr Herren om Selofhads døtre: De kan gifte seg med hvem de vil, bare de gifter seg innenfor sin fedrestammes ætt, 7 for at ikke noen arv hos Israels barn skal gå over fra en stamme til en annen. Israels barn skal holde fast hver ved sin fedrestammes arv. 8 Enhver datter i Israels barns stammer som får arv, skal gifte seg med en mann av sin fedrestammes ætt, for at Israels barn kan arve hver sine fedres arv, 9 og for at ingen arv skal gå over fra en stamme til en annen, men Israels barns stammer holde fast hver ved sin arv. 10 Selofhads døtre gjorde slik som Herren hadde befalt Moses. 11 Mahla, Tirsa, Hogla, Milka og Noa, Selofhads døtre, ble gift med sine farbrødres sønner, 12 de ble gift med menn av Manasses, Josefs sønns ætter, så deres arv ble hos deres fedreætts stamme. 13 Dette er de bud og lover som Herren ga Israels barn ved Moses på Moabs ødemarker ved Jordan, rett imot Jeriko.
Numbers 36
Women and Land Inheritance
1 Then the heads of the family groupst of the Gileadites, the descendant of Machir, the descendant of Manasseh, who were from the Josephite families, approached and spoke before Mosest and the leaders who were the heads of the Israelite families.t2 They said, “The Lord commanded my lord to givet the land as an inheritance by lot to the Israelites; and my lord was commanded by the Lord to give the inheritance of our brother Zelophehad to his daughters.3 Now if they should be married to one of the ment from another Israelite tribe, their inheritance would be taken from the inheritance of our fathers and added to the inheritance of the tribe into which they marry.t As a result, it will be taken from the lot of our inheritance.
4 And when the Jubilee of the Israelites is to take place,t 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 our ancestral tribe.”t
Moses’ Decision
5 Then Moses gave a rulingt to the Israelites by the wordt of the Lord: “What the tribe of the Josephites is saying is right.6 This is whatt the Lord has commanded for Zelophehad’s daughters: ‘Let them marryt whomever they think best,t only they must marry within the family of their father’s tribe.7 In this way the inheritance of the Israelites will not be transferredt from tribe to tribe. But every one of the Israelites must retain the ancestral heritage.8 And every daughter who possesses an inheritance from any of the tribes of the Israelites must become the wife of a man from any family in her father’s tribe, so that every Israelitet may retain the inheritance of his fathers.
9 No inheritance may pass from tribe to tribe. But every one of the tribes of the Israelites must retain its inheritance.”
10 As the Lord had commanded Moses, so the daughters of Zelophehad did.11 For the daughters of Zelophehad – Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Noah – were married to the sons of their uncles.t
12 They were married into the families of the Manassehites, the descendants of Joseph, and their inheritance remained in the tribe of their father’s family.
13 These are the commandments and the decisions that the Lord commanded the Israelites through the authorityt of Moses, on the plains of Moab by the Jordan Rivert opposite Jericho.s