Numbers 36
1 Then the leaders of the families of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, from the stock of the sons of Joseph, approached and spoke to Moses before the leaders of Israel, and they said:
那時若瑟後裔的家族中，有默納協的子孫，瑪基爾的兒子基肋阿得子孫的家族首領，來到梅瑟和叵子民各家族的首領前說：
2 “The Lord has instructed you, our ruler, so that you would divide the land by lot to the sons of Israel, and so that you would give to the daughters of Zelophehad, our brother, the possession owed to their father.
「上主吩咐我主，以抽籤來分給以色列子民土地為產業，我主又領了木的保，將我們兄弟責羅斐哈得的產業，分給他的女兒們。
3 But if men of another tribe receive them as wives, their possession will follow them, and having been transferred to another tribe, there will be a reduction in our inheritance.
現在，如果她們嫁給了以色列子民另一支派的人，她們的產業就脫離了我們祖先的產業，而加在所嫁給的那一支派的產業上：這樣，我們抽籤分得的產業就減少了。
4 And so it may be that, when the Jubilee of remission, that is, the fiftieth year, has arrived, the distribution by lots shall be confounded, and the possession of the one shall be transferred to others.”
甚至一到以色列子民的喜年，她們的產業仍舊加在所嫁的那一支派的產業內，我們祖先支派的產業就減少了她們那一份」。
5 Moses answered the sons of Israel, and, at the instruction of the Lord, he said: “The tribe of the sons of Joseph has spoken correctly.
梅瑟依上主的指示訓令以色列子民說：「若瑟子孫支派說的有理。
6 And so, this is the law which has been promulgated by the Lord about the daughters of Zelophehad: Let them marry whomever they may wish, but only among the men of their own tribe,
上主對於責羅斐哈得的女兒們這樣這樣吩咐說：她們可任意嫁給自己所喜愛的人，但只應嫁給屬於自己祖先支派的人。
7 lest the possession of the sons of Israel become commingled, from tribe to tribe. For all men shall take wives from their own tribe and kinship;
以色列子民的產業不可由一支派轉移至另一支派，因為以色列子民每人應固守自己祖先支派的產業。
8 and all women shall take husbands from their same tribe, so that the inheritance may remain within the families,
以色列子民支派中，凡繼承產業的子女，應嫁給她祖先支派的人為妻，好使每個以色列子民能固守祖先的產業。
9 and so that the tribes may not be mingled together, but may remain such as they were separated by the Lord.”
這樣產業就不會由一支派轉移至另一支派，因為以色列子民各支派應固守自己的產業」。
10 And the daughters of Zelophehad acted according to what was ordered.
上主怎樣吩咐了梅瑟，責羅斐哈得的女兒們就怎樣做了。
11 And Mahlah, and Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Noa were wed to the sons of their paternal uncle,
責羅斐哈得的女兒：瑪赫拉、提爾匝、曷米革拉、米耳加和諾阿，嫁給了自己叔伯的兒子們，
12 from the family of Manasseh, who was a son of Joseph. And the possession which had been distributed to them remained in the tribe and family of their father.
即嫁給了若瑟的兒子默納協子孫家族的人：如此她們的產業仍留在她們祖先家族的支派內。
13 These are the commandments and judgments which the Lord ordered by the hand of Moses to the sons of Israel, in the plains of Moab, above the Jordan, opposite Jericho.
這是上主在耶利哥對面，約旦河邊，摩阿布曠野內，藉梅瑟向以色列子民所頒佈的誡命和規則。
