Numbers 36
1 And the chief fathers of families of the sons 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 chief fathers of the children of Israel:
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 and they said, Jehovah commanded my lord to give the land for an inheritance by lot to the children of Israel; and my lord was commanded by Jehovah to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother to his daughters.
「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 Now 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 added to the inheritance of the tribe to which they shall belong; and it shall be taken from the lot of 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 when the jubilee of the children of Israel shall come, then shall their inheritance be added to the inheritance of the tribe to which they shall belong; and their inheritance shall be taken away from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers.
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 And Moses commanded the children of Israel according to the word of Jehovah, saying, The tribe of the sons of Joseph hath said well.
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 This is the thing which Jehovah hath commanded concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, Let them marry whom they please; only they shall marry one of the tribe of their father,
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 that no inheritance of the children of Israel pass from tribe to tribe; for every one of the children of Israel shall keep to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.
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 every daughter that possesseth an inheritance among the tribes of the children of Israel, shall be married to one of the family of the tribe of her father, that the children of Israel may possess every one the inheritance of his fathers,
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 the inheritance shall not pass from one tribe to another tribe; for each of the tribes of the children of Israel shall keep to his inheritance.
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 Even as Jehovah had commanded Moses, so did the daughters of Zelophehad;
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, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married unto their uncles' sons.
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 To those that were of the families of the sons of Manasseh the son of Joseph were they married; and their inheritance remained in the tribe of the 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 the ordinances which Jehovah commanded through Moses to the children of Israel, in the plains of Moab, by the Jordan of 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。
