< Numbers 36 >

1 And the heads of the fathers of the families of the sons of Gilead, son of Machir, son of Manasseh, of the families of the sons of Joseph, come near and speak before Moses and before the princes, heads of the fathers of the sons 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 say, “YHWH commanded my lord to give the land for inheritance by lot to the sons of Israel, and my lord has been commanded by YHWH to give the inheritance of our brother Zelophehad 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 have been [given] to one from the sons of the [other] tribes of the sons of Israel for wives, and their inheritance has been withdrawn from the inheritance of our fathers, and has been added to the inheritance of the tribe which is theirs, and it is withdrawn from the lot of our inheritance,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 if it is the Jubilee of the sons of Israel, then their inheritance has been added to the inheritance of the tribe which is theirs, and their inheritance is withdrawn from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers.”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 commands the sons of Israel by the command of YHWH, saying, “The tribe of the sons of Joseph is speaking 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 this [is] the thing which YHWH has commanded concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, To those good in their eyes let them be for wives; only, let them be for wives to a family of the tribe of their fathers;
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 and the inheritance of the sons of Israel does not turn around from tribe to tribe; for each of the sons of Israel cleaves 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 possessing an inheritance from the tribes of the sons of Israel is for a wife to one from the family of the tribe of her father, so that the sons of Israel each possess 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 does not turn around from [one] tribe to another tribe; for each of the tribes of the sons of Israel cleaves 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 As YHWH has commanded Moses, so the daughters of Zelophehad have done,
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, daughters of Zelophehad, are for wives to the sons of their fathers’ brothers;
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 they have been for wives [to men] from the families of the sons of Manasseh, son of Joseph, and their inheritance is with 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 commands and the judgments which YHWH has commanded by the hand of Moses concerning the sons of Israel, in the plains of Moab by the Jordan, [near] 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。

< Numbers 36 >