Numbers 36
1 The family leaders of the clan of Gilead of the tribe of Manasseh went to Moses/me and the other family leaders of the Israeli people.
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 They said to Moses/me, “Yahweh commanded you, our leader, to apportion the land to the Israeli tribes by throwing (lots/stones that have been marked) to decide [which group would get which area]. Yahweh also commanded you to give the land that belonged to our fellow Israeli 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 But if his daughters marry men from the other Israeli tribes, that land will no longer belong to our tribe. People of other tribes will get it. So some of our land will no longer belong to us.
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 When the Year of Celebration comes, [when all the land that has been bought by someone is returned to its original owners], the land that belonged to Zelophehad will belong to the tribes of the men that his daughters marry. So some of our land, the land that we received from our fathers, will be taken from us, [and we will never own it again].”
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 Yahweh told Moses/me what to reply to them, so Moses/I said this to them: “These men from the tribe of Manasseh are right.
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 what Yahweh is saying to the daughters of Zelophehad: ‘Each of you may marry anyone you want to, but you must marry only someone from your 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 In that way, the land that belongs to Israelis will not be passed from one tribe to another tribe. Each Israeli will keep the land in the tribe that belonged to his ancestors.
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 A woman who inherits her father’s land may get married, but she must marry someone from her own tribe. In that way, every Israeli will keep the land that belonged to his ancestors.
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 The land must not be passed from one tribe to another tribe. Each Israeli tribe must keep the land that it received from its ancestors.”
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 Zelophehad’s daughters obeyed what Yahweh told Moses/me.
上主怎樣吩咐了梅瑟，責羅斐哈得的女兒們就怎樣做了。
11 The five daughters—Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah and Noah—married their cousins, their father’s relatives.
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 The men whom they married were from the tribe of Manasseh, so their land continued to belong to their father’s family and tribe.
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 Those were the commands [DOU] that Yahweh gave to Moses/me to tell to the Israelis, while they/we were on the plains of the Moab region, close to the Jordan River, across from 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。
