1Los jefes de las familias patriarcales de los clanes de Galaad fueron a hablar con Moisés y con los otros jefes de familias patriarcales israelitas. Galaad era hijo de Maquir y nieto de Manasés, por lo que sus clanes descendían de José.2Les dijeron: ―Cuando el SEÑOR te ordenó repartir por sorteo la tierra entre los israelitas, también te ordenó entregar la heredad de nuestro hermano Zelofejad a sus hijas.3Ahora bien, si ellas se casan con hombres de otras tribus, su heredad saldrá del círculo de nuestra familia patriarcal y será transferida a la tribu de aquellos con quienes ellas se casen. De este modo perderíamos parte de la heredad que nos tocó por sorteo.4Cuando los israelitas celebren el año del jubileo, esa heredad será incorporada a la tribu de sus esposos, y se perderá como propiedad de nuestra familia patriarcal.5Entonces, por mandato del SEÑOR, Moisés entregó esta ley a los israelitas: ―La tribu de los descendientes de José tiene razón.6Respecto a las hijas de Zelofejad, el SEÑOR ordena lo siguiente: Ellas podrán casarse con quien quieran, con tal de que se casen dentro de la tribu de José.7Ninguna heredad en Israel podrá pasar de una tribu a otra, porque cada israelita tiene el derecho de conservar la tierra que su tribu heredó de sus antepasados.8Toda hija que herede tierras, en cualquiera de las tribus, deberá casarse con alguien que pertenezca a la familia patriarcal de sus antepasados. Así cada israelita podrá conservar la heredad de sus padres.9Ninguna heredad podrá pasar de una tribu a otra, porque cada tribu israelita debe conservar la tierra que heredó.10Las hijas de Zelofejad hicieron lo que el SEÑOR le ordenó a Moisés.11Se llamaban Majlá, Tirsá, Joglá, Milca y Noa. Se casaron con sus primos,12dentro de los clanes de los descendientes de Manasés hijo de José, de modo que su heredad quedó dentro del clan y de la familia patriarcal de su padre.13Estos son los mandamientos y ordenanzas que, por medio de Moisés, dio el SEÑOR a los israelitas en las llanuras de Moab, cerca del Jordán, a la altura de Jericó.
1The heads of the fathers’ houses of the clan of the people of Gilead the son of Machir, son of Manasseh, from the clans of the people of Joseph, came near and spoke before Moses and before the chiefs, the heads of the fathers’ houses of the people of Israel. (Nm 26:29)2They said, “The Lord commanded my lord to give the land for inheritance by lot to the people of Israel, and my lord was commanded by the Lord to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother to his daughters. (Nm 26:55; Nm 27:1; Nm 27:7; Nm 33:54; Jos 17:3)3But if they are married to any of the sons of the other tribes of the people of Israel, then their inheritance will be taken from the inheritance of our fathers and added to the inheritance of the tribe into which they marry. So it will be taken away from the lot of our inheritance.4And when the jubilee of the people of Israel comes, then their inheritance will be added to the inheritance of the tribe into which they marry, and their inheritance will be taken from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers.” (Lv 25:10)5And Moses commanded the people of Israel according to the word of the Lord, saying, “The tribe of the people of Joseph is right. (Nm 27:7)6This is what the Lord commands concerning the daughters of Zelophehad: ‘Let them marry whom they think best, only they shall marry within the clan of the tribe of their father. (Nm 36:12)7The inheritance of the people of Israel shall not be transferred from one tribe to another, for every one of the people of Israel shall hold on to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers. (1 R 21:3)8And every daughter who possesses an inheritance in any tribe of the people of Israel shall be wife to one of the clan of the tribe of her father, so that every one of the people of Israel may possess the inheritance of his fathers. (1 Cr 23:22)9So no inheritance shall be transferred from one tribe to another, for each of the tribes of the people of Israel shall hold on to its own inheritance.’”10The daughters of Zelophehad did as the Lord commanded Moses,11for Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married to sons of their father’s brothers. (Nm 27:1; Jos 17:3)12They were married into the clans of the people of Manasseh the son of Joseph, and their inheritance remained in the tribe of their father’s clan.13These are the commandments and the rules that the Lord commanded through Moses to the people of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho. (Nm 22:1)