1Estas foram as terras distribuídas à tribo de Manassés, filho mais velho de José. Foram entregues a Maquir, filho mais velho de Manassés. Maquir, pai de Gileade, guerreiro valente, recebeu Gileade e Basã.2Também foram dadas terras para os clãs dos outros filhos de Manassés: Abiezer, Heleque, Asriel, Siquém, Héfer e Semida. Esses são os filhos homens de Manassés, filho de José, de acordo com os seus clãs.3Zelofeade, porém, filho de Héfer, neto de Gileade, bisneto de Maquir, trineto de Manassés, não teve nenhum filho, somente filhas. Seus nomes eram Maalá, Noa, Hogla, Milca e Tirza.4Elas foram ao sacerdote Eleazar, a Josué, filho de Num, e aos líderes, e disseram: “O SENHOR ordenou a Moisés que nos desse uma herança entre os nossos parentes”. Josué deu-lhes então uma herança entre os irmãos de seu pai, de acordo com a ordem do SENHOR.5A tribo de Manassés recebeu dez quinhões de terra, além de Gileade e Basã, que ficam a leste do Jordão,6pois tanto as filhas de Manassés como os filhos dele receberam herança. A terra de Gileade ficou para os outros descendentes de Manassés.7O território de Manassés estendia-se desde Aser até Micmetá, a leste de Siquém. A fronteira ia dali para o sul, chegando até o povo que vivia em En-Tapua.8(As terras de Tapua eram de Manassés, mas a cidade de Tapua, na fronteira de Manassés, pertencia aos efraimitas.)9Depois a fronteira descia até o ribeiro de Caná. Ao sul do ribeiro havia cidades pertencentes a Efraim que ficavam em meio às cidades de Manassés, mas a fronteira de Manassés ficava ao norte do ribeiro e terminava no mar.10Do lado sul a terra pertencia a Efraim; do lado norte, a Manassés. O território de Manassés chegava até o mar e alcançava Aser, ao norte, e Issacar, a leste.11Em Issacar e Aser, Manassés tinha também Bete-Seã, Ibleã e as populações de Dor, En-Dor, Taanaque e Megido, com os seus respectivos povoados. (A terceira da lista, isto é, Dor, é Nafote*.)12Mas os manassitas não conseguiram expulsar os habitantes dessas cidades, pois os cananeus estavam decididos a viver naquela região.13Entretanto, quando os israelitas se fortaleceram, submeteram os cananeus a trabalhos forçados, mas não os expulsaram totalmente.14Os descendentes de José disseram então a Josué: “Por que nos deste apenas um quinhão, uma só porção de herança? Somos um povo numeroso, e o SENHOR nos tem abençoado ricamente”.15Respondeu Josué: “Se vocês são tão numerosos e se os montes de Efraim têm pouco espaço para vocês, subam, entrem na floresta e limpem o terreno para vocês na terra dos ferezeus e dos refains”.16Os descendentes de José responderam: “Os montes não são suficientes para nós; além disso todos os cananeus que vivem na planície possuem carros de ferro, tanto os que vivem em Bete-Seã e seus povoados como os que vivem no vale de Jezreel”.17Josué, porém, disse à tribo de José, a Efraim e a Manassés: “Vocês são numerosos e poderosos. Vocês não terão apenas um quinhão.18Os montes cobertos de floresta serão de vocês. Limpem o terreno, e será de vocês, até os seus limites mais distantes. Embora os cananeus possuam carros de ferro e sejam fortes, vocês poderão expulsá-los”.
English Standard Version
1Then allotment was made to the people of Manasseh, for he was the firstborn of Joseph. To Machir the firstborn of Manasseh, the father of Gilead, were allotted Gilead and Bashan, because he was a man of war.2And allotments were made to the rest of the people of Manasseh by their clans, Abiezer, Helek, Asriel, Shechem, Hepher, and Shemida. These were the male descendants of Manasseh the son of Joseph, by their clans.3Now Zelophehad the son of Hepher, son of Gilead, son of Machir, son of Manasseh, had no sons, but only daughters, and these are the names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.4They approached Eleazar the priest and Joshua the son of Nun and the leaders and said, “The Lord commanded Moses to give us an inheritance along with our brothers.” So according to the mouth of the Lord he gave them an inheritance among the brothers of their father.5Thus there fell to Manasseh ten portions, besides the land of Gilead and Bashan, which is on the other side of the Jordan,6because the daughters of Manasseh received an inheritance along with his sons. The land of Gilead was allotted to the rest of the people of Manasseh.7The territory of Manasseh reached from Asher to Michmethath, which is east of Shechem. Then the boundary goes along southward to the inhabitants of En-tappuah.8The land of Tappuah belonged to Manasseh, but the town of Tappuah on the boundary of Manasseh belonged to the people of Ephraim.9Then the boundary went down to the brook Kanah. These cities, to the south of the brook, among the cities of Manasseh, belong to Ephraim. Then the boundary of Manasseh goes on the north side of the brook and ends at the sea,10the land to the south being Ephraim’s and that to the north being Manasseh’s, with the sea forming its boundary. On the north Asher is reached, and on the east Issachar.11Also in Issachar and in Asher Manasseh had Beth-shean and its villages, and Ibleam and its villages, and the inhabitants of Dor and its villages, and the inhabitants of En-dor and its villages, and the inhabitants of Taanach and its villages, and the inhabitants of Megiddo and its villages; the third is Naphath.*12Yet the people of Manasseh could not take possession of those cities, but the Canaanites persisted in dwelling in that land.13Now when the people of Israel grew strong, they put the Canaanites to forced labor, but did not utterly drive them out.14Then the people of Joseph spoke to Joshua, saying, “Why have you given me but one lot and one portion as an inheritance, although I am a numerous people, since all along the Lord has blessed me?”15And Joshua said to them, “If you are a numerous people, go up by yourselves to the forest, and there clear ground for yourselves in the land of the Perizzites and the Rephaim, since the hill country of Ephraim is too narrow for you.”16The people of Joseph said, “The hill country is not enough for us. Yet all the Canaanites who dwell in the plain have chariots of iron, both those in Beth-shean and its villages and those in the Valley of Jezreel.”17Then Joshua said to the house of Joseph, to Ephraim and Manasseh, “You are a numerous people and have great power. You shall not have one allotment only,18but the hill country shall be yours, for though it is a forest, you shall clear it and possess it to its farthest borders. For you shall drive out the Canaanites, though they have chariots of iron, and though they are strong.”
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