4.Mose 36 | Nova Versão Internacional

A Lei da Herança das Mulheres: o Caso das Filhas de Zelofeade

1 Os chefes de família do clã de Gileade, filho de Maquir, neto de Manassés, que pertenciam aos clãs dos descendentes de José, foram falar com Moisés e com os líderes, os chefes das famílias israelitas.

2 E disseram: “Quando o SENHOR ordenou ao meu senhor que, por sorteio, desse a terra como herança aos israelitas, ordenou que vocês dessem a herança de nosso irmão Zelofeade às suas filhas.

3 Agora, suponham que elas se casem com homens de outras tribos israelitas; nesse caso a herança delas será tirada da herança dos nossos antepassados e acrescentada à herança da tribo com a qual se unirem pelo casamento.

4 Quando chegar o ano do Jubileu para os israelitas, a herança delas será acrescentada à da tribo com a qual se unirem pelo casamento, e a propriedade delas será tirada da herança da tribo de nossos antepassados”.

5 Então, instruído pelo SENHOR, Moisés deu esta ordem aos israelitas: “A tribo dos descendentes de José tem razão.

6 É isto que o SENHOR ordena quanto às filhas de Zelofeade: Elas poderão casar-se com quem lhes agradar, contanto que se casem dentro do clã da tribo de seu pai.

7 Nenhuma herança em Israel poderá passar de uma tribo para outra, pois todos os israelitas manterão as terras das tribos que herdaram de seus antepassados.

8 Toda filha que herdar terras em qualquer tribo israelita se casará com alguém do clã da tribo de seu pai, para que cada israelita possua a herança dos seus antepassados.

9 Nenhuma herança poderá passar de uma tribo para outra, pois cada tribo israelita deverá manter as terras que herdou”.

10 As filhas de Zelofeade fizeram conforme o SENHOR havia ordenado a Moisés.

11 As filhas de Zelofeade, Maalá, Tirza, Hogla, Milca e Noa, casaram-se com seus primos paternos,

12 dentro dos clãs dos descendentes de Manassés, filho de José, e a herança delas permaneceu no clã e na tribo de seu pai.

13 São esses os mandamentos e as ordenanças que o SENHOR deu aos israelitas por intermédio de Moisés nas campinas de Moabe, junto ao Jordão, frente a Jericó.

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English Standard Version

Marriage of Female Heirs

1 The 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.

2 They 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.

3 But 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.

4 And 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.”

5 And Moses commanded the people of Israel according to the word of the LORD, saying, “The tribe of the people of Joseph is right.

6 This 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.

7 The 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.

8 And 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.

9 So 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.’”

10 The daughters of Zelophehad did as the LORD commanded Moses,

11 for Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married to sons of their father’s brothers.

12 They 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.

13 These 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.

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