Numbers 36 · Parashat Masei

And the chief fathers of the family of the children of Gil῾ad, the son of Makhir, the son of Menashshe, of the families of the sons of Yosef, came near, and spoke before Moshe, and before the princes, the chief fathers of the children of Yisra᾽el:

and they said, The Lord commanded my lord to give the land for an inheritance by lot to the children of Yisra᾽el: and my lord was commanded by the Lord to give the inheritance of Żelofĥad our brother to his daughters.

And if they be married to any of the sons of the other tribes of the children of Yisra᾽el, then shall their inheritance be taken from the inheritance of our fathers, and shall be added to the inheritance of the tribe to which they are joined: so shall it be taken from the lot of our inheritance.

And when the jubilee of the children of Yisra᾽el shall be, then shall their inheritance be added to the inheritance of the tribe unto which they are joined: so shall their inheritance be taken away from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers.

And Moshe commanded the children of Yisra᾽el according to the word of the Lord, saying, The tribe of the sons of Yosef has said well.

This is the thing which the Lord commands concerning the daughters of Żelofĥad, saying, Let them marry whom they think best; only within the family of the tribe of their father shall they marry.

So the inheritance of the children of Yisra᾽el shall not remove from tribe to tribe: for every one of the children of Yisra᾽el shall cleave to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.

And every daughter, who possesses an inheritance in any tribe of the children of Yisra᾽el shall be wife to one of the family of the tribe of her father, that the children of Yisra᾽el may enjoy every man the inheritance of his fathers.

Neither shall the inheritance remove from one tribe to another tribe; but every one of the tribes of the children of Yisra᾽el shall keep himself to his own inheritance.

Even as the Lord commanded Moshe, so did the daughters of Żelofĥad:

for Maĥla, Tirża, and Ḥogla, and Milka, and No῾a, the daughters of Żelofĥad, were married to their uncles’ sons:

and they were married to the families of the sons of Menashshe the son of Yosef, and their inheritance remained in the tribe of the family of their father.

These are the commandments and the judgments, which the Lord commanded by the hand of Moshe to the children of Yisra᾽el in the plains of Mo᾽av by Yarden near Yereĥo.