Numbers 36

vayyiqrevu rashe ha'avot lemishpakhat bene-gilad ben-makhir ben-menasheh mimmishpekhot bene yosef vayedabberu lifne mosheh velifne hannesi'im rashe avot livne yisra'el

The family heads in the clan of the descendants of Gilead son of Machir son of Manasseh, one of the Josephite clans, came forward and appealed to Moses and the chieftains, family heads of the Israelites.

vayyomeru et-adoni tsivvah Adonai latet et-ha'arets benakhalah begoral livne yisra'el vadoni tsuvvah va-Adonai latet et-nakhalat tselofkhad akhinu livnotayw

They said, “GOD commanded my lord to assign the land to the Israelites as shares by lot, and my lord was further commanded by GOD to assign the share of our kinsman Zelophehad to his daughters.

vehayu le'ekhad mibbene shivte vene-yisra'el lenashim venigre'ah nakhalatan minnakhalat avotenu venosaf al nakhalat hammatteh asher tihyenah lahem umiggoral nakhalatenu yiggarea

Now, if they become the wives of persons from another Israelite tribe, their share will be cut off from our ancestral portion and be added to the portion of the tribe into which they marry; thus our allotted portion will be diminished.

ve'im-yihyeh hayyovel livne yisra'el venosefah nakhalatan al nakhalat hammatteh asher tihyenah lahem uminnakhalat matteh avotenu yiggara nakhalatan

And even when the Israelites observe the jubilee, their share will be added to that of the tribe into which they marry, and their share will be cut off from the ancestral portion of our tribe.”

vayetsav mosheh et-bene yisra'el al-pi Adonai lemor ken matteh vene-yosef doverim

So Moses, at GOD’s bidding, instructed the Israelites, saying: “The plea of the Josephite tribe is just.

zeh haddavar asher-tsivvah Adonai livnot tselofkhad lemor lattov be'enehem tihyenah lenashim akh lemishpakhat matteh avihem tihyenah lenashim

This is what GOD has commanded concerning the daughters of Zelophehad: They may become the wives of anyone they wish, provided they marry into a clan of their father’s tribe.

velo-tissov nakhalah livne yisra'el mimmatteh el-matteh ki ish benakhalat matteh avotayw yidbequ bene yisra'el

No inheritance of the Israelites may pass over from one tribe to another, but the Israelite [heirs]—each of them—must remain bound to the ancestral portion of their tribe.

vekhol-bat yoreshet nakhalah mimmattot bene yisra'el le'ekhad mimmishpakhat matteh aviha tihyeh le'isha lema'an yireshu bene yisra'el ish nakhalat avotayw

Every daughter among the Israelite tribes who inherits a share must become the wife of someone from a clan of her father’s tribe, in order that every Israelite [heir] may keep an ancestral share.

velo-tissov nakhalah mimmatteh lematteh akher ki-ish benakhalato yidbequ mattot bene yisra'el

Thus no inheritance shall pass over from one tribe to another, but the Israelite tribes shall remain bound each to its portion.”

ka'asher tsivvah Adonai et-mosheh ken asu benot tselofkhad

The daughters of Zelophehad did as GOD had commanded Moses:

vattihyenah makhlah tirtsah vekhoglah umilkah veno'ah benot tselofkhad livne dodehen lenashim

Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Noah, Zelophehad’s daughters, became the wives of their uncles’ sons,

mimmishpekhot bene-menasheh ven-yosef hayu lenashim vattehi nakhalatan al-matteh mishpakhat avihen

marrying into clans of descendants of Manasseh son of Joseph; and so their share remained in the tribe of their father’s clan.

elleh hammitsvot vehammishpatim asher tsivvah Adonai beyad-mosheh el-bene yisra'el be'arvot mo'av al yarden yerekho

These are the commandments and regulations that GOD enjoined upon the Israelites, through Moses, on the steppes of Moab, at the Jordan near Jericho.