Lov angående kvinders arveret
1Familieoverhovederne i Gileads slægt kom nu til Moses og folkets ledere med et problem. De sagde: 2„Herren har befalet dig at lade Israels folk fordele landet ved lodtrækning, og du har givet os besked på at overdrage vores slægtning Zelofhads jord til hans døtre. 3Men hvis de nu gifter sig med mænd fra en anden stamme, vil deres jordstykke tilfalde den stamme, og vores område vil i så fald blive formindsket, 4uden at vi kan gøre os håb om at få den mistede jord tilbage i det førstkommende jubelår.”
5Derfor bekendtgjorde Moses på Herrens befaling følgende ordning for kvinders arvelod: „Disse mænd fra Manasses stamme har ret. 6Derfor siger Herren, at Zelofhads døtre kun må gifte sig inden for deres egen stamme. 7Derved undgår vi, at deres jordstykke kommer på andre stammers hænder, hvilket ville være forkert, for der må ikke overdrages jord fra en stamme til en anden. 8-9Enhver arveberettiget kvinde skal derfor gifte sig inden for sin egen stamme, så hendes arvelod forbliver på stammens hænder.”
10-12Zelofhads døtre, som hed Mala, Tirtza, Hogla, Milka og Noa, gjorde, som Herren havde befalet Moses. De giftede sig med mænd fra deres egen stamme, Manasses stamme. På den måde forblev deres jord på stammens hænder.
13Alle disse bud og forskrifter gav Herren til Israels folk gennem Moses, mens de lå i lejr på Moabs sletter ved Jordanfloden over for Jeriko.
Inheritance of Zelophehad’s daughters
1The family heads of the clan of Gilead son of Makir, the son of Manasseh, who were from the clans of the descendants of Joseph, came and spoke before Moses and the leaders, the heads of the Israelite families. 2They said, ‘When the Lord commanded my lord to give the land as an inheritance to the Israelites by lot, he ordered you to give the inheritance of our brother Zelophehad to his daughters. 3Now suppose they marry men from other Israelite tribes; then their inheritance will be taken from our ancestral inheritance and added to that of the tribe they marry into. And so part of the inheritance allotted to us will be taken away. 4When the Year of Jubilee for the Israelites comes, their inheritance will be added to that of the tribe into which they marry, and their property will be taken from the tribal inheritance of our ancestors.’
5Then at the Lord’s command Moses gave this order to the Israelites: ‘What the tribe of the descendants of Joseph is saying is right. 6This is what the Lord commands for Zelophehad’s daughters: they may marry anyone they please as long as they marry within their father’s tribal clan. 7No inheritance in Israel is to pass from one tribe to another, for every Israelite shall keep the tribal inheritance of their ancestors. 8Every daughter who inherits land in any Israelite tribe must marry someone in her father’s tribal clan, so that every Israelite will possess the inheritance of their ancestors. 9No inheritance may pass from one tribe to another, for each Israelite tribe is to keep the land it inherits.’
10So Zelophehad’s daughters did as the Lord commanded Moses. 11Zelophehad’s daughters – Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milkah and Noah – married their cousins on their father’s side. 12They married within the clans of the descendants of Manasseh son of Joseph, and their inheritance remained in their father’s tribe and clan.
13These are the commands and regulations the Lord gave through Moses to the Israelites on the plains of Moab by the Jordan opposite Jericho.
