Uuthiga waakiintu
1 Aakuluntu yomagumbo moludhi lwaGilead yaMakir, omutekulu gwaManasse gaJosef, oya yi kuMoses nokaawiliki yalwe. 2 Oya ti: “Omuwa okwe ku lombwele, u tendele Aaisraeli evi mokuumba iihogololitho. Okwe ku lombwele wo, u gandje eliko lyomukwetu Zelofhad koyana aakadhona. 3 Ihe ngele taa hokanwa kaayeni, nena eliko otali yi komazimo omayeni, noshitendelwa shetu tashi ka shonopala. 4 Momumvo gweligolo iinima sho tayi ka shuna kooyene yonale mboka ye yi landithile po, eliko lyaana aakadhona yaZelofhad otali ka kala kezimo hoka ya hokanwa, notatu li kanitha.”
5 Moses okwa yamukula Aaisraeli nohapu yOmuwa a ti: “Shoka tashi pulwa kezimo lyaManasse, oshi li mondjila. 6 Omuwa ota ti kutya aana aakadhona yaZelofhad oya mangulukila okuhokanwa kungoka ya hala, ihe ogwomezimo lyawo. 7 Eliko lyOmuisraeli kehe nali kale mezimo lyahe lyaa ye kezimo ekwawo. 8 Omukiintu kehe ngoka ta thigulula uuthiga mezimo lyontumba lyAaisraeli, oku na okuhokanwa komulumentu gwezimo ndyoka. Pahedhi ndjika Omuisraeli kehe oha thigulula oohekulu, 9 nuuthiga itau zi we mezimo ndika nokuya kundiyaka. Ezimo kehe ohali dhiginine uuthiga walyo.”
10 Aana aakadhona yaZelofhad oya ningi, ngaashi Omuwa a lombwele Moses. 11 Mahla, Tirza, Hogla, Milka naNoa, aana aakadhona yaZelofhad oya hokanwa po koohegona. 12 Oya hokanwa komaludhi gezimo lyaManasse gaJosef, nuuthiga wawo owa kala mezimo lyoohe.
13 Mbika oyo iipango nomautho ngoka Omuwa e ga pethitha Aaisraeli kuMoses molushandja lwaMoab puJordan ontega naJeriko.
The Laws about Married Women and Land
1 One day the family leaders from the Gilead clan of the Manasseh tribe went to Moses and the other family leaders of Israel 2 and said, “Sir, the Lord has said that he will show what land each tribe will receive as their own. And the Lord has commanded you to give the daughters of our relative Zelophehad the land that he would have received. 3 But if they marry men from other tribes of Israel, the land they receive will become part of that tribe's inheritance and will no longer belong to us. 4 Even when land is returned to its original owner in the Year of Celebration, we will not get back Zelophehad's land—it will belong to the tribe into which his daughters married.”
5 So Moses told the people that the Lord had said:
These men from the Manasseh tribe are right. 6 I will allow Zelophehad's daughters to marry anyone, as long as those men belong to one of the clans of the Manasseh tribe.
7 Tribal land must not be given to another tribe—it will remain the property of the tribe that received it. 8-9 In the future, any daughter who inherits land must marry someone from her own tribe. Israel's tribal land is never to be passed from one tribe to another.
10-11 Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Noah the daughters of Zelophehad obeyed the Lord and married their uncles' sons 12 and remained part of the Manasseh tribe. So their land stayed in their father's clan.
13 These are the laws that the Lord gave to Moses and the Israelites while they were camped in the lowlands of Moab across the Jordan River from Jericho.
