¹ Também coube sorte à tribo de Manassés, porquanto era o primogênito de José. Quanto a Maquir, o primogênito de Manassés, pai de Gileade, porquanto era homem de guerra, obtivera Gileade e Basã.

² Também os outros filhos de Manassés tiveram a sua parte, segundo as suas famílias, a saber: os filhos de Abiezer, os filhos de Heleque, os filhos de Asriel, os filhos de Siquém, os filhos de Hefer, e os filhos de semida. Esses são os filhos de Manassés, filho de José, segundo as suas famílias.

³ Zelofeade, porém, filho de Hefer, filho de Gileade, filho de Maquir, filho de Manassés, não teve filhos, mas só filhas; e estes são os nomes de suas filhas: Macla, Noa, Hogla, Milca e Tirza.

⁴ Estas, pois, se apresentaram diante de Eleazar, o sacerdote, e diante de Josué, filho de Num, e diante dos príncipes, dizendo: O Senhor ordenou a Moisés que se nos desse herança no meio de nossos irmãos. Pelo que se lhes deu herança no meio dos irmãos de seu pai, conforme a ordem do Senhor.

⁵ E couberam a Manassés dez quinhões, afora a terra de Gileade e Basã, que está além do Jordão;

⁶ porque as filhas de Manassés possuíram herança entre os filhos dele; e a terra de Gileade coube aos outros filhos de Manassés.

⁷ Ora, o termo de Manassés vai desde Aser até Micmetá, que está defronte de Siquém; e estende-se pela direita até os moradores de En-Tapua.

⁸ A terra de Tapua ficou pertencendo a Manassés; porém Tapua, junto ao termo de Manassés, pertencia aos filhos de Efraim .

⁹ Então desce este termo ao ribeiro de Caná; a Efraim couberam as cidades ao sul do ribeiro no meio das cidades de Manassés; o termo de Manassés está ao norte do ribeiro, e vai até o mar.

¹⁰ Ao sul a terra é de Efraim, e ao norte de Manassés, sendo o mar o seu termo. Estendem-se ao norte até Aser, e ao oriente até Issacar

¹¹ Porque em Issacar e em Aser couberam a Manassés Bete-Seã e suas vilas, Ibleão e suas vilas, os habitantes de Dor e suas vilas, os habitantes de En-Dor e suas vilas, os habitantes de Taanaque e suas vilas, e os habitantes de Megido e suas vilas, com os seus três outeiros.

¹² Contudo os filhos de Manassés não puderam expulsar os habitantes daquelas cidades, porquanto os cananeus persistiram em habitar naquela terra.

¹³ Mas quando os filhos de Israel se tornaram fortes, sujeitaram os cananeus a trabalhos forçados, porém não os expulsaram de todo.

¹⁴ Então os filhos de José falaram a Josué, dizendo: Por que me deste por herança apenas uma sorte e um quinhão, sendo eu um povo numeroso, porquanto o Senhor até aqui me tem abençoado?

¹⁵ Respondeu-lhes Josué: Se és povo numeroso, sobe ao bosque, e corta para ti lugar ali na terra dos perizeus e dos refains, desde que a região montanhosa de Efraim te é estreita demais.

¹⁶ Tornaram os filhos de José: A região montanhosa não nos bastaria; além disso todos os cananeus que habitam na terra do vale têm carros de ferro, tanto os de Bete-Seã e das suas vilas, como os que estão no vale de Jizreel.

¹⁷ Então Josué falou a casa de José, isto é, a Efraim e a Manassés, dizendo: Povo numeroso és tu, e tens grande força; não terás uma sorte apenas;

¹⁸ porém a região montanhosa será tua; ainda que é bosque, cortá-lo-ás, e as suas extremidades serão tuas; porque expulsarás os cananeus, não obstante terem eles carros de ferro e serem fortes:

¹ Therefore let us also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

² looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

³ For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don't grow weary, fainting in your souls.

⁴ You have not yet resisted to blood, striving against sin;

⁵ and you have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, "My son, don't take lightly the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him;

⁶ For whom the Lord loves, he chastens, and scourges every son whom he receives."

⁷ It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with children, for what son is there whom his father doesn't discipline?

⁸ But if you are without discipline, of which all have been made partakers, then are you illegitimate, and not children.

⁹ Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?

¹⁰ For they indeed, for a few days, punished us as seemed good to them; but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness.

¹¹ All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been exercised thereby.

¹² Therefore, lift up the hands that hang down and the feeble knees,

¹³ and make straight paths for your feet, so that which is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed.

¹⁴ Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,

¹⁵ looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and many be defiled by it;

¹⁶ lest there be any sexually immoral person, or profane person, like Esau, who sold his birthright for one meal.

¹⁷ For you know that even when he afterward desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for a change of mind though he sought it diligently with tears.

¹⁸ For you have not come to a mountain that might be touched, and that burned with fire, and to blackness, darkness, storm,

¹⁹ the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which those who heard it begged that not one more word should be spoken to them,

²⁰ for they could not stand that which was commanded, "If even an animal touches the mountain, it shall be stoned;"

²¹ and so fearful was the appearance, that Moses said, "I am terrified and trembling."

²² But you have come to Mount Zion, and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable multitudes of angels,

²³ to the general assembly and assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect,

²⁴ to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better than that of Abel.

²⁵ See that you don't refuse him who speaks. For if they didn't escape when they refused him who warned on the Earth, how much more will we not escape who turn away from him who warns from heaven,

²⁶ whose voice shook the earth then, but now he has promised, saying, "Yet once more I will shake not only the earth, but also the heavens."

²⁷ This phrase, "Yet once more," signifies the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that have been made, that those things which are not shaken may remain.

²⁸ Therefore, receiving a Kingdom that can't be shaken, let us have grace, through which we serve God acceptably, with reverence and awe,

²⁹ for our God is a consuming fire.