Numbers 27:1-8

Zelophehad’s Daughters

1 The daughters of Zelophehad son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Makir, the son of Manasseh, belonged to the clans of Manasseh son of Joseph. The names of the daughters were Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milkah and Tirzah. They came forward
2 and stood before Moses, Eleazar the priest, the leaders and the whole assembly at the entrance to the tent of meeting and said,
3 “Our father died in the wilderness. He was not among Korah’s followers, who banded together against the LORD, but he died for his own sin and left no sons.
4 Why should our father’s name disappear from his clan because he had no son? Give us property among our father’s relatives.”
5 So Moses brought their case before the LORD,
6 and the LORD said to him,
7 “What Zelophehad’s daughters are saying is right. You must certainly give them property as an inheritance among their father’s relatives and give their father’s inheritance to them.
8 “Say to the Israelites, ‘If a man dies and leaves no son, give his inheritance to his daughter.

Cross References 14

  • 1. S Numbers 26:33
  • 2. Joshua 17:2,3
  • 3. S Numbers 26:30
  • 4. S Genesis 50:23; 1 Chronicles 2:21; Numbers 36:1
  • 5. Exodus 40:2,17
  • 6. S Numbers 9:6
  • 7. Numbers 1:16; Numbers 31:13; Numbers 32:2; Numbers 36:1
  • 8. Numbers 26:65
  • 9. Numbers 16:2
  • 10. Numbers 26:33
  • 11. S Genesis 25:22; S Exodus 18:19
  • 12. S Numbers 9:8
  • 13. Job 42:15
  • 14. ver 8; Joshua 17:4
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