Zelophehad’s Daughters Marry
(Numbers 27:1–11)
Now the family heads of the clan of Gilead son of Machir son of Manasseh, one of the clans of Joseph, approached Moses and the leaders who were the heads of the Israelite families and addressed them, Num 27:11Ch 7:14-16Jos 17:2-3Num 26:29-33 saying, “When the LORD commanded my lord to give the land as an inheritance to the Israelites by lot, He also commanded him to give the inheritance of our brother Zelophehad to his daughters. Jos 17:3-6Num 27:1-7Num 33:54Job 42:15Jos 13:6Jos 14:1-2Num 26:55-56 But if they marry any of the men from the other tribes of Israel, their inheritance will be withdrawn from the portion of our fathers and added to the tribe into which they marry. So our allotted inheritance would be taken away. And when the Jubilee for the Israelites comes, their inheritance will be added to the tribe into which they marry and taken away from the tribe of our fathers.” Isa 61:2Lev 25:10-18Lev 25:23Luk 4:18-19
So at the word of the LORD, Moses commanded the Israelites: “The tribe of the sons of Joseph speaks correctly. Num 27:7Deu 5:28 This is what the LORD has commanded concerning the daughters of Zelophehad: They may marry anyone they please, provided they marry within a clan of the tribe of their father. Num 36:122Co 6:14Gen 24:3Gen 24:57-58 No inheritance in Israel may be transferred from tribe to tribe, because each of the Israelites is to retain the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers. 1Ki 21:3Num 36:9 Every daughter who possesses an inheritance from any Israelite tribe must marry within a clan of the tribe of her father, so that every Israelite will possess the inheritance of his fathers. 1Ch 23:22 No inheritance may be transferred from one tribe to another, for each tribe of Israel must retain its inheritance.”
So the daughters of Zelophehad did as the LORD had commanded Moses. 2Ch 30:12Exo 39:42-43Lev 24:23Mat 28:20 Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married to cousins on their father’s side. Num 27:1Num 26:33 They married within the clans of the descendants of Manasseh son of Joseph, and their inheritance remained within the tribe of their father’s clan.
These are the commandments and ordinances that the LORD gave the Israelites through Moses on the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho. Lev 27:34Lev 26:46Num 22:1Lev 11:46Lev 13:59Lev 14:54-57Lev 15:32-33Lev 7:37-38