Numbers 27:1–11

Then came the daughters of Salphaad, the son of Hepher, the son of Galaad, the son of Machir, the son of Manasses, who was the son of Joseph: and their names are Maala, and Noa, and Hegla, and Melcha, and Thersa.

²And they stood before Moses and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the people at the door of the tabernacle of the covenant, and said:

³Our father died in the desert, and was not in the sedition, that was raised against the Lord under Core, but he died in his own sin: and he had no male children. Why is his name taken away out of his family, because he had no son? Give us a possession among the kinsmen of our father.

⁴And Moses referred their cause to the judgment of the Lord.

⁵And the Lord said to him:

⁶The daughters of Salphaad demand a just thing: Give them a possession among their father’s kindred, and let them succeed him in his inheritance.

⁷And to the children of Israel thou shalt speak these things:

⁸When a man dieth without a son, his inheritance shall pass to his daughter.

⁹If he have no daughter, his brethren shall succeed him.

¹⁰And if he have no brethren, you shall give the inheritance to his father’s brethren.

¹¹But if he have no uncles by the father, the inheritance shall be given to them that are the next akin. And this shall be to the children of Israel sacred by a perpetual law, as the Lord hath commanded Moses.