Numbers 27:1–11

The Daughters of Zelophehad

¹Then ^athe daughters of Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of Manasseh the son of Joseph, came near; and these are ^bthe names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah and Hoglah and Milcah and Tirzah.

²And they stood before Moses and before Eleazar the priest and before the leaders and all the congregation, at the doorway of the tent of meeting, saying,

³“Our father ^adied in the wilderness, yet he was not among the congregation of those who gathered themselves together against Yahweh in the congregation of Korah; but he died in his own sin, and ^bhe had no sons.

⁴“Why should the name of our father be withdrawn from among his family because he had no son? Give us a possession among our father’s brothers.”

^5aSo Moses brought their case near before Yahweh.

⁶Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

⁷“^aThe daughters of Zelophehad are right in their statements. You shall surely give them a possession for an inheritance among their father’s brothers, and you shall have the inheritance of their father pass on to them.

⁸“Further, you shall speak to the sons of Israel, saying, ‘If a man dies and has no son, then you shall have his inheritance pass on to his daughter.

⁹‘And if he has no daughter, then you shall give his inheritance to his brothers.

¹⁰‘And if he has no brothers, then you shall give his inheritance to his father’s brothers.

¹¹‘And if his father has no brothers, then you shall give his inheritance to his blood relative in his own family, and he shall possess it; and it shall be a ^astatutory judgment to the sons of Israel, just as Yahweh commanded Moses.’”