Numbers 27:1–7

A Law of Inheritance

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.

²They 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 company of those who gathered themselves together against the Lord in the company 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⁴“Why should the name of our father be withdrawn from among his family because he had no son?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 before the Lord.

⁶Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

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