Numbers 27:3

Inheritance Laws

1 Then came the daughters of ^aZelophehad the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, from the families of Manasseh the son of Joseph; and these were the names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.

2 And they stood before Moses, before Eleazar the priest, and before the leaders and all the congregation, by the doorway of the tabernacle of meeting, saying:

3 “Our father ^adied in the wilderness; but he was not in the company of those who gathered together against the Lord, ^bin company with Korah, but he died in his own sin; and he had no sons.

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

5 So Moses ^abrought their case before the Lord.

Commentaries:

Barnes' Notes

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Numbers 27:3

But died in his own sin - i. e., perished under the general sentence of exclusion from the land of promise passed on all the older generation, but limited to that generation alone. By virtue of the declaration in Numbers 14:31 the daughters of Zelophehad claim that their father' s sin should not be visited upon them.

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