Numbers

⁵Then Moses gave a ruling to the Israelites by the word of the Lord: “What the tribe of the Josephites is saying is right. ⁶This is what the Lord has commanded for Zelophehad’s daughters: ‘Let them marry whomever they think best, only they must marry within the family of their father’s tribe. ⁷In this way the inheritance of the Israelites will not be transferred from tribe to tribe. But every one of the Israelites must retain the ancestral heritage. ⁸And every daughter who possesses an inheritance from any of the tribes of the Israelites must become the wife of a man from any family in her father’s tribe, so that every Israelite may retain the inheritance of his fathers. ⁹No inheritance may pass from tribe to tribe. But every one of the tribes of the Israelites must retain its inheritance.” ¹⁰As the Lord had commanded Moses, so the daughters of Zelophehad did. ¹¹For the daughters of Zelophehad – Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Noah – were married to the sons of their uncles.