Taken from the HOLY BIBLE: NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION (C) 1978 by the New 
York Bible Society, used by permission of Zondervan Bible Publishers.

                                  MAHLAH

NUM 26:33  (Zelophehad son of Hepher had no sons; he had only daughters, 
whose names were Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah and Tirzah.)

NUM 27:1  The daughters of Zelophehad son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the 
son of Makir, the son of Manasseh, belonged to the clans of Manasseh son of 
Joseph. The names of the daughters were Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah and 
Tirzah. They approached

NUM 27:2  the entrance to the Tent of Meeting and stood before Moses, 
Eleazar the priest, the leaders and the whole assembly, and said,

NUM 27:3  "Our father died in the desert. He was not among Korah's 
followers, who banded together against the LORD, but he died for his own 
sin and left no sons.

NUM 27:4  Why should our father's name disappear from his clan because he 
had no son? Give us property among our father's relatives."

NUM 27:5  So Moses brought their case before the LORD

NUM 27:6  and the LORD said to him,

NUM 27:7  "What Zelophehad's daughters are saying is right. You must 
certainly give them property as an inheritance among their father's 
relatives and turn their father's inheritance over to them.

NUM 36:1  The family heads of the clan of Gilead son of Makir, the son of 
Manasseh, who were from the clans of the descendants of Joseph, came and 
spoke before Moses and the leaders, the heads of the Israelite families.

NUM 36:2  They said, "When the LORD commanded my lord to give the land as 
an inheritance to the Israelites by lot, he ordered you to give the 
inheritance of our brother Zelophehad to his daughters.

NUM 36:3  Now suppose they marry men from other Israelite tribes; then 
their inheritance will be taken from our ancestral inheritance and added to 
that of the tribe they marry into. And so part of the inheritance allotted 
to us will be taken away.

NUM 36:4  When the Year of Jubilee for the Israelites comes, their 
inheritance will be added to that of the tribe into which they marry, and 
their property will be taken from the tribal inheritance of our 
forefathers."

NUM 36:5  Then at the LORD'S command Moses gave this order to the 
Israelites: "What the tribe of the descendants of Joseph is saying is 
right.

NUM 36:6  This is what the LORD commands for Zelophehad's daughters: They 
may marry anyone they please as long as they marry within the tribal clan 
of their father.

NUM 36:7  No inheritance in Israel is to pass from tribe to tribe, for 
every Israelite shall keep the tribal land inherited from his forefathers.

NUM 36:8  Every daughter who inherits land in any Israelite tribe must 
marry someone in her father's tribal clan, so that every Israelite will 
possess the inheritance of his fathers.

NUM 36:9  No inheritance may pass from tribe to tribe, for each Israelite 
tribe is to keep the land it inherits."

NUM 36:10  So Zelophehad's daughters did as the LORD commanded Moses.

NUM 36:11  Zelophehad's daughters--Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah and 
Noah--married their cousins on their father's side.

NUM 36:12  They married within the clans of the descendants of Manasseh son 
of Joseph, and their inheritance remained in their father's clan and tribe.

JOS 17:3  Now Zelophehad son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of 
Makir, the son of Manasseh, had no sons but only daughters, whose names 
were Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah and Tirzah.

JOS 17:4  They went to Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the 
leaders and said, "The LORD commanded Moses to give us an inheritance among 
our brothers." So Joshua gave them an inheritance along with the brothers 
of their father, according to the LORD'S command.

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