# Numbers 36 📖: Inheritance of Zelophehad's Daughters [[📚 Explore the Bible Books]] [[-Numbers Overview]] | [[Numbers 35]] | [[Deuteronomy 01]] > [!info] Table of Contents > [[#📜 Scripture Text (NET)]] > [[#📖 Verse-by-Verse Commentary]] > [[#🤔 Interesting Facts / Historical and Cultural Insights]] > [[#🧠 Chapter Summary]] > [[#✝️ Christ in This Chapter]] > [[#🔎 Key Principles / 🛟 Life Application]] > [[#💬 Discussion Questions]] > [[#✍️ Key Verses to Remember]] > [[#🔗 Related Passages/Cross Reference]] > [[#🙏 Devotional Reflection]] > [[#📂 Internal Notes]] ## 📜 Scripture Text (NET) (The NET Bible: New English Translation. Biblical Studies Press, 2005) ### Women Who Inherit Property [[#Verse 01.]] Then the heads of the family groups of the Gileadites, the descendant of Machirthe descendant of Manasseh, who were from the Josephite families, approached and spoke before Moses and the leaders who were the heads of the Israelite families. [[#Verse 02.]] They said, “The Lord commanded my lord to give the land as an inheritance by lot to the Israelites; and my lord was commanded by the Lord to give the inheritance of our brother Zelophehad to his daughters. [[#Verse 03.]] Now if they should be married to one of the men from another Israelite tribe, their inheritance would be taken from the inheritance of our fathers and added to the inheritance of the tribe into which they marry. As a result, it will be taken from the lot of our inheritance. [[#Verse 04.]] And when the Jubilee of the Israelites is to take place, their inheritance will be added to the inheritance of the tribe into which they marry. So their inheritance will be taken away from the inheritance of our ancestral tribe.” [[#Verse 05.]] Then Moses gave a ruling to the Israelites by the word of the Lord: “What the tribe of the Josephites is saying is right. [[#Verse 06.]] This 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. [[#Verse 07.]] In 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. [[#Verse 08.]] And 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. [[#Verse 09.]] No inheritance may pass from tribe to tribe. But every one of the tribes of the Israelites must retain its inheritance.’” [[#Verse 10.]] As the Lord had commanded Moses, so the daughters of Zelophehad did. [[#Verse 11.]] For the daughters of Zelophehad—Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Noah—were married to the sons of their uncles. [[#Verse 12.]] They were married into the families of the Manassehites, the descendants of Joseph, and their inheritance remained in the tribe of their father’s family. [[#Verse 13.]] These are the commandments and the decisions that the Lord commanded the Israelites through the authority of Moses, in the rift valley plains by Moab along the Jordan River opposite Jericho. ## 📖 Verse-by-Verse Commentary ###### Overall. ###### Verse 01. ###### Verse 02. ###### Verse 03. ###### Verse 04. ###### Verse 05. ###### Verse 06. ###### Verse 07. ###### Verse 08. ###### Verse 09. ###### Verse 10. ###### Verse 11. ###### Verse 12. ###### Verse 13. ## 🤔 Interesting Facts / Historical and Cultural Insights 1. The heads of the Gileadite clans of Manasseh raised the concern (36:1). 2. This chapter completes the case of Zelophehad's daughters from chapter 27. 3. They feared the land would pass to another tribe if the daughters married outside Manasseh (36:3). 4. Even the Year of Jubilee would not return the land in that case (36:4). 5. The daughters were free to marry whom they chose, but within their father's tribe (36:6). 6. Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Noah married their cousins (36:11). 7. Their names are listed in a different order here than in 27:1. 8. Joshua 17:3-6 shows the daughters receiving their land west of the Jordan. 9. Numbers begins at Sinai and ends on the plains of Moab across from Jericho (36:13). 10. The book closes with Israel ready to enter the land, which leads into Moses' sermons in Deuteronomy. ## 🧠 Chapter Summary > [!note] 🌱 Still growing. This section is on its way. ## ✝️ Christ in This Chapter Christ is the One who secures every believer's inheritance. God protected each tribe's inheritance so none would be lost (36:7), and we are sealed with the Holy Spirit, the guarantee of our inheritance in Christ (Ephesians 1:13-14). ## 🔎 Key Principles / 🛟 Life Application > [!note] 🌱 Still growing. This section is on its way. ## 💬 Discussion Questions 1. The leaders worried the daughters' land could leave the tribe (36:3-4). How did God honor both the daughters and the tribe? 2. The daughters did as the Lord commanded (36:10). What does their obedience teach about trusting God's boundaries? 3. Numbers ends on the edge of the promised land (36:13). Where are you waiting at the edge of something God has promised? ## ✍️ Key Verses to Remember - 📖 verse 5: The tribe of Joseph's descendants is right in what they say. - 📖 verse 7: No inheritance in Israel may pass from tribe to tribe. - 📖 verse 13: These are the commands the Lord gave on the plains of Moab. ## 🔗 Related Passages/Cross Reference - 🔗 [[Numbers 27#Verse 01.|Numbers 27:1-11]] - The daughters first bring their case. - 🔗 [[Joshua 17#Verse 03.|Joshua 17:3-6]] - The daughters receive their inheritance. - 🔗 [[Leviticus 25#Verse 10.|Leviticus 25:10]] - The Year of Jubilee. - 🔗 [[Ephesians 01#Verse 13.|Ephesians 1:13-14]] - The Spirit guarantees our inheritance. - 🔗 [[1 Peter 01#Verse 03.|1 Peter 1:3-4]] - An inheritance that will never perish. ## 🙏 Devotional Reflection > [!note] 🌱 Still growing. This section is on its way. ## 📂 Internal Notes