Numbers 27:7

27:7 “The daughters of Zelophehad have a valid claim. ¹  You must indeed ²  give them possession of an inheritance among their father’s relatives, and you must transfer ³  the inheritance of their father to them.

Numbers 30:16

30:16 These are the statutes that the Lord commanded Moses, relating to ⁴  a man and his wife, and a father and his young daughter who is still living in her father’s house.

Numbers 36:2

36:2 They said, “The Lord commanded my lord to give ⁵  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.

Numbers 36:6

36:6 This is what ⁶  the Lord has commanded for Zelophehad’s daughters: ‘Let them marry ⁷  whomever they think best, ⁸  only they must marry within the family of their father’s tribe.

Numbers 36:8

36:8 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 ⁹  may retain the inheritance of his fathers.

¹ tn Heb “[the daughters of Zelophehad] speak right” (using the participle דֹּבְרֹת [dovÿrot] with כֵּן [ken]).

² tn The Hebrew text uses the infinitive absolute with the imperfect tense. The imperfect is functioning as the imperfect of instruction, and so the infinitive strengthens the force of the instruction.

³ tn The verb is the Hiphil perfect with a vav (ו) consecutive, from the root עָבַר (’avar, “to pass over”). Here it functions as the equivalent of the imperfect of instruction: “and you shall cause to pass,” meaning, “transfer.”

⁴ tn Heb “between.”

⁷ tn The infinitive construct “to give” serves here as the complement or object of the verb, answering what the Lord had commanded Moses.

¹⁰ tn Heb “the word that.”

¹¹ tn The idiom again is “let them be for wives for….”

¹² tn Heb “to the one who is good in their eyes.”

¹³ tn The subject is “Israelites” and the verb is plural to agree with it, but the idea is collective as the word for “man” indicates: “so that the Israelites may possess – [each] man the inheritance of his fathers.”