Numbers 3:30

3:30 Now the leader of the clan of the families of the Kohathites was Elizaphan son of Uzziel.

Numbers 3:35

3:35 Now the leader of the clan of the families of Merari was Zuriel son of Abihail. These were to camp on the north side of the tabernacle.

Numbers 36:6

36:6 This is what ¹  the Lord has commanded for Zelophehad’s daughters: ‘Let them marry ²  whomever they think best, ³  only they must marry within the family of their father’s tribe.

Numbers 27:1

Special Inheritance Laws

27:1 ⁴ Then the daughters of Zelophehad son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh of the families of Manasseh, ⁵  the son Joseph came forward. Now these are the names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.

Numbers 36:1

Women and Land Inheritance

36:1 Then the heads of the family groups ⁶  of the Gileadites, the descendant of Machir, the descendant of Manasseh, who were from the Josephite families, approached and spoke before Moses ⁷  and the leaders who were the heads of the Israelite families. ⁸ 

¹ tn Heb “the word that.”

² tn The idiom again is “let them be for wives for….”

³ tn Heb “to the one who is good in their eyes.”

¹ sn For additional information on this section, see N. H. Snaith, “The Daughters of Zelophehad,” VT 16 (1966): 124-27; and J. Weingreen, “The Case of the Daughters of Zelophehad,” VT 16 (1966): 518-22.

² tc The phrase “of the families of Manasseh” is absent from the Latin Vulgate.

¹ tn The expression is “the heads of the fathers by the family of the Gileadites.”

² tn The Greek and the Syriac add “and before Eleazar the priest.”

³ tn Heb “heads of the fathers.”