Numbers 36:1-2

Women and Land Inheritance

36:1 Then the heads of the family groups ¹  of the Gileadites, the descendant of Machir, the descendant of Manasseh, who were from the Josephite families, approached and spoke before Moses ²  and the leaders who were the heads of the Israelite families. ³  36:2 They said, “The Lord commanded my lord to give ⁴  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.

[36:1]  ¹ tn The expression is “the heads of the fathers by the family of the Gileadites.”

[36:1]  ² tn The Greek and the Syriac add “and before Eleazar the priest.”

[36:1]  ³ tn Heb “heads of the fathers.”

[36:2]  ⁴ tn The infinitive construct “to give” serves here as the complement or object of the verb, answering what the Lord had commanded Moses.