Numbers 36:10-11
Context36:10 As the Lord had commanded Moses, so the daughters of Zelophehad did. 36:11 For the daughters of Zelophehad – Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Noah – were married to the sons of their uncles. 1
Numbers 26:33
Context26:33 Now Zelophehad son of Hepher had no sons, but only daughters; and the names of the daughters of Zelophehad were Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.
Numbers 27:7
Context27:7 “The daughters of Zelophehad have a valid claim. 2 You must indeed 3 give them possession of an inheritance among their father’s relatives, and you must transfer 4 the inheritance of their father to them.
Numbers 36:6
Context36:6 This is what 5 the Lord has commanded for Zelophehad’s daughters: ‘Let them marry 6 whomever they think best, 7 only they must marry within the family of their father’s tribe.


[36:11] 1 tn They married in the family as they were instructed. But the meaning of דּוֹד (dod) is not necessarily restricted to “uncle.”
[27:7] 1 tn Heb “[the daughters of Zelophehad] speak right” (using the participle דֹּבְרֹת [dovÿrot] with כֵּן [ken]).
[27:7] 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.
[27:7] 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.”
[36:6] 1 tn Heb “the word that.”
[36:6] 2 tn The idiom again is “let them be for wives for….”