DAUGHTER

Passages on this topic · 27

• Genesis 36:2

  Esau took his wives from the daughters of Canaan: Adah the daughter of Elon, the Hittite; and Oholibamah the daughter of Anah, the daughter of Zibeon, the Hivite;

• Exodus 21:7

  “If a man sells his daughter to be a female servant, she shall not go out as the male servants do.

• Exodus 21:8

  If she doesn’t please her master, who has married her to himself, then he shall let her be redeemed. He shall have no right to sell her to a foreign people, since he has dealt deceitfully with her.

• Exodus 21:9

  If he marries her to his son, he shall deal with her as a daughter.

• Exodus 21:10

  If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, and her marital rights.

• Leviticus 20:14

  “‘If a man takes a wife and her mother, it is wickedness: they shall be burned with fire, both he and they; that there may be no wickedness among you.

• Numbers 27:1

  Then the daughters of Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of Manasseh the son of Joseph came near. These are the names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Tirzah.

• Numbers 27:2

  They stood before Moses, and before Eleazar the priest, and before the princes and all the congregation, at the door of the Tent of Meeting, saying,

• Numbers 27:3

  “Our father died in the wilderness. He was not among the company of those who gathered themselves together against Yahweh in the company of Korah, but he died in his own sin. He had no sons.

• Numbers 27:4

  Why should the name of our father be taken away from among his family, because he had no son? Give to us a possession among the brothers of our father.”

• Numbers 27:5

  Moses brought their cause before Yahweh.

• Numbers 27:6

  Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

• Numbers 27:7

  “The daughters of Zelophehad speak right. You shall surely give them a possession of an inheritance among their father’s brothers. You shall cause the inheritance of their father to pass to them.

• Numbers 27:8

  You shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘If a man dies, and has no son, then you shall cause his inheritance to pass to his daughter.

• Numbers 27:9

  If he has no daughter, then you shall give his inheritance to his brothers.

• Numbers 27:10

  If he has no brothers, then you shall give his inheritance to his father’s brothers.

• Numbers 27:11

  If his father has no brothers, then you shall give his inheritance to his kinsman who is next to him of his family, and he shall possess it. This shall be a statute and ordinance for the children of Israel, as Yahweh commanded Moses.’”

• Joshua 17:3

  But Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, had no sons, but daughters. These are the names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.

• Joshua 17:4

  They came to Eleazar the priest, and to Joshua the son of Nun, and to the princes, saying, “Yahweh commanded Moses to give us an inheritance among our brothers.” Therefore according to the commandment of Yahweh he gave them an inheritance among the brothers of their father.

• Joshua 17:5

  Ten parts fell to Manasseh, besides the land of Gilead and Bashan, which is beyond the Jordan;

• Joshua 17:6

  because the daughters of Manasseh had an inheritance among his sons. The land of Gilead belonged to the rest of the sons of Manasseh.

• Judges 1:12

  Caleb said, “I will give Achsah my daughter as wife to the man who strikes Kiriath Sepher, and takes it.”

• Judges 1:13

  Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother, took it, so he gave him Achsah his daughter as his wife.

• Ruth 4:3

  He said to the near kinsman, “Naomi, who has come back out of the country of Moab, is selling the parcel of land, which was our brother Elimelech’s.

• 1 Samuel 17:25

  The men of Israel said, “Have you seen this man who has come up? He has surely come up to defy Israel. The king will give great riches to the man who kills him, and will give him his daughter, and make his father’s house free in Israel.”

• 1 Samuel 18:20

  Michal, Saul’s daughter, loved David; and they told Saul, and the thing pleased him.

• 1 Samuel 18:21

  Saul said, I will give her to him, that she may be a snare to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him. Therefore Saul said to David, “You shall today be my son-in-law a second time.”