MAHLAH

Passages on this topic · 8

• Numbers 26:33

  Zelophehad the son of Hepher had no sons, but daughters: and the names of the daughters of Zelophehad were Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.

• 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.