Numbers 27

¹ Then the daughters of Zelophehad son of Hepher, son of Gilead, son of Machir, son of Manasseh, of the families of Manasseh son of Joseph, came near. These were the names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah and Tirzah. ² They stood before Moses and before Eleazar the priest, and before the princes and the whole congregation at the opening of the tent of appointment, saying. ³ Our father, he died in the wilderness, yet he was not in the midst of the congregation of those set against Yahweh in the congregation of Korah, but he died for his own sin, and sons he did not come to have. ⁴ Why should the name of our father be disadvantaged from the midst of his family because he had no son? Give now to us a holding in the midst of our father's brothers. ⁵ So Moses brought near their plea before Yahweh. ⁶ Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying. ⁷ Properly the daughters of Zelophehad are speaking. You shall give, yea give to them a holding for an allotment in the midst of the brothers of their father, and you will cause the allotment of their father to pass to them. ⁸ And to the sons of Israel you shall speak, saying: In case a man dies and he has no son then you will cause his allotment to pass on to his daughter. ⁹ If he has no daughter then you will give his allotment to his brothers; ¹⁰ and if he has no brothers then you will give his allotment to the brothers of his father. ¹¹ If his father had no brothers then you will give his allotment to his kin, the one nearest to him in his family, and he will tenant it. And it will come to be to the sons of Israel for a statute of judgment, just as Yahweh has instructed Moses. ¹² Yahweh said to Moses: Go up to this mount of the Abarim range and see the land which I give to the sons of Israel. ¹³ When you have seen it you will be gathered to your people, you too, just as Aaron your brother was gathered. ¹⁴ Just as in the contention of the congregation both of you rebelled against My bidding in the wilderness of Zin to sanctify Me at the waters before their eyes. (These were the waters of Meribah at Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.) ¹⁵ Moses spoke to Yahweh, saying. ¹⁶ May Yahweh Elohim of the spirits for all flesh give supervision over the congregation to a man ¹⁷ who may go forth before them and enter before them, and who may bring them forth and bring them in so that the congregation of Yahweh shall not become like a flock for whom there is no shepherd. ¹⁸ Yahweh said to Moses: Take to you Joshua son of Nun, a man in whom there is spirit, and support your hands on him;" ¹⁹ have him stand before Eleazar the priest and before the whole congregation and instruct him before their eyes. ²⁰ Put some of your prestige on him so that the whole congregation of the sons of Israel may hearken to him. ²¹ And before Eleazar the priest shall he stand, and he will ask for him the judgment of the Urim before Yahweh. At his bidding shall they go forth and at his bidding they shall enter, he and all the sons of Israel with him, the whole congregation. ²² Moses did just as Yahweh had instructed him. He took Joshua and had him stand him before Eleazar the priest and before the whole congregation. ²³ Then he supported his hands on him and instructed him, just as Yahweh had spoken by means of Moses.