Numbers 36:10

“Even as the Lord commanded Moses, so did the daughters of Zelophehad.] They married into, the family of their father’s tribe, according to the following account.”

“The daughters of Zelophehad had obtained an ordinance Numbers 28:6-11 which permitted the daughters of an Israelite dying without male issue to inherit their father’s property. The chiefs of the Machirites, of whom Zelophehad had been one, now obtain a supplemental enactment, directing that heiresses should marry within their own tribe. Numbers 36:4 Be taken away - i. e. be permanently taken away. The jubilee year, by not restoring the estate to the tribe to which it originally belonged, would in effect confirm the alienation. Numbers 36:11 Unto their father’s brothers’ sons - Or more generally, “unto the sons of their kinsmen.” return to 'Top of Page' Footnotes: Copyright Statement These…”

“36:10-12 As they had been instructed, Zelophehad’s five daughters all married cousins on their father’s side, keeping their father’s allotment within his clan. Marriage to a first cousin was acceptable in ancient Hebrew society (cp. Lev 18, 20; see also 1 Chr 23:22) as well as in other Near Eastern cultures.”

“Exo 39:42, Exo 39:43; Lev 24:23; Ch2 30:12; Mat 28:20 Numbers 36:11”

“In Num 36:10-12 it is related that, in accordance with these instructions, the five daughters of Zelophehad, whose names are repeated from Num 26:33 and Num 27:1 (see also Jos 17:3), married husbands from the families of the Manassites, namely, sons of their cousins (? uncles), and thus their inheritance remained in their father's tribe (על היה, to be and remain upon anything). Numbers 36:13”