Numbers 36:11
New International Version
Zelophehad’s daughters—Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milkah and Noah—married their cousins on their father’s side.

New Living Translation
Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Noah all married cousins on their father’s side.

English Standard Version
for Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married to sons of their father’s brothers.

Berean Standard Bible
Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married to cousins on their father’s side.

King James Bible
For Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married unto their father's brothers' sons:

New King James Version
for Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married to the sons of their father’s brothers.

New American Standard Bible
Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad married their uncles’ sons.

NASB 1995
Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad married their uncles’ sons.

NASB 1977
Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad married their uncles’ sons.

Legacy Standard Bible
And Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad married their uncles’ sons.

Amplified Bible
For Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married to sons of their father’s brothers.

Christian Standard Bible
Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, married cousins on their father’s side.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, married cousins on their father’s side.

American Standard Version
for Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophedad, were married unto their father's brothers' sons.

English Revised Version
for Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married unto their father's brothers' sons.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Noah married their cousins on their father's side of the family.

International Standard Version
for Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Noah: Zelophehad's daughters married their uncle's sons.

Majority Standard Bible
Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married to cousins on their father?s side.

NET Bible
For the daughters of Zelophehad--Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Noah--were married to the sons of their uncles.

New Heart English Bible
for Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married to their father's brothers' sons.

Webster's Bible Translation
For Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married to their father's brothers' sons:

World English Bible
for Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married to their father’s brothers’ sons.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
and Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Noah, daughters of Zelophehad, are for wives to the sons of their fathers’ brothers;

Young's Literal Translation
and Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Noah, daughters of Zelophehad, are to the sons of their fathers' brethren for wives;

Smith's Literal Translation
For Mahlah, Tirzah and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, shall be to the sons of their uncles for wives.
Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
And Maala, and Thersa, and Hegla, and Melcha, and Noa were married to the sons of their uncle by their father

Catholic Public Domain Version
And Mahlah, and Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Noa were wed to the sons of their paternal uncle,

New American Bible
Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah and Noah, Zelophehad’s daughters, married sons of their uncles on their father’s side.

New Revised Standard Version
Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, married sons of their father’s brothers.
Translations from Aramaic
Lamsa Bible
For Mahlah, Tirzah, Hagla, Milcah, and Joah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married to the sons of their father's brothers;

Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
And Makhla and Tartsa and Khagla and Melka and Yaa, the daughters of Tsalphkhad, were married to the sons of their father's brothers:
OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
For Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married unto their father's brothers' sons.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
So Thersa, and Egla, and Melcha, and Nua, and Malaa, the daughters of Salpaad, married their cousins;

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Zelophehad's Daughters Marry
10So the daughters of Zelophehad did as the LORD had commanded Moses. 11 Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married to cousins on their father’s side. 12They married within the clans of the descendants of Manasseh son of Joseph, and their inheritance remained within the tribe of their father’s clan.…

Cross References
Numbers 27:1-11
Now the daughters of Zelophehad son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, belonged to the clans of Manasseh son of Joseph. These were the names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah. They approached / the entrance to the Tent of Meeting, stood before Moses, Eleazar the priest, the leaders, and the whole congregation, and said, / “Our father died in the wilderness, but he was not among the followers of Korah who gathered together against the LORD. Instead, he died because of his own sin, and he had no sons. ...

Joshua 17:3-6
But Zelophehad son of Hepher (the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh) had no sons but only daughters. These are the names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah. / They approached Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the leaders, and said, “The LORD commanded Moses to give us an inheritance among our brothers.” So Joshua gave them an inheritance among their father’s brothers, in keeping with the command of the LORD. / Thus ten shares fell to Manasseh, in addition to the land of Gilead and Bashan beyond the Jordan, ...

Genesis 21:10-12
and she said to Abraham, “Expel the slave woman and her son, for the slave woman’s son will never share in the inheritance with my son Isaac!” / Now this matter distressed Abraham greatly because it concerned his son Ishmael. / But God said to Abraham, “Do not be distressed about the boy and your maidservant. Listen to everything that Sarah tells you, for through Isaac your offspring will be reckoned.

Genesis 24:60
And they blessed Rebekah and said to her, “Our sister, may you become the mother of thousands upon thousands. May your offspring possess the gates of their enemies.”

Genesis 31:14-16
And Rachel and Leah replied, “Do we have any portion or inheritance left in our father’s house? / Are we not regarded by him as outsiders? Not only has he sold us, but he has certainly squandered what was paid for us. / Surely all the wealth that God has taken away from our father belongs to us and to our children. So do whatever God has told you.”

Exodus 21:9
And if he chooses her for his son, he must deal with her as with a daughter.

Leviticus 25:10
So you are to consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty in the land for all its inhabitants. It shall be your Jubilee, when each of you is to return to his property and to his clan.

Deuteronomy 25:5-6
When brothers dwell together and one of them dies without a son, the widow must not marry outside the family. Her husband’s brother is to take her as his wife and fulfill the duty of a brother-in-law for her. / The first son she bears will carry on the name of the dead brother, so that his name will not be blotted out from Israel.

Ruth 4:5-10
Then Boaz said, “On the day you buy the land from Naomi and also from Ruth the Moabitess, you must also acquire the widow of the deceased in order to raise up the name of the deceased on his inheritance.” / The kinsman-redeemer replied, “I cannot redeem it myself, or I would jeopardize my own inheritance. Take my right of redemption, because I cannot redeem it.” / Now in former times in Israel, concerning the redemption or exchange of property, to make any matter legally binding a man would remove his sandal and give it to the other party, and this was a confirmation in Israel. ...

1 Chronicles 23:22
Eleazar died without having any sons; he had only daughters. Their cousins, the sons of Kish, married them.

Job 42:15
No women as beautiful as Job’s daughters could be found in all the land, and their father granted them an inheritance among their brothers.

Isaiah 54:17
No weapon formed against you shall prosper, and you will refute every tongue that accuses you. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their vindication is from Me,” declares the LORD.

Matthew 22:24-28
“Teacher,” they said, “Moses declared that if a man dies without having children, his brother is to marry the widow and raise up offspring for him. / Now there were seven brothers among us. The first one married and died without having children. So he left his wife to his brother. / The same thing happened to the second and third brothers, down to the seventh. ...

Mark 12:19-23
“Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies and leaves a wife but no children, the man is to marry his brother’s widow and raise up offspring for him. / Now there were seven brothers. The first one married and died, leaving no children. / Then the second one married the widow, but he also died and left no children. And the third did likewise. ...

Luke 20:28-33
“Teacher,” they said, “Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies and leaves a wife but no children, the man is to marry his brother’s widow and raise up offspring for him. / Now there were seven brothers. The first one married a wife but died childless. / Then the second ...


Treasury of Scripture

For Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married to their father's brothers' sons:

Numbers 27:1
Then came 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: and these are the names of his daughters; Mahlah, Noah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Tirzah.

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Numbers 36
1. The inheritance of daughters is remedied by marrying in their own tribes
7. Lest the inheritance should be removed from the tribe
10. The daughters of Zelophehad marry their father's brothers' sons














Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Noah
These names represent the five daughters of Zelophehad, who are significant figures in the narrative of Israel's journey to the Promised Land. Their account is a testament to the progressive nature of God's law, as they successfully petitioned for the right to inherit their father's land in the absence of a male heir (Numbers 27:1-11). The mention of their names here underscores their importance and the recognition of women's rights in a patriarchal society. Each name carries its own meaning and significance: Mahlah means "sickness," Tirzah means "delight," Hoglah means "partridge," Milcah means "queen," and Noah means "motion." These meanings reflect the diverse experiences and roles of women in biblical history.

the daughters of Zelophehad
Zelophehad's daughters are a unique example of faith and courage. Their account is a pivotal moment in the biblical narrative, highlighting the importance of justice and equality. In a time when women had limited rights, their boldness in approaching Moses and the leaders of Israel to claim their inheritance is a powerful reminder of God's fairness and the value He places on each individual, regardless of gender. This account also illustrates the adaptability of the Mosaic Law to address new situations, ensuring that justice prevails.

married cousins on their father’s side
This phrase indicates the daughters' compliance with the command given by God to Moses, ensuring that their inheritance remained within their tribe (Numbers 36:6-9). By marrying within their father's family, they preserved the tribal allotment and maintained the integrity of the inheritance system established by God. This decision reflects the importance of family and tribal identity in ancient Israel, as well as the communal responsibility to uphold God's commands. It also demonstrates the balance between individual rights and communal obligations, a theme that resonates throughout the Scriptures.

(11) Were married unto their father's brothers' sons.--Better, unto the sons of their near kinsmen. The word dod generally denotes an uncle on the father's side, and probably does so in the present case; but in Jeremiah 32:12 it seems to denote a cousin.

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Verse 11. - Mahlah, etc. It is a curious instance of the inartificial character of the sacred records that these five names, which have not the least interest in themselves, are repeated thrice in this Book, and once in Joshua (Joshua 17:3). It is evident that the case made a deep impression upon the mind of the nation at the time. Their father's brothers' sons. The Hebrew word דּוד is always translated "father's brother," or "uncle;" and that seems to be its ordinary meaning, although in Jeremiah 32:12 it stands for uncle's son. There is no reason to depart from the customary reading here. No doubt the daughters of Zelophehad acted according to the spirit as well as the letter of the law, and married the nearest male relatives who were open to their choice. The Septuagint

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Mahlah,
מַחְלָ֣ה (maḥ·lāh)
Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 4244: Mahlah -- a daughter of Zelophehad, also a Gileadite

Tirzah,
תִרְצָ֗ה (ṯir·ṣāh)
Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 8656: Tirzah -- daughter of Zelophehad, also a Canaanite city

Hoglah,
וְחָגְלָ֧ה (wə·ḥā·ḡə·lāh)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 2295: Hoglah -- 'partridge', a female descendant of Manasseh

Milcah,
וּמִלְכָּ֛ה (ū·mil·kāh)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 4435: Milcah -- two Israelite women

and Noah,
וְנֹעָ֖ה (wə·nō·‘āh)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 5270: Noah -- a woman of Manasseh

the daughters
בְּנ֣וֹת (bə·nō·wṯ)
Noun - feminine plural construct
Strong's 1323: A daughter

of Zelophehad,
צְלָפְחָ֑ד (ṣə·lā·p̄ə·ḥāḏ)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 6765: Zelophehad -- a man of Manasseh

were married
לְנָשִֽׁים׃ (lə·nā·šîm)
Preposition-l | Noun - feminine plural
Strong's 802: Woman, wife, female

to cousins on their
לִבְנֵ֥י (liḇ·nê)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 1121: A son

father’s side.
דֹדֵיהֶ֖ן (ḏō·ḏê·hen)
Noun - masculine plural construct | third person feminine plural
Strong's 1730: To love, a love-token, lover, friend, an uncle


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