“And they came near before Eleazar the priest, and before Joshua the son of Nun, and before the princes, saying, The Lord commanded Moses to give us an inheritance among our brethren. Therefore according to the commandment of the Lord he gave them an inheritance among the brethren of their father.”
And Zelophehad had no sons; Zelophehad died, and his daughters inherited among the kinsmen of their father — The reiteration of Zelophehad's death and childlessness emphasizes the legal-theological principle at stake: inheritance is not merely biological but covenantal, dependent on the LORD's just allocation. The daughters' inheritance 'among the kinsmen' (baqereb) places them within the family structure rather than outside it, integrating female property rights into tribal identity. This represents a landmark moment in covenant law where justice ('adālâ) overrides conventional patriarchal strictures.
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