“Our father died in the wilderness, and he was not in the company of them that gathered themselves together against the Lord in the company of Korah; but died in his own sin, and had no sons.”
Our father died in the wilderness, and he was not in the company of them that gathered themselves together against the LORD in the company of Korah: but died in his own sin; and had no sons — The daughters make their case with precision: Zelophehad did not die in rebellion like Korah and his company, nor did he violate any covenant stipulation; he simply lacked male heirs. Their argument implicitly invokes fairness: should their family lose inheritance because their father happened to lack sons? The system, they suggest, creates injustice.
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