Numbers 27:5
So Moses put their cause before the Lord.
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Numbers 27:1
Then 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, came forward: their names are Mahlah, Noah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Tirzah.
Numbers 27:2
They came before Moses and Eleazar the priest and the chiefs and all the people at the door of the Tent of meeting, and said,
Numbers 27:3
Death overtook our father in the waste land; he was not among those who were banded together with Korah against the Lord; but death came to him in his sin; and he had no sons.
Numbers 27:4
Why is the name of our father to be taken away from among his family, because he had no son? Give us a heritage among our father's brothers.
Numbers 27:5
So Moses put their cause before the Lord.
Numbers 27:6
And the Lord said to Moses,
Numbers 27:7
What the daughters of Zelophehad say is right: certainly you are to give them a heritage among their father's brothers: and let the property which would have been their father's go to them.
Numbers 27:8
And say to the children of Israel, If a man has no son at the time of his death, let his heritage go to his daughter.
Numbers 27:9
And if he has no daughter, then give his heritage to his brothers.
Numbers 27:10
And if he has no brothers, then give his heritage to his father's brothers.
Numbers 27:11
And if his father has no brothers, then give it to his nearest relation in the family, as his heritage: this is to be a decision made by law for the children of Israel, as the Lord gave orders to Moses.
Numbers 36:5
So by the direction of the Lord, Moses gave orders to the children of Israel, saying, What the tribe of the sons of Joseph have said is right.
Numbers 36:6
This is the order of the Lord about the daughters of Zelophehad: The Lord says, Let them take as their husbands whoever is most pleasing to them, but only among the family of their father's tribe.
Numbers 36:2
And said, The Lord gave orders to my lord to make distribution of the land as their heritage to the children of Israel: and my lord was ordered by the Lord to give the heritage of Zelophehad, our brother, to his daughters.
1 Chronicles 7:15
(And Gilead took a wife, whose name was Maacah, and his sister's name was Hammoleketh;) and the name of his brother was Zelophehad, who was the father of daughters.
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Exodus 18:19
Give ear now to my suggestion, and may God be with you: you are to be the people's representative before God, taking their causes to him:
Exodus 18:15
And Moses said to his father-in-law, Because the people come to me to get directions from God:
Exodus 18:16
And if they have any question between themselves, they come to me, and I am judge between a man and his neighbour, and I give them the orders and laws of God.
Leviticus 24:11
And the son of the Israelite woman said evil against the holy Name, with curses; and they took him to Moses. His mother's name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.
Leviticus 24:12
And they kept him shut up, till a decision might be given by the mouth of the Lord.
Leviticus 24:13
And the Lord said to Moses,
Numbers 15:34
And they had him shut up, because they had no directions about what was to be done with him.
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Proverbs 3:5
Put all your hope in God, not looking to your reason for support.
Proverbs 3:6
In all your ways give ear to him, and he will make straight your footsteps.
Numbers 9:8
And Moses said to them, Do nothing till the Lord gives me directions about you.
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Exodus 25:22
And there, between the two winged ones on the cover of the ark, I will come to you, face to face, and make clear to you all the orders I have to give you for the children of Israel.
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Numbers 7:89
And when Moses went into the Tent of meeting to have talk with him, then the Voice came to his ears from over the cover which was on the ark of witness, from between the two winged ones. And he had talk with him.
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