Numbers 36:2

36:2 They said, “The Lord commanded my lord to give ¹  the land as an inheritance by lot to the Israelites; and my lord was commanded by the Lord to give the inheritance of our brother Zelophehad to his daughters.

Numbers 36:6

36:6 This is what ²  the Lord has commanded for Zelophehad’s daughters: ‘Let them marry ³  whomever they think best, ⁴  only they must marry within the family of their father’s tribe.

Numbers 36:10-11

36:10 As the Lord had commanded Moses, so the daughters of Zelophehad did. 36:11 For the daughters of Zelophehad – Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Noah – were married to the sons of their uncles. ⁵ 

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¹ tn The infinitive construct “to give” serves here as the complement or object of the verb, answering what the Lord had commanded Moses.

² tn Heb “the word that.”

³ tn The idiom again is “let them be for wives for….”

⁴ tn Heb “to the one who is good in their eyes.”

⁵ tn They married in the family as they were instructed. But the meaning of דּוֹד (dod) is not necessarily restricted to “uncle.”