Discovery BoxNumbers 27:7 
Context27:7 “The daughters of Zelophehad have a valid claim. 1 You must indeed 2 give them possession of an inheritance among their father’s relatives, and you must transfer 3 the inheritance of their father to them.
Numbers 36:2
Context36:2 They said, “The Lord commanded my lord to give 4 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
Context36:6 This is what 5 the Lord has commanded for Zelophehad’s daughters: ‘Let them marry 6 whomever they think best, 7 only they must marry within the family of their father’s tribe.
1 tn Heb “[the daughters of Zelophehad] speak right” (using the participle דֹּבְרֹת [dovÿrot] with כֵּן [ken]).
2 tn The Hebrew text uses the infinitive absolute with the imperfect tense. The imperfect is functioning as the imperfect of instruction, and so the infinitive strengthens the force of the instruction.
3 tn The verb is the Hiphil perfect with a vav (ו) consecutive, from the root עָבַר (’avar, “to pass over”). Here it functions as the equivalent of the imperfect of instruction: “and you shall cause to pass,” meaning, “transfer.”
4 tn The infinitive construct “to give” serves here as the complement or object of the verb, answering what the
5 tn Heb “the word that.”
6 tn The idiom again is “let them be for wives for….”
7 tn Heb “to the one who is good in their eyes.”
