Discovery BoxNumbers 36:2 
Context36:2 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
Context36:6 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
Context36:10 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
1 tn The infinitive construct “to give” serves here as the complement or object of the verb, answering what the
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.”
