Numbers 26:52-56: And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Unto
these the land shall be divided for an inheritance according to the
number of names. To many thou shalt give the more inheritance, and to
few thou shalt give the less inheritance: to every one shall his
inheritance be given according to those that were numbered of him.
Notwithstanding the land shall be divided by lot: according to the names
of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit. According to the lot
shall the possession thereof be divided between many and few.
Numbers 27:1-11: Then came 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: and these are
the names of his daughters; Mahlah, Noah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and
Tirzah. And they stood before Moses, and before Eleazar the priest, and
before the princes and all the congregation, by the door of the
tabernacle of the congregation, saying, 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. Why should the name of our father be
done away from among his family, because he hath no son? Give unto us
therefore a possession among the brethren of our father. And Moses
brought their cause before the LORD. And the LORD spake unto Moses,
saying, The daughters of Zelophehad speak right: thou shalt surely give
them a possession of an inheritance among their father's brethren; and
thou shalt cause the inheritance of their father to pass unto them. And
thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a man die, and
have no son, then ye shall cause his inheritance to pass unto his
daughter. And if he have no daughter, then ye shall give his inheritance
unto his brethren. And if he have no brethren, then ye shall give his
inheritance unto his father's brethren. And if his father have no
brethren, then ye shall give his inheritance unto his kinsman that is
next to him of his family, and he shall possess it: and it shall be unto
the children of Israel a statute of judgment, as the LORD commanded
Moses.
Numbers 36:1-9: And the chief fathers of the families
of the children of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of
the families of the sons of Joseph, came near, and spake before Moses,
and before the princes, the chief fathers of the children of Israel: And
they said, The LORD commanded my lord to give the land for an
inheritance by lot to the children of Israel: and my lord was commanded
by the LORD to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother unto his
daughters. And if they be married to any of the sons of the other tribes
of the children of Israel, then shall their inheritance be taken from
the inheritance of our fathers, and shall be put to the inheritance of
the tribe whereunto they are received: so shall it be taken from the lot
of our inheritance. And when the jubile of the children of Israel shall
be, then shall their inheritance be put unto the inheritance of the
tribe whereunto they are received: so shall their inheritance be taken
away from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers.
And Moses commanded the
children of Israel according to the word of the LORD, saying, The tribe
of the sons of Joseph hath said well. This is the thing which the LORD
doth command concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, Let them
marry to whom they think best; only to the family of the tribe of their
father shall they marry. So shall not the inheritance of the children of
Israel remove from tribe to tribe: for every one of the children of
Israel shall keep himself to the inheritance of the tribe of his
fathers. And every daughter, that possesseth an inheritance in any tribe
of the children of Israel, shall be wife unto one of the family of the
tribe of her father, that the children of Israel may enjoy every man the
inheritance of his fathers. Neither shall the inheritance remove
from one tribe to another tribe; but every one of the tribes of the
children of Israel shall keep himself to his own inheritance.
INHERITANCE AMONG SONS OF ALL WIVES:
Deuteronomy 21:15-17: If a man have two wives,
one beloved, and another hated, and they have born him children, both
the beloved and the hated; and if the firstborn son be hers that was
hated: Then it shall be, when he maketh his sons to inherit that which
he hath, that he may not make the son of the beloved firstborn before
the son of the hated, which is indeed the firstborn: But he shall
acknowledge the son of the hated for the firstborn, by giving him a
double portion of all that he hath: for he is the beginning of his
strength; the right of the firstborn is his.