Numbers 27:1-3 New English Translation
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27 [a] Then the daughters of Zelophehad son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh of the families of Manasseh,[b] the son of Joseph came forward. Now these are the names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah. 2 And they stood before Moses and Eleazar the priest and the leaders of the whole assembly at the entrance to the tent of meeting and said, 3 “Our father died in the wilderness, although[c] he was not part of[d] the company of those that gathered themselves together against the Lord in the company of Korah, but he died for his own sin,[e] and he had no sons.
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- Numbers 27:1 sn For additional information on this section, see N. H. Snaith, “The Daughters of Zelophehad,” VT 16 (1966): 124-27; and J. Weingreen, “The Case of the Daughters of Zelophehad,” VT 16 (1966): 518-22.
- Numbers 27:1 tc The phrase “of the families of Manasseh” is absent from the Latin Vulgate.
- Numbers 27:3 tn This clause begins with a vav (ו) on a pronoun, marking it out as a disjunctive vav. In this context it fits best to take it as a circumstantial clause introducing concession.
- Numbers 27:3 tn Heb “in the midst of.”
- Numbers 27:3 tn The word order is emphatic: “but in/on account of his own sins he died.”
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