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Hoglah and Mahlah
How Hoglah and Mahlah are linked in Scripture, with every passage where their stories cross.
How they are linked
Hoglah and Mahlah were siblings.
Mahlah and Hoglah were daughters of Zelophehad. With their sisters they stood before Moses at the door of the tabernacle and asked for a possession among their father's brethren.
the names of the daughters of Zelophehad were Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah
Numbers 26:33, King James Version
Give unto us therefore a possession among the brethren of our father
Numbers 27:4, King James Version
Where they cross: Numbers 27:1-4
Notes are commentary, checked against the cited verses in a separate review. Quoted words are Scripture.
Every passage, in order
Numbers 26:33
33And Zelophehad the son of Hepher had no sons, but daughters: and the names of the daughters of Zelophehad were Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.
Numbers 27:1-4
1Then 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.
2And 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,
3Our 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.
4Why 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.
King James Version