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Milcah and Moses
How Milcah and Moses are linked in Scripture, with every passage where their stories cross.
How they are linked
Milcah and Moses met.
Milcah stood before Moses with her sisters to claim their father's land. When their tribe later objected, Moses ruled that they could marry whom they chose within their father's tribe.
And they stood before Moses
Numbers 27:2, King James Version
only to the family of the tribe of their father shall they marry
Numbers 36:6, King James Version
Where they cross: Numbers 27:1-5
Notes are commentary, checked against the cited verses in a separate review. Quoted words are Scripture.
Every passage, in order
Numbers 27:1-5
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.
5And Moses brought their cause before the Lord.
Numbers 36:6
6This 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.
King James Version