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Milcah and Noah (Zelophehad's daughter)
How Milcah and Noah (Zelophehad's daughter) are linked in Scripture, with every passage where their stories cross.
How they are linked
Milcah and Noah (Zelophehad's daughter) were siblings.
Milcah and Noah were sisters of the tribe of Manasseh. When the chief fathers of Gilead warned that their land could pass to another tribe, the sisters married within their own.
the names of the daughters of Zelophehad were Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah
Numbers 26:33, King James Version
the chief fathers of the families of the children of Gilead
Numbers 36:1, King James Version
then shall their inheritance be taken from the inheritance of our fathers
Numbers 36:3, King James Version
Where they cross: Numbers 36:11
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 36:1
1And 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:
Numbers 36:3
3And 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.
Numbers 36:11
11For Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married unto their father’s brothers’ sons:
King James Version