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Milcah and Tirzah
How Milcah and Tirzah are linked in Scripture, with every passage where their stories cross.
How they are linked
Milcah and Tirzah were siblings.
Milcah and Tirzah were daughters of Zelophehad. In Canaan the sisters received their inheritance with the sons of Manasseh, as Moses had been commanded.
the names of the daughters of Zelophehad were Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah
Numbers 26:33, King James Version
the daughters of Manasseh had an inheritance among his sons
Joshua 17:6, King James Version
Where they cross: Joshua 17:3-6
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.
Joshua 17:3-6
3But Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, had no sons, but daughters: and these are the names of his daughters, Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.
4And they came near before Eleazar the priest, and before Joshua the son of Nun, and before the princes, saying, The Lord commanded Moses to give us an inheritance among our brethren. Therefore according to the commandment of the Lord he gave them an inheritance among the brethren of their father.
5And there fell ten portions to Manasseh, beside the land of Gilead and Bashan, which were on the other side Jordan;
6Because the daughters of Manasseh had an inheritance among his sons: and the rest of Manasseh’s sons had the land of Gilead.
King James Version