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Moses and Tirzah
How Moses and Tirzah are linked in Scripture, with every passage where their stories cross.
How they are linked
Moses and Tirzah met.
Tirzah stood before Moses with her four sisters. Their petition for their father's land was granted, and the sisters later did "as the Lord commanded Moses" about their marriages.
And they stood before Moses
Numbers 27:2, King James Version
Even as the Lord commanded Moses, so did the daughters of Zelophehad
Numbers 36:10, King James Version
Where they cross: Numbers 27:1-7
Notes are commentary, checked against the cited verses in a separate review. Quoted words are Scripture.
Every passage, in order
Numbers 27:1-7
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.
6And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
7The daughters of Zelophehad speak right: thou shalt surely give them a possession of an inheritance among their father’s brethren; and thou shalt cause the inheritance of their father to pass unto them.
Numbers 36:10
10Even as the Lord commanded Moses, so did the daughters of Zelophehad:
King James Version