Mahlah

Family: Manasseh · Role: daughter of Zelophehad · First appears: Numbers 26

Mahlah was a daughter of Zelophehad of Manasseh, named alongside Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah. In Numbers 27, Moses brought their cause before God, who granted Zelophehad’s daughters an inheritance among their father’s brethren: “The daughters of Zelophehad speak right.”

In Numbers 36, God commanded that they marry within their father’s tribe, while allowing them to marry whom they thought best. Mahlah and her sisters Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Noah married their father’s brothers’ sons, and their inheritance remained within Manasseh.

Relationship record

Life events

• God grants Zelophehad’s daughters an inheritance among their father’s brethren.(Numbers 27)
  • With: God Noah Hoglah Milcah Tirzah Zelophehad
  • “And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, The 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.”
• God commands Zelophehad’s daughters to marry within their father’s tribe.(Numbers 36)
  • With: God Tirzah Hoglah Milcah Noah
  • “This 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.”
• Zelophehad’s daughters marry their cousins, keeping their inheritance within Manasseh.(Numbers 36)
  • With: Tirzah Hoglah Milcah Noah
  • “For Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married unto their father’s brothers’ sons: And they were married into the families of the sons of Manasseh the son of Joseph, and their inheritance remained in the tribe of the family of their father.”

Numbers 26

• parent: Zelophehad “and the names of the daughters of Zelophehad were Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.”

Numbers 27

• with Moses (Moses presented Mahlah's case before God.) “And Moses brought their cause before the LORD.”

Numbers 36

• siblings with Tirzah “For Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married unto their father’s brothers’ sons”
• siblings with Hoglah “For Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married unto their father’s brothers’ sons”
• siblings with Milcah “For Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married unto their father’s brothers’ sons”
• siblings with Noah “For Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married unto their father’s brothers’ sons”
• commander: God “This 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.”

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Extracted from the original text of The Five Books of Moses. Made with Rho MD.