Another interpretation (of Numb. 27:7): YOU SHALL INDEED GRANT THEM POSSESSION OF AN INHERITANCE AMONG THE BROTHERS OF THEIR FATHER. When they received their share on the other side of the Jordan, they came before Joshua and Eleazar in the land of Canaan, as stated (in Josh. 17:4): NOW THEY (i.e., the daughters of Zelophehad) CAME BEFORE ELEAZAR THE PRIEST, JOSHUA BEN NUN, AND THE PRINCES AND SAID: THE LORD COMMANDED MOSES TO GIVE US AN INHERITANCE ALONG WITH OUR MALE KIN. Moreover, our ancestor Jacob also knew that they were receiving an inheritance on this side of the Jordan as well as on that side, since it is stated (in Gen. 49:22): DAUGHTERS³⁶ STEP OVER A WALL. This wall is the Jordan, which became a wall for Moses so that he would not enter the land. Thus [Jacob] said to [Joseph]: Your daughters shall receive a share on this side of the Jordan as well as on that side.

footnotes: ³⁶ English versions generally read “boughs” or the like.

(Numb. 27:7:) THE DAUGHTERS OF ZELOPHEHAD SPEAK WHAT IS RIGHT. YOU SHALL INDEED GRANT THEM POSSESSION OF AN INHERITANCE AMONG THE BROTHERS OF THEIR FATHER, AND YOU SHALL TRANSFER TO THEM THE INHERITANCE OF THEIR FATHER. With reference to normal inheritance it is stated (in vs. 9): AND YOU SHALL GIVE HIS INHERITANCE TO HIS BROTHERS, but with reference to a daughter it says (in vs. 8): AND YOU SHALL TRANSFER.³⁷ Thus she may TRANSFER an inheritance from tribe to tribe.³⁸ 109b.

footnotes: ³⁷ The Hebrew is slightly different here from what is written in vs. 7. There the word you is singular while here the you is plural, as in vs. 8. ³⁸ So BB

(Numb. 27:11:) AND IT SHALL BE A STATUTARY JUDGMENT FOR THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL. The word JUDGMENT teachs that inheritances can only be carried out through judges.

(Numb. 27:12:) THEN THE LORD {SPOKE} [SAID] UNTO MOSES, SAYING: GO UP ON THIS MOUNTAIN OF ABARIM…. What reason did he have for it to be written after the parashah on inheritance?³⁹., Numb. 8:10, cont.; Numb. R. 21:10. It was simply that when Moses heard from the mouth of the Holy One (in Numb. 27:7): YOU SHALL INDEED GRANT THEM, he thought that the Holy One had been reconciled to him.⁴⁰ He said: Here I am allotting inheritances for Israel. Then the Holy One said to him: My decree remains in place. (Numb. 27:12–13:) GO UP INTO THE MOUNTAIN OF ABARIM AND SEE THE LAND THAT I HAVE GIVEN TO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL. WHEN YOU HAVE SEEN IT, YOU ALSO SHALL BE GATHERED UNTO YOUR PEOPLE, JUST AS YOUR BROTHER AARON WAS SO GATHERED. You are no better than your brother.

footnotes: ³⁹ Tanh ⁴⁰ Numb. R. 21:13.