Zelophehad
A man of the tribe of Manasseh who died in the wilderness leaving five daughters and no son. The daughters — Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah and Tirzah — came before Moses and the assembly to ask why their father's name should disappear for want of a son, and Moses brought their case before the Lord. The ruling was that they should inherit, and it became a statute in Israel: where there is no son, the inheritance passes to the daughters. A later ruling required them to marry within their own tribe so the land was not transferred away.
What we know — and how we know it
Where in scripture
NumbersJoshua1 ChroniclesZelophehad 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 26:33
Then 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 came near. These are the names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Tirzah.
Numbers 27:1 — His daughters seek inheritance
“The daughters of Zelophehad speak right. You shall surely give them a possession of an inheritance among their father’s brothers. You shall cause the inheritance of their father to pass to them.
Numbers 27:7
They said, “Yahweh commanded my lord to give the land for inheritance by lot to the children of Israel. My lord was commanded by Yahweh to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother to his daughters.
Numbers 36:2
This is the thing which Yahweh does command concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, ‘Let them be married to whom they think best; only they shall marry into the family of the tribe of their father.
Numbers 36:6
The daughters of Zelophehad did as Yahweh commanded Moses:
Numbers 36:10
for Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married to their father’s brothers’ sons.
Numbers 36:11
But Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, had no sons, but daughters. These are the names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.
Joshua 17:3
Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible, a public-domain translation.