Person

Milcah

Gender:
Female
Verse mentions:
4
Title:
Milcah (daughter of Zelophehad)

Milcah was one of five daughters of Zelophehad, a man who died in the wilderness leaving no sons. She and her sisters successfully petitioned Moses for the right to inherit their father's property, establishing a precedent for female inheritance in Israel (Numbers 27:1-7; 36:1-12).

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Reference Verse
Numbers 26:33 And 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.
Numbers 27:1 Then 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.
Numbers 36:11 For Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married unto their father’s brothers’ sons:
Joshua 17:3 But 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.

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