The New Generation: Inheritance and Leadership 27:1–7: The census in chapter 26 prepares for the distribution of the land. The custom in ancient Israel was that land stayed with the tribe and was passed from father to son. The question now arises as to what happens when there are no sons but only daughters. The daughters of Zelophehad . . . belonged to the clans of Manasseh. The five of them—Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah and Tirzah—approach the community’s judicial body in an effort to inherit their father’s part of the land. They begin by reminding Moses, Eleazar, and the other leaders that their father did not participate in Korah’s rebellion, which sin would have forfeited the right of land. He rather died for his own sin—that is, he died in the wilderness as did the rest of that generat…