“If there are no kin to her, she shall have all the property and marry whom she will of the tribe.
“If no one of the tribe will marry her, her guardians shall ask throughout the tribe, ‘ Will any marry her?’ And if any one then marries her, he shall do it in thirty days after the ‘asking.’ But if there is still no one, she shall marry any one else she can.”
Such pains were taken to find a representative [pg 027] for the deceased in his family, or at any rate in his tribe.[64]
and amongst the Israelites.
The same questions seem to have arisen amongst the Israelites in the time of Moses.
Numbers xxxvi. 8. “And every daughter that possesseth an inheritance (LXX. ἀγχιστεύουσα κληρονομίαν) in any tribe of the children of Israel, shall be wife unto one of the family of the tribe of her father (ἐνὶ τῶν ἐκ τοῦ δήμου τοῦ πατρὸς αὐτῆς), that the children of Israel may enjoy (ἀγχιστεύειν) every man the inheritance of his fathers.
“Even as the Lord commanded Moses, so did the daughters of Zelophehad.
“For Mahlah, Tirzah and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married unto their father's brother's sons (LXX. τοῖς ἀνεψιοῖς αὐτῶν).”