And Machir took to wife [the sister] of Huppim and Shuppim, whose sister's name [was] Maachah;) and the name of the second [was] Zelophehad: and Zelophehad had daughters.
Ver. 15. And Zelophehad had daughters,] i.e., Daughters only, whose case, brought before the Lord, occasioned those two judicial laws in Numbers 27:1,11; Numbers 36:2,12 .