Numbers 27:7
Good News Translation
"What the daughters of Zelophehad request is right; give them property among their father's relatives. Let his inheritance pass on to them.

New Revised Standard Version
The daughters of Zelophehad are right in what they are saying; you shall indeed let them possess an inheritance among their father’s brothers and pass the inheritance of their father on to them.

Contemporary English Version
Zelophehad's daughters are right. They should each be given part of the land their father would have received.

New American Bible
The plea of Zelophehad’s daughters is just; you shall give them hereditary land among their father’s kindred and transfer their father’s heritage to them.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And to the children of Israel thou shalt speak these things:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And to the children of Israel thou shalt speak these things:

Context
The Daughters of Zelophehad
6The daughters of Salphaad demand a just thing: Give them a possession among their father's kindred, and let them succeed him in his inheritance. 7And to the children of Israel thou shalt speak these things:8When a man dieth without a son, his inheritance shall pass to his daughter.…
Cross References
Numbers 27:6
The daughters of Salphaad demand a just thing: Give them a possession among their father's kindred, and let them succeed him in his inheritance.

Numbers 27:8
When a man dieth without a son, his inheritance shall pass to his daughter.

Numbers 36:2
The Lord hath commanded thee, my lord, that thou shouldst divide the land by lot to the children of Israel, and that thou shouldst give to the daughters of Salphaad our brother the possession due to their father:

Numbers 36:6
And this is the law promulgated by the Lord touching the daughters of Salphaad: Let them marry to whom they will, only so that it be to men of their own tribe.

Joshua 17:4
And they came in the presence of Eleazar the priest and of Joshua the son of Nun, and of the princes, saying: The Lord commanded by the hand of Moses, that a possession should be given us in the midst of our brethren. And he gave them according to the commandment of the Lord a possession amongst the brethren of their father.

Numbers 27:6
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