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- proper noun A male
given name .
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Zelophehad is having 5,000 friends over for wine and open-faced fish sandwiches.
Carolyn Bucior: Teacher Absences: What Would Jesus Say? Carolyn Bucior 2011
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Zelophehad is having 5,000 friends over for wine and open-faced fish sandwiches.
Carolyn Bucior: Teacher Absences: What Would Jesus Say? Carolyn Bucior 2011
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Zelophehad is having 5,000 friends over for wine and open-faced fish sandwiches.
Carolyn Bucior: Teacher Absences: What Would Jesus Say? Carolyn Bucior 2011
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Zelophehad is having 5,000 friends over for wine and open-faced fish sandwiches.
Carolyn Bucior: Teacher Absences: What Would Jesus Say? Carolyn Bucior 2011
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Early Muslim women knew this, just like our ancestral sisters - the courageous daughters of Zelophehad - knew too.
Qanta Ahmed, MD: Trapped in the Other Gulf Oil Slick -- Saudi Women Tell Mr. President: Set Us Free! 2010
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Some traditions maintain that the daughters of Zelophehad took three portions of the land holding: the portion of their father, who was among those who left Egypt; and two portions of their grandfather Hepher (who, as a firstborn, had received a double portion — M Bava Batra 8: 3).
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The Rabbis rain many praises on the daughters of Zelophehad: they are wise, exegetes and virtuous (BT Bava Batra 119b); they are like the daughters of kings, fine and worthy (Sifrei Zuta 15: 32).
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Usually, if a woman has not given birth by this age, she is no longer capable of bearing children, but, due to their righteousness, a miracle was performed for the daughters of Zelophehad, and they were blessed with children (BT Bava Batra 119b).
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The daughters of Zelophehad, who demonstrated their love of the land by requesting a portion, epitomized the constructive nature of the women of that generation who built up what the men had destroyed (Numbers Rabbah 21: 10).
Nature of Women. 2009
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Moses ordered the daughters of Zelophehad to take husbands from the tribe of Manasseh; the midrash relates that even the youngest of the sisters did not marry before the age of forty, because they waited to marry the husbands who were fit for them, from their own tribe.
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