Numbers 36:2

And they said ,.... One in the name of the rest:

the Lord commanded my lord ; that is, Moses, whom they address in a very respectable manner, being the chief governor of the nation under God:

to give the land for an inheritance by lot to the children of Israel ; which command may be seen, in Numbers 26:53 ,

and my lord was commanded by the Lord to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother ; or kinsman, being of the same tribe:

unto his daughters ; who sued for it, and upon Moses's consulting the Lord about it, it was ordered they should have it, Numbers 27:1 and which these princes observed was likely to be attended with the following inconvenience.