Then the daughters of Tzelofchad son of Chefer son of Gilad son of Machir son of Menasheh, of the families of Menasheh son of Yosef, drew near; and these are the names of his daughters: Machlah, No’ah, and Choglah, and Milkah, and Tirtzah.
English: Here He listed them by the order of their wisdom, and later [in Massei] by the order of their age; and as R. Ammi said: in the study hall one follows wisdom; at a meal one follows age.
Type of Learning
Order of names as a teaching device.
What Is Learned
The two listings encode both their scholarly standing and their relative ages.