Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, Tirzah

[zeborah]

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. The sisters Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah and Tirzah (Joshua 17:3-6) aren't waiting around in hopes of finding five such men, however. Their father doesn't have any sons, and so when Joshua is parcelling out among the Israelite tribes the land which they have rightfully stolen, the five sisters front up to him for a share in their own right alongside their uncles. They say that God told Moses to give it to them, and Joshua figures he'd best not gainsay authority like that: so they get their inheritance.