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Why did the heads of B'nei Gil'ad ben Machir not also approach Elazar - like the B'nei Gad and Reuven did in Matos, 32:2?
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Oznayim la'Torah: Because they hoped that Moshe and the princes would initiate a Takanah, prohibiting a daughter from inheriting a father - to prevent the inheritance of Tz'lofchad from falling into the hands of another tribe. And since his son Pinchas had married a woan from another tribe, 1 they figured that hewould be biased.
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As the Gemara states in Bava Basra, 111.
