The final chapter of Numbers in the Targum's version (Numbers 36) resolves a legal crisis that the daughters of Zelophehad had inadvertently created. The heads of the clan of Gilead, from the tribe of Manasseh, came before the beth din—the court—and pointed out a problem. If Zelophehad's daughters married men from other tribes, their inherited land would permanently transfer out of Manasseh's territory. Even the Jubilee year would not fix it—the land "will be added to that of their tribe in which they will be," and Manasseh's lot would shrink forever.
The Targum calls Moses's response a command issued "by the Word of the Lord"—divine authority, not personal judgment. And God affirmed: "The tribe of the sons of Joseph have said well." The solution was targeted. The Targum specifies this ruling was "not for the generations that shall arise after the division of the land, but for the daughters of Zelophehad" alone. It was case law, not universal legislation. Future generations would not be bound by this marital restriction.
The five sisters could marry anyone they wanted—"they may be the wives of them who are proper in their eyes"—with one condition: their husbands must belong to their father's tribe. Freedom of choice within a tribal boundary. Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Noah all married sons of their own kinsmen, and "their inheritance was with the tribe of their father's family."
The Book of Numbers ends with a formulaic closing that the Targum preserves faithfully: "These are the commandments and orders of judgments which the Lord commanded the children of Israel, by Moses, in the plains of Moab by the Jordan near Jericho." The legal architecture of the wilderness period was complete. The people stood at the edge of their inheritance, their laws settled, their borders drawn, their tribal lands assigned—waiting only to cross the river.