Bava Batra 116b (קטז:) — the Talmud in English

And the Gemara explains:

Rami bar Ḥama

due to his sharpness

because of his acumen, as he was preoccupied with another question, as follows]

did not examine it.

Additionally,

Rami bar Ḥama asked: The father’s father and his brother, for example, Abraham and Jacob,

who come to inherit

the property of

Esau—which of them takes precedence?

Rava said: Come and hear: “The father takes precedence over all those who emerge from his loins,”

and if so, Abraham takes precedence over Jacob.

And Rami bar Ḥama,

who was uncertain about this matter, reasoned that perhaps the father takes precedence only over

those who emerge from his own loins, but not over those who emerge from his son’s loins.

And

here too, it is reasonable

that Jacob takes precedence over Abraham with regard to Esau’s property.

As it teaches: “This is the general rule: Whoever takes precedence in inheritance,

and is absent, such as Isaac, who would have taken precedence over Abraham had he been alive,

those who emerge from his loins take precedence,”

and

since

if Isaac were present, Isaac would take precedence, now too, when Isaac is absent, Jacob takes precedence.

And the Gemara’s conclusion is: Indeed,

conclude from it.

Mishna:

Since we learned in the previous Mishna that “whoever takes precedence in inheritance, those who emerge from his loins take precedence,” and thus a son’s daughter inherits where there are sons, we learn this Mishna, for the daughters of Zelophehad inherited their father’s portion in the property of Hepher, his father, in place of their father Zelophehad.

The daughters of Zelophehad received three

portions in the inheritance,

in the Land of Israel:

their father’s portion, as he was among those who left Egypt,

and this tanna held: “The Land was apportioned to those who left Egypt” ; and although they all died in the wilderness, nevertheless, when the Land was apportioned, it was apportioned according to the names of those who left Egypt. If one of them had had one son, and another had had ten sons, the one would receive a portion corresponding to the ten sons of his fellow. This will be explained further in the Gemara.

And

likewise,

they shared with the brothers

of Zelophehad

in Hepher’s property,

as he too had left Egypt and had a portion in the Land. The daughters of Zelophehad received their father’s portion that he had in his father’s property. As we said above: “Whoever takes precedence in inheritance, those who emerge from his loins take precedence.”

And

likewise, since

Zelophehad was

Zelophehad

a firstborn,

and had he been alive, he would have

received two portions

in Hepher’s property, his daughters inherited his right to inherit these portions.