Zelophehad died leaving 5 daughters but no sons, so the daughters went to Moses to request their land rights as their father had not been involved with rebellions or things like that. God granted the request and laid this down as law from then on, but if a man had no children at all his inheritance would go to a brother. In the lack of a brother it would go to the next of kin. (It is interesting to observe initial women's rights emerging here in a patriarchal society)
The death of Moses was approaching so God appointed Joshua as his eventual successor, as Joshua had long been his assistant. Moses took Joshua before Eleazar the High Priest and before all the people and formally commissioned him legitimizing the imminent transference of power.
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