פּירוש אויף במדבר 27:7

כן בנות צלפחד דברת THE DAUGHTERS OF ZELOPHEHAD SPEAK RIGHT — Understand the word כן as the Targum does: יאות rightly, properly. God said: Exactly so is this chapter written before me on High (The Law has long since been fixed) (Sifrei Bamidbar 134:1). This tells us that their eye saw what Moses’ eye did not see. (They had a finer perception of what was just in the law of inheritance than Moses had.) (cf. Midrash Tanchuma, Pinchas 8).

“You shall surely give them [etc.].” It should have said “lahen” [to them — feminine], and similarly [instead of] among their father’s brothers [the Hebrew] should have said “avihen” [their father — feminine], as it says shortly afterwards and you shall transfer their father’s inheritance to them [feminine]. This is because in matters of inheritance, if he has no son, they stand in place of males for all matters. Therefore it says You shall surely give them [masculine] as if speaking to males, to indicate that they are like males for all matters of inheritance. But afterwards, when it says and you shall transfer, which suggests a language of transgression, or a language of transferring inheritance from tribe to tribe due to them being females, therefore it speaks as if to females: and you shall transfer their father’s inheritance to them [feminine].

כן בנות צלפחד דברות, the daughters of Tzelofchod are correct in what they said. The Torah needed to write the word כן in addition to handing down the legal decision. By writing the extra word כן, G'd expressed appreciation of the logic demonstrated by the daughters of Tzelofchod when they had presented their case by basing it on either the law of inheritance or the law of the levirate marriage.

כן בנות צלפחד דברת — “They have made a fair claim”. Happy is the person with whose words the Holy One, blessed be He, agrees (Sifrei Bamidbar 134:1).