Commentary for Bava Batra 237:7

וראויה היתה פרשת נחלות ליכתב על ידי משה אלא שזכו בנות צלפחד ונכתבה על ידן

[Surely the estates of Hepher] were [only] prospective,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' When he died the estates were only due to become his, but could not pass into his possession before Canaan was actually entered. ');">¹⁰</span> and a firstborn son is not [entitled] to take [a double share] in the prospective [property of his father] as in that which is in [his father's] possession [at the time of death]! — Rab Judah said in the name of Samuel: [The double share was] in tent pins.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., in their grandfather's movable property, which, like the tent pins, was in his possession before he entered Canaan and while still in the wilderness. Of his landed property, how-ever, the daughters of Zelophehad did not take a double share, Our Mishnah which mentions three shares refers to the landed as well as the movable property. ');">¹¹</span>

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