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Numbers 27:8

in Numbers 27

Furthermore, you shall say to the Israelites, ‘If a man dies and leaves no son, you are to transfer his inheritance to his daughter.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a man die, and have no son, then ye shall cause his inheritance to pass unto his daughter.

KJV

And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a man die, and have no son, then ye shall cause his inheritance to pass unto his daughter.

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This verse in Numbers 27

Commentary

3 notes on this verse
And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel,.... The above affair occasioned a law to be made, in which all the people would have a concern, among whom such cases should happen, as after related: saying, if a man die, and have no son, then ye shall cause his inheritance to pass unto his daughter; as in the above case of the daughters of Zelophehad; what was determined as to their particular case was made into a general law.

This site's exposition

The daughters of Zelophehad speak right

on Numbers 27:7-8

The ruling goes further than the request. They asked for their father's portion, and verse 8 turns the particular case into a standing law for every man in Israel who dies leaving no son. Gill notes that what was determined in their case was made into a general law, so a petition brought by five women without an advocate becomes the inheritance rule of the nation. The same verdict of having spoken right is given to the tribe of Joseph at Numbers 36:5, when they come to object to this very ruling.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

Those that in such a case deprive their daughters of their right, purely to keep up the name of their family, unless a valuable consideration be allowed them, may make the entail of their lands surer than the entail of a blessing with them. Further directions are given for the disposal of inheritances,

The words behind it

15 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וְאֶל־and to

    veel-H413 →5510 times

  • בְּנֵ֥י[the] people of

    beneiH1121 →4930 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵ֖לIsrael

    yisraelH3478 →2507 times

  • תְּדַבֵּ֣רyou will speak

    tedaberH1696 →1141 times

  • לֵאמֹ֑ר<to> saying

    lemorH559 →5305 times

  • אִ֣ישׁa man

    ʾishH376 →1663 times

  • כִּֽי־if

    ki-H3588 →4482 times

  • יָמ֗וּתhe will die

    yamutH4191 →839 times

  • וּבֵן֙and a son

    uvenH1121 →4930 times

  • אֵ֣יןnot

    ʾeinH369 →789 times

  • ל֔וֹ[belongs] to <the> him

    lo

  • וְהַֽעֲבַרְתֶּ֥םand you will make pass over

    vehaavartemH5674 →556 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • נַחֲלָת֖וֹinheritance his

    nachalatoH5159 →222 times

  • לְבִתּֽוֹ׃to daughter his

    levitoH1323 →588 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Where this verse is studied

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About Numbers

The Bronze Serpent, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
The Bronze Serpent, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Numbers: the study guide →Read Numbers 27 →

This page draws on John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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