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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

4 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 correctly

on Numbers 27:7-8

The ruling goes further than the request, making a standing law for every man who "dies and leaves no son". At Numbers 36:5 the same verdict, "speaks correctly", is given to the tribe of Joseph when it objects to this ruling.

This site's exposition

transfer his inheritance to his daughter

Albert Barnes notes that women in Israel had no distinct right of inheritance before this. A father could still pass land to a daughter, and her husband then married into her family. Matthew Henry reads the new law as giving the estate to all the daughters in equal shares.

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

About Numbers

The Brazen Serpent, Anthony van Dyck, 1618 to 1620. Public domain.
The Brazen Serpent, Anthony van Dyck, 1618 to 1620. Public domain.
Numbers: the study guide →Read Numbers 27 →

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and Matthew Henry, Complete Commentary.

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