Numbers 27:11
And if his father has no brothers, then give it to his nearest relation in the family, as his heritage: this is to be a decision made by law for the children of Israel, as the Lord gave orders to Moses.
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- Num 35:29 : 29 These rules are to be your guide in judging through all your generations wherever you may be living.
- Ruth 4:3-6 : 3 Then he said to the near relation, Naomi, who has come back from the country of Moab, is offering for a price that bit of land which was our brother Elimelech's: 4 And it was in my mind to give you the chance of taking it, with the approval of those seated here and of the responsible men of my people. If you are ready to do what it is right for a relation to do, then do it: but if you will not do it, say so to me now; for there is no one who has the right to do it but you, and after you myself. And he said, I will do it. 5 Then Boaz said, On the day when you take this field, you will have to take with it Ruth, the Moabitess, the wife of the dead, so that you may keep the name of the dead living in his heritage. 6 And the near relation said, I am not able to do the relation's part, for fear of damaging the heritage I have: you may do it in my place, for I am not able to do it myself.
- Jer 32:8 : 8 So Hanamel, the son of my father's brother, came to me, as the Lord had said, to the place of the armed watchmen, and said to me, Give the price and get my property which is in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin: for you have the nearest relation's right to the heritage; so get it for yourself. Then it was clear to me that this was the word of the Lord.
- 1 Sam 30:25 : 25 And so he made it a rule and an order for Israel from that day till now.
- Lev 25:25 : 25 If your brother becomes poor, and has to give up some of his land for money, his nearest relation may come and get back that which his brother has given up.
- Lev 25:49 : 49 Or his father's brother, or the son of his father's brother, or any near relation; or if he gets money, he may make himself free.
Similar Verses (AI)
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- Num 27:4-107 verses91%
4Why is the name of our father to be taken away from among his family, because he had no son? Give us a heritage among our father's brothers.
5So Moses put their cause before the Lord.
6And the Lord said to Moses,
7What the daughters of Zelophehad say is right: certainly you are to give them a heritage among their father's brothers: and let the property which would have been their father's go to them.
8And say to the children of Israel, If a man has no son at the time of his death, let his heritage go to his daughter.
9And if he has no daughter, then give his heritage to his brothers.
10And if he has no brothers, then give his heritage to his father's brothers.
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4And they came before Eleazar the priest, and Joshua, the son of Nun, and before the chiefs, saying, The Lord gave orders to Moses to give us a heritage among our brothers: so in agreement with the orders of the Lord he gave them a heritage among their father's brothers.
- Num 36:2-54 verses76%
2And said, The Lord gave orders to my lord to make distribution of the land as their heritage to the children of Israel: and my lord was ordered by the Lord to give the heritage of Zelophehad, our brother, to his daughters.
3Now if they get married to any of the sons of other tribes of the children of Israel, then their property will be taken away from the heritage of our fathers, and become part of the heritage of the tribe into which they get married: and their heritage will be taken away from the heritage of our tribe.
4And at the time of the Jubilee of the children of Israel, their property will be joined to the heritage of the tribe of which they are part and will be taken away from the heritage of the tribe of our fathers.
5So by the direction of the Lord, Moses gave orders to the children of Israel, saying, What the tribe of the sons of Joseph have said is right.
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2And they will have no heritage among their countrymen: the Lord is their heritage, as he has said to them.
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54And you will take up your heritage in the land by the decision of the Lord, to every family its part; the greater the family the greater its heritage, and the smaller the family the smaller will be its heritage; wherever the decision of the Lord gives to any man his part, that will be his; distribution will be made to you by your fathers' tribes.
- Deut 25:5-62 verses74%
5If brothers are living together and one of them, at his death, has no son, the wife of the dead man is not to be married outside the family to another man: let her husband's brother go in to her and make her his wife, doing as it is right for a brother-in-law to do.
6Then the first male child she has will take the rights of the brother who is dead, so that his name may not come to an end in Israel.
- Num 36:7-93 verses74%
7And so no property will be handed from tribe to tribe among the children of Israel; but every one of the children of Israel will keep the heritage of his father's tribe.
8And every daughter owning property in any tribe of the children of Israel is to be married to one of the family of her father's tribe, so that every man of the children of Israel may keep the heritage of his fathers.
9And no property will be handed from one tribe to another, but every tribe of the children of Israel will keep its heritage.
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13And Moses gave orders to the children of Israel saying, This is the land which is to be your heritage, by the decision of the Lord, which by the Lord's order is to be given to the nine tribes and the half-tribe:
- Num 26:53-553 verses74%
53Let there be a division of the land among these, for their heritage, in relation to the number of names.
54To those families who are more in number, give a greater heritage; to those who are less in number, a smaller part: to every one let the heritage be given in relation to the number in his family.
55But let the distribution of the land be made by the decision of the Lord: by the names of the tribes of their fathers let their heritage be given them.
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3For Moses had given their heritage to the two tribes and the half-tribe on the other side of Jordan, but to the Levites he gave no heritage among them.
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8His food will be the same as theirs, in addition to what has come to him as the price of his property.
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9For this reason Levi has no part or heritage for himself among his brothers: the Lord is his heritage, as the Lord your God said to him.)
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2But only for his near relations, for his mother or his father, his son or his daughter, and his brother;
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12And the Lord said to Moses, Go up into this mountain of Abarim so that you may see the land which I have given to the children of Israel.
- Josh 13:32-332 verses73%
32These are the heritages of which Moses made distribution in the lowlands of Moab, on the other side of Jordan in Jericho, to the east.
33But to the tribe of Levi Moses gave no heritage: the Lord, the God of Israel, is their heritage, as he said to them.
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25If your brother becomes poor, and has to give up some of his land for money, his nearest relation may come and get back that which his brother has given up.
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9And the Lord said to Moses,
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41Then he will go out from you, he and his children with him, and go back to his family and to the property of his fathers.
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29And Moses gave their heritage to the half-tribe of Manasseh by their families.
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14And you are to make an equal division of it; as I gave my oath to your fathers to give it to you: for this land is to be your heritage.
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1And these are the heritages which the children of Israel took in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar, the priest, and Joshua, the son of Nun, and the heads of the tribes of the children of Israel, gave out to them;
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20And the Lord said to Aaron, You will have no heritage in their land, or any part among them; I am your part and your heritage among the children of Israel.
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11And when the Lord takes you into the land of Canaan, as he made his oath to you and to your fathers, and gives it to you,
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4Moses gave us a law, a heritage for the people of Jacob.
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2Give orders to the children of Israel and say to them, When you come into the land of Canaan; (this is the land which is to be your heritage, the land of Canaan inside these limits,)
- Ezek 47:22-232 verses72%
22And you are to make a distribution of it, by the decision of the Lord, for a heritage to you and to the men from other lands who are living among you and who have children in your land: they will be the same to you as if they were Israelites by birth, they will have their heritage with you among the tribes of Israel.
23In whatever tribe the man from a strange land is living, there you are to give him his heritage, says the Lord.
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15Till the Lord has given your brothers rest, as he has given it to you, and they have taken their heritage in the land which the Lord your God is giving them: then you will go back to the land of your heritage which Moses, the servant of the Lord, gave you on the east side of Jordan.
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17And if he gives a part of his heritage to one of his servants, it will be his till the year of making free, and then it will go back to the ruler; for it is his sons' heritage, and is to be theirs.
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11And the Lord said to Moses,
- Num 35:1-22 verses71%
1And the Lord said to Moses in the lowlands of Moab by Jordan at Jericho,
2Give orders to the children of Israel to give to the Levites, from the heritage which is theirs, towns for themselves, with land on the outskirts of the towns.
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24For the tenths which the children of Israel give as a lifted offering to the Lord I have given to the Levites as their heritage. and so I have said to them, Among the children of Israel they will have no heritage.
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15And Moses gave their heritage to the tribe of Reuben by their families.
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29These are they to whom the Lord gave orders to make the distribution of the heritage among the children of Israel in the land of Canaan.