Numbers 27:4

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Why 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.

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Referenced Verses

  • Josh 17:4 : 4 And 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.
  • Ps 109:13 : 13 Let his seed be cut off; in the coming generation let their name go out of memory.
  • Prov 13:9 : 9 There is a glad dawn for the upright man, but the light of the sinner will be put out.
  • Exod 32:11 : 11 But Moses made prayer to God, saying, Lord, why is your wrath burning against your people whom you took out of the land of Egypt, with great power and with the strength of your hand?

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  • Josh 17:4
    80%

    4 And 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 27:1-3
    3 verses
    80%

    1 Then the daughters of Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of Manasseh, the son of Joseph, came forward: their names are Mahlah, Noah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Tirzah.

    2 They came before Moses and Eleazar the priest and the chiefs and all the people at the door of the Tent of meeting, and said,

    3 Death overtook our father in the waste land; he was not among those who were banded together with Korah against the Lord; but death came to him in his sin; and he had no sons.

  • Num 27:5-11
    7 verses
    78%

    5 So Moses put their cause before the Lord.

    6 And the Lord said to Moses,

    7 What 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.

    8 And 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.

    9 And if he has no daughter, then give his heritage to his brothers.

    10 And if he has no brothers, then give his heritage to his father's brothers.

    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.

  • Num 36:1-4
    4 verses
    74%

    1 Now the heads of the families of the children of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of the sons of Joseph, came to Moses, the chiefs and the heads of families of the children of Israel being present,

    2 And 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.

    3 Now 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.

    4 And 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.

  • Gen 31:14
    72%

    14 Then Rachel and Leah said to him in answer, What part or heritage is there for us in our father's house?

  • Deut 25:6
    72%

    6 Then 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.

  • Gen 31:16
    72%

    16 For the wealth which God has taken from him is ours and our children's; so now, whatever God has said to you, do.

  • Num 32:18-19
    2 verses
    71%

    18 We will not come back to our houses till every one of the children of Israel has come into his heritage.

    19 For we will not have our heritage with them on the other side of Jordan and forward; because our heritage has come to us on this side of Jordan to the east.

  • Num 36:7-10
    4 verses
    71%

    7 And 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.

    8 And 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.

    9 And no property will be handed from one tribe to another, but every tribe of the children of Israel will keep its heritage.

    10 So the daughters of Zelophehad did as the Lord gave orders to Moses:

  • Deut 18:2
    70%

    2 And they will have no heritage among their countrymen: the Lord is their heritage, as he has said to them.

  • Judg 21:17
    70%

    17 And they said, How is the rest of Benjamin to be given offspring so that one tribe of Israel may not be put out of existence,

  • Josh 17:14
    70%

    14 Then the children of Joseph said to Joshua, Why have you given me only one part and one stretch of land for my heritage? For through the blessing given to me by the Lord up to now, I am a great people.

  • Num 32:5
    70%

    5 And they said, With your approval, let this land be given to your servants as their heritage: do not take us over Jordan.

  • Num 14:3
    70%

    3 Why is the Lord taking us into this land to come to our death by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will get into strange hands: would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt?

  • Josh 22:27
    70%

    27 But to be a witness between us and you, and between the future generations, that we have the right of worshipping the Lord with our burned offerings and our offerings of beasts and our peace-offerings; so that your children will not be able to say to our children in time to come, You have no part in the Lord.

  • Matt 22:25
    70%

    25 Now there were among us seven brothers; and the first was married and at his death, having no seed, gave his wife to his brother;

  • Num 32:32
    70%

    32 We will go over armed before the Lord into the land of Canaan, and you will give us our heritage on this side of Jordan.

  • Josh 2:13
    69%

    13 And that you will keep safe my father and mother and my brothers and sisters and all they have, so that death may not come on us?

  • Josh 14:3-4
    2 verses
    69%

    3 For 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.

    4 Because the children of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim; and they gave the Levites no part in the land, only towns for their living-places, with the grass-lands for their cattle and for their property.

  • Judg 21:7
    69%

    7 What are we to do about wives for those who are still living? For we have taken an oath by the Lord that we will not give them our daughters for wives.

  • Gen 44:19-20
    2 verses
    69%

    19 My lord said to his servants, Have you a father or a brother?

    20 And we said to my lord, We have an old father and a young child, whom he had when he was old; his brother is dead and he is the only son of his mother, and is very dear to his father.

  • Deut 10:9
    69%

    9 For 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.)

  • Judg 21:22
    69%

    22 And when their fathers or their brothers come and make trouble, you are to say to them, Give them to us as an act of grace; for we did not take them as wives for ourselves in war; and if you yourselves had given them to us you would have been responsible for the broken oath.

  • Josh 17:6
    69%

    6 Because the daughters of Manasseh had a heritage among his sons, and the land of Gilead was the property of the other sons of Manasseh.

  • 2 Chr 20:11
    68%

    11 See now, how as our reward they have come to send us out of your land which you have given us as our heritage.

  • Gen 47:19
    68%

    19 Are we to come to destruction before your eyes, we and our land? take us and our land and give us bread; and we and our land will be servants to Pharaoh; and give us seed so that we may have life and the land may not become waste.

  • Num 20:4
    68%

    4 Why have you taken the Lord's people into this waste, for death to come to us and to our cattle there?

  • Deut 33:4
    68%

    4 Moses gave us a law, a heritage for the people of Jacob.

  • Josh 13:15
    68%

    15 And Moses gave their heritage to the tribe of Reuben by their families.

  • Gen 44:22
    68%

    22 And we said to my lord, His father will not let him go; for if he went away his father would come to his death.

  • 2 Sam 14:7
    68%

    7 And now all the family is turned against me, your servant, saying, Give up him who was the cause of his brother's death, so that we may put him to death in payment for the life of his brother, whose life he took; and we will put an end to the one who will get the heritage: so they will put out my last burning coal, and my husband will have no name or offspring on the face of the earth.

  • Num 26:53
    68%

    53 Let there be a division of the land among these, for their heritage, in relation to the number of names.

  • Lev 21:2
    68%

    2 But only for his near relations, for his mother or his father, his son or his daughter, and his brother;