Numbers 27:4

KJV1611 – Modern English

Why should the name of our father be removed from his family because he has no son? Give us, therefore, a possession among the brothers of our father.

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  • Josh 17:4 : 4 They approached Eleazar the priest, Joshua the son of Nun, and the leaders, saying, "The LORD commanded Moses to give us an inheritance among our brothers." Therefore, according to the commandment of the LORD, he gave them an inheritance among their father's brothers.
  • Ps 109:13 : 13 Let his posterity be cut off; in the following generation let their name be blotted out.
  • Prov 13:9 : 9 The light of the righteous rejoices, but the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.
  • Exod 32:11 : 11 Moses entreated the LORD his God, and said, "LORD, why does Your wrath burn hot against Your people, whom You have brought forth from the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Josh 17:4
    80%

    4They approached Eleazar the priest, Joshua the son of Nun, and the leaders, saying, "The LORD commanded Moses to give us an inheritance among our brothers." Therefore, according to the commandment of the LORD, he gave them an inheritance among their father's brothers.

  • Num 27:1-3
    3 verses
    80%

    1Then came 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: and these are the names of his daughters; Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.

    2And they stood before Moses, and before Eleazar the priest, and before the leaders and all the congregation, by the entrance of the tent of meeting, saying,

    3Our father died in the wilderness, and he was not among the company of those who gathered together against the LORD in the company of Korah; but died in his own sin, and had no sons.

  • Num 27:5-11
    7 verses
    78%

    5And Moses brought their case before the LORD.

    6And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

    7The daughters of Zelophehad speak rightly: you shall surely give them a possession of an inheritance among their father's brothers; and you shall cause the inheritance of their father to pass to them.

    8And you shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, If a man dies and has no son, then you shall cause his inheritance to pass to his daughter.

    9And if he has no daughter, then you shall give his inheritance to his brothers.

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

    11And if his father has no brothers, then you shall give his inheritance to his nearest kinsman from his family, and he shall possess it: and it shall be a statute of judgment to the children of Israel, as the LORD commanded Moses.

  • Num 36:1-4
    4 verses
    74%

    1And the chief fathers 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 near and spoke before Moses and before the leaders, the chief fathers of the children of Israel:

    2And they said, The LORD commanded my lord to give the land for an inheritance by lot to the children of Israel, and my lord was commanded by the LORD to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother to his daughters.

    3And if they are married to any of the sons of the other tribes of the children of Israel, then their inheritance will be taken from the inheritance of our fathers and will be added to the inheritance of the tribe into which they are received; thus it will be taken from the lot of our inheritance.

    4And when the jubilee of the children of Israel shall be, then their inheritance will be added to the inheritance of the tribe into which they are received; so their inheritance will be taken away from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers.

  • Gen 31:14
    72%

    14And Rachel and Leah answered and said to him, Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father's house?

  • Deut 25:6
    72%

    6And it shall be, that the firstborn which she bears shall succeed in the name of his brother who is dead, that his name may not be put out of Israel.

  • Gen 31:16
    72%

    16For all the riches which God has taken from our father, that is ours, and our children's: now then, whatever God has said to you, do.

  • Num 32:18-19
    2 verses
    71%

    18We will not return to our houses until every man among the children of Israel has received his inheritance.

    19For we will not inherit with them on the other side of the Jordan or beyond, because our inheritance has come to us on this side of the Jordan eastward.

  • Num 36:7-10
    4 verses
    71%

    7So the inheritance of the children of Israel shall not transfer from tribe to tribe; for each of the children of Israel shall keep to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.

    8And every daughter that possesses an inheritance in any tribe of the children of Israel shall marry one of the family of the tribe of her father, so that each of the children of Israel may enjoy the inheritance of his fathers.

    9Thus the inheritance shall not transfer from one tribe to another tribe; but each tribe of the children of Israel shall keep to its own inheritance.

    10As the LORD commanded Moses, so did the daughters of Zelophehad:

  • Deut 18:2
    70%

    2Therefore, they shall have no inheritance among their brethren: the LORD is their inheritance, as He has said to them.

  • Judg 21:17
    70%

    17And they said, There must be an inheritance for those who escaped from Benjamin, that a tribe not be destroyed out of Israel.

  • Josh 17:14
    70%

    14The children of Joseph spoke to Joshua, saying, "Why have you given us only one lot and one portion to inherit, seeing we are a great people since the LORD has blessed us so far?"

  • Num 32:5
    70%

    5Therefore, they said, if we have found favor in your sight, let this land be given to your servants as a possession, and do not bring us over the Jordan.

  • Num 14:3
    70%

    3Why has the LORD brought us to this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be prey? Would it not be better for us to return to Egypt?

  • Josh 22:27
    70%

    27But that it may be a witness between us, and you, and our generations after us, that we might do the service of the LORD before Him with our burnt offerings, with our sacrifices, and with our peace offerings; that your children may not say to our children in time to come, You have no part in the LORD.

  • Matt 22:25
    70%

    25Now there were with us seven brothers. The first married and died, and having no offspring, left his wife to his brother.

  • Num 32:32
    70%

    32We will pass over armed before the LORD into the land of Canaan, that the possession of our inheritance on this side of the Jordan may be ours.

  • Josh 2:13
    69%

    13And that you will save my father, and my mother, and my brothers, and my sisters, and all that they have, and deliver our lives from death.

  • Josh 14:3-4
    2 verses
    69%

    3For Moses had given the inheritance of two tribes and a half-tribe on the other side of the Jordan, but to the Levites he gave no inheritance among them.

    4For the children of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim; therefore they gave no part to the Levites in the land, except cities to live in, with their pasture lands for their cattle and for their possessions.

  • Judg 21:7
    69%

    7What shall we do for wives for those who remain, seeing we have sworn by the LORD that we will not give them our daughters as wives?

  • Gen 44:19-20
    2 verses
    69%

    19My lord asked his servants, saying, Do you have a father or a brother?

    20And we said to my lord, We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loves him.

  • Deut 10:9
    69%

    9Therefore Levi has no part nor inheritance with his brothers; the LORD is his inheritance, just as the LORD your God promised him.

  • Judg 21:22
    69%

    22And it shall be, when their fathers or their brothers come to us to complain, that we will say to them, Be kind to them for our sakes, because we did not reserve each man his wife in the war; for you did not give them to them at this time, so you would not be guilty.

  • Josh 17:6
    69%

    6because the daughters of Manasseh received an inheritance among his sons, and the rest of Manasseh's sons had the land of Gilead.

  • 2 Chr 20:11
    68%

    11See, how they repay us, to come to cast us out of Your possession, which You have given us to inherit.

  • Gen 47:19
    68%

    19Why shall we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants to Pharaoh: and give us seed, that we may live, and not die, that the land be not desolate.

  • Num 20:4
    68%

    4And why have you brought the congregation of the LORD into this wilderness so that we and our livestock should die here?

  • Deut 33:4
    68%

    4Moses commanded us a law, even the inheritance of the congregation of Jacob.

  • Josh 13:15
    68%

    15And Moses gave to the tribe of the children of Reuben inheritance according to their families.

  • Gen 44:22
    68%

    22And we said to my lord, The lad cannot leave his father: for if he should leave his father, his father would die.

  • 2 Sam 14:7
    68%

    7And, behold, the whole family has risen against your maidservant, and they said, Deliver him who struck his brother, that we may kill him, for the life of his brother whom he slew; and we will destroy the heir also: and so they shall extinguish my last remaining ember, and shall not leave to my husband either name or remnant on the earth.

  • Num 26:53
    68%

    53Unto these the land shall be divided for an inheritance according to the number of names.

  • Lev 21:2
    68%

    2But for his relative who is near to him, that is, for his mother, and for his father, and for his son, and for his daughter, and for his brother,