Numbers 27:4
Why should the name of our father be lost from among his family because he had no son? Give us a possession among the relatives of our father.”
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Referenced Verses
- Josh 17:4 : 4 They went before Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the leaders and said,“The LORD told Moses to assign us land among our relatives.” So Joshua assigned them land among their uncles, as the LORD had commanded.
- Ps 109:13 : 13 May his descendants be cut off! May the memory of them be wiped out by the time the next generation arrives!
- Prov 13:9 : 9 The light of the righteous shines brightly, but the lamp of the wicked goes out.
- Exod 32:11 : 11 But Moses sought the favor of the LORD his God and said,“O LORD, why does your anger burn against your people, whom you have brought out from the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?
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4 They went before Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the leaders and said,“The LORD told Moses to assign us land among our relatives.” So Joshua assigned them land among their uncles, as the LORD had commanded.
- Num 27:1-33 verses80%
1 Special Inheritance Laws Then the daughters of Zelophehad 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. Now these are the names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.
2 And they stood before Moses and Eleazar the priest and the leaders of the whole assembly at the entrance to the tent of meeting and said,
3 “Our father died in the wilderness, although he was not part of the company of those that gathered themselves together against the LORD in the company of Korah, but he died for his own sin, and he had no sons.
- Num 27:5-117 verses78%
5 So Moses brought their case before the LORD.
6 The LORD said to Moses:
7 “The daughters of Zelophehad have a valid claim. You must indeed give them possession of an inheritance among their father’s relatives, and you must transfer the inheritance of their father to them.
8 And you must tell the Israelites,‘If a man dies and has no son, then you must transfer his inheritance to his daughter;
9 and if he has no daughter, then you are to give his inheritance to his brothers;
10 and if he has no brothers, then you are to give his inheritance to his father’s brothers;
11 and if his father has no brothers, then you are to give his inheritance to his relative nearest to him from his family, and he will possess it. This will be for the Israelites a legal requirement, as the LORD commanded Moses.’”
- Num 36:1-44 verses74%
1 Women and Land Inheritance Then the heads of the family groups of the Gileadites, the descendant of Machir, the descendant of Manasseh, who were from the Josephite families, approached and spoke before Moses and the leaders who were the heads of the Israelite families.
2 They said,“The LORD commanded my lord to give the land as an inheritance by lot to the Israelites; and my lord was commanded by the LORD to give the inheritance of our brother Zelophehad to his daughters.
3 Now if they should be married to one of the men from another Israelite tribe, their inheritance would be taken from the inheritance of our fathers and added to the inheritance of the tribe into which they marry. As a result, it will be taken from the lot of our inheritance.
4 And when the Jubilee of the Israelites is to take place, their inheritance will be added to the inheritance of the tribe into which they marry. So their inheritance will be taken away from the inheritance of our ancestral tribe.”
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14 Then Rachel and Leah replied to him,“Do we still have any portion or inheritance in our father’s house?
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6 Then the first son she bears will continue the name of the dead brother, thus preventing his name from being blotted out of Israel.
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16 Surely all the wealth that God snatched away from our father belongs to us and to our children. So now do everything God has told you.”
- Num 32:18-192 verses71%
18 We will not return to our homes until every Israelite has his inheritance.
19 For we will not accept any inheritance on the other side of the Jordan River and beyond, because our inheritance has come to us on this eastern side of the Jordan.”
- Num 36:7-104 verses71%
7 In this way the inheritance of the Israelites will not be transferred from tribe to tribe. But every one of the Israelites must retain the ancestral heritage.
8 And every daughter who possesses an inheritance from any of the tribes of the Israelites must become the wife of a man from any family in her father’s tribe, so that every Israelite may retain the inheritance of his fathers.
9 No inheritance may pass from tribe to tribe. But every one of the tribes of the Israelites must retain its inheritance.”
10 As the LORD had commanded Moses, so the daughters of Zelophehad did.
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2 They will have no inheritance in the midst of their fellow Israelites; the LORD alone is their inheritance, just as he had told them.
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17 The remnant of Benjamin must be preserved. An entire Israelite tribe should not be wiped out.
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14 The descendants of Joseph said to Joshua,“Why have you assigned us only one tribal allotment? After all, we have many people, for until now the LORD has enabled us to increase in number.”
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5 So they said,“If we have found favor in your sight, let this land be given to your servants for our inheritance. Do not have us cross the Jordan River.”
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3 Why has the LORD brought us into this land only to be killed by the sword, that our wives and our children should become plunder? Wouldn’t it be better for us to return to Egypt?”
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27 but as a reminder to us and you, and to our descendants who follow us, that we will honor the LORD in his very presence with burnt offerings, sacrifices, and tokens of peace. Then in the future your descendants will not be able to say to our descendants,‘You have no right to worship the LORD.’
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25 Now there were seven brothers among us. The first one married and died, and since he had no children he left his wife to his brother.
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32 We will cross armed in the LORD’s presence into the land of Canaan, and then the possession of our inheritance that we inherit will be ours on this side of the Jordan River.”
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13 that you will spare the lives of my father, mother, brothers, sisters, and all who belong to them, and rescue us from death.”
- Josh 14:3-42 verses69%
3 Now Moses had assigned land to the two and a half tribes east of the Jordan, but he assigned no land to the Levites.
4 The descendants of Joseph were considered as two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim. The Levites were allotted no territory, though they were assigned cities in which to live, along with the grazing areas for their cattle and possessions.
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7 How can we find wives for those who are left? After all, we took an oath in the LORD’s name not to give them our daughters as wives.”
- Gen 44:19-202 verses69%
19 My lord asked his servants,‘Do you have a father or a brother?’
20 We said to my lord,‘We have an aged father, and there is a young boy who was born when our father was old. The boy’s brother is dead. He is the only one of his mother’s sons left, and his father loves him.’
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9 Therefore Levi has no allotment or inheritance among his brothers; the LORD is his inheritance just as the LORD your God told him.
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22 When their fathers or brothers come and protest to us, we’ll say to them,“Do us a favor and let them be, for we could not get each one a wife through battle. Don’t worry about breaking your oath! You would only be guilty if you had voluntarily given them wives.’”
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6 for the daughters of Manasseh were assigned land among his sons. The land of Gilead belonged to the rest of the descendants of Manasseh.
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11 Look how they are repaying us! They come to drive us out of our allotted land which you assigned to us!
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19 Why should we die before your very eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land in exchange for food, and we, with our land, will become Pharaoh’s slaves. Give us seed that we may live and not die. Then the land will not become desolate.”
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4 Why have you brought up the LORD’s community into this wilderness? So that we and our cattle should die here?
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4 Moses delivered to us a law, an inheritance for the assembly of Jacob.
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15 Moses assigned land to the tribe of Reuben by its clans.
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22 We said to my lord,‘The boy cannot leave his father. If he leaves his father, his father will die.’
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7 Now the entire family has risen up against your servant, saying,‘Turn over the one who struck down his brother, so that we can execute him and avenge the death of his brother whom he killed. In so doing we will also destroy the heir.’ They want to extinguish my remaining coal, leaving no one on the face of the earth to carry on the name of my husband.”
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53 “To these the land must be divided as an inheritance according to the number of the names.
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2 except for his close relative who is near to him: his mother, his father, his son, his daughter, his brother,