Numbers 27:4

Webster's Bible (1833)

Why should the name of our father be taken away from among his family, because he had no son? Give to us a possession among the brothers of our father.

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Referenced Verses

  • Josh 17:4 : 4 They came near before Eleazar the priest, and before Joshua the son of Nun, and before the princes, saying, Yahweh commanded Moses to give us an inheritance among our brothers: therefore according to the commandment of Yahweh he gave them an inheritance among the brothers of their father.
  • Ps 109:13 : 13 Let his posterity be cut off. In the generation following let their name be blotted out.
  • Prov 13:9 : 9 The light of the righteous shines brightly, But the lamp of the wicked is snuffed out.
  • Exod 32:11 : 11 Moses begged Yahweh his God, and said, "Yahweh, why does your wrath burn hot against your people, that you have brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?

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  • Josh 17:4
    80%

    4They came near before Eleazar the priest, and before Joshua the son of Nun, and before the princes, saying, Yahweh commanded Moses to give us an inheritance among our brothers: therefore according to the commandment of Yahweh he gave them an inheritance among the brothers of their father.

  • Num 27:1-3
    3 verses
    80%

    1Then drew near 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, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Tirzah.

    2They stood before Moses, and before Eleazar the priest, and before the princes and all the congregation, at the door of the tent of meeting, saying,

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

  • Num 27:5-11
    7 verses
    78%

    5Moses brought their cause before Yahweh.

    6Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

    7The daughters of Zelophehad speak right: 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.

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

    9If he have no daughter, then you shall give his inheritance to his brothers.

    10If he have no brothers, then you shall give his inheritance to his father's brothers.

    11If his father have no brothers, then you shall give his inheritance to his kinsman who is next to him of his family, and he shall possess it: and it shall be to the children of Israel a statute [and] ordinance, as Yahweh commanded Moses.

  • Num 36:1-4
    4 verses
    74%

    1The heads of the fathers' [houses] of the family 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 princes, the heads of the fathers' [houses] of the children of Israel:

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

    3If they be married to any of the sons of the [other] tribes of the children of Israel, then will their inheritance be taken away from the inheritance of our fathers, and will be added to the inheritance of the tribe whereunto they shall belong: so will it be taken away from the lot of our inheritance.

    4When the jubilee of the children of Israel shall be, then will their inheritance be added to the inheritance of the tribe whereunto they shall belong: so will their inheritance be taken away from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers.

  • Gen 31:14
    72%

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

  • Deut 25:6
    72%

    6It shall be, that the firstborn whom she bears shall succeed in the name of his brother who is dead, that his name not be blotted out of Israel.

  • Gen 31:16
    72%

    16For all the riches which God has taken away 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 the children of Israel have inherited every man his inheritance.

    19For we will not inherit with them on the other side of the Jordan, and forward; because our inheritance is fallen to us on this side of the Jordan eastward.

  • Num 36:7-10
    4 verses
    71%

    7So shall no inheritance of the children of Israel remove from tribe to tribe; for the children of Israel shall cleave everyone to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.

    8Every daughter, who possesses an inheritance in any tribe of the children of Israel, shall be wife to one of the family of the tribe of her father, that the children of Israel may possess every man the inheritance of his fathers.

    9So shall no inheritance remove from one tribe to another tribe; for the tribes of the children of Israel shall cleave everyone to his own inheritance.

    10Even as Yahweh commanded Moses, so did the daughters of Zelophehad:

  • Deut 18:2
    70%

    2They shall have no inheritance among their brothers: Yahweh is their inheritance, as he has spoken to them.

  • Judg 21:17
    70%

    17They said, There must be an inheritance for those who are escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe not be blotted out from Israel.

  • Josh 17:14
    70%

    14The children of Joseph spoke to Joshua, saying, Why have you given me but one lot and one part for an inheritance, seeing I am a great people, because hitherto Yahweh has blessed me?

  • Num 32:5
    70%

    5They said, If we have found favor in your sight, let this land be given to your servants for a possession; don't bring us over the Jordan.

  • Num 14:3
    70%

    3Why does Yahweh bring us to this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will be a prey: wouldn't it be better for us to return into Egypt?

  • Josh 22:27
    70%

    27but it shall be a witness between us and you, and between our generations after us, that we may do the service of Yahweh before him with our burnt offerings, and with our sacrifices, and with our peace-offerings; that your children may not tell our children in time to come, You have no portion in Yahweh.

  • Matt 22:25
    70%

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

  • Num 32:32
    70%

    32We will pass over armed before Yahweh into the land of Canaan, and the possession of our inheritance [shall remain] with us beyond the Jordan.

  • Josh 2:13
    69%

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

  • Josh 14:3-4
    2 verses
    69%

    3For Moses had given the inheritance of the two tribes and the half-tribe beyond the Jordan: but to the Levites he gave no inheritance among them.

    4For the children of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim: and they gave no portion to the Levites in the land, save cities to dwell in, with the suburbs of it for their cattle and for their substance.

  • Judg 21:7
    69%

    7How shall we do for wives for those who remain, seeing we have sworn by Yahweh that we will not give them of our daughters to wives?

  • Gen 44:19-20
    2 verses
    69%

    19My lord asked his servants, saying, 'Have you a father, or a brother?'

    20We 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 portion nor inheritance with his brothers; Yahweh is his inheritance, according as Yahweh your God spoke to him.)

  • Judg 21:22
    69%

    22It shall be, when their fathers or their brothers come to complain to us, that we will say to them, Grant them graciously to us, because we didn't take for each man his wife in battle, neither did you give them to them, else would you now be guilty.

  • Josh 17:6
    69%

    6because the daughters of Manasseh had an inheritance among his sons. The land of Gilead belonged to the rest of the sons of Manasseh.

  • 2 Chr 20:11
    68%

    11behold, how they reward us, to come to cast us out of your possession, which you have given us to inherit.

  • Gen 47:19
    68%

    19Why should 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. Give us seed, that we may live, and not die, and that the land won't be desolate."

  • Num 20:4
    68%

    4Why have you brought the assembly of Yahweh into this wilderness, that we should die there, we and our animals?

  • Deut 33:4
    68%

    4Moses commanded us a law, An inheritance for the assembly of Jacob.

  • Josh 13:15
    68%

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

  • Gen 44:22
    68%

    22We said to my lord, 'The boy can't leave his father: for if he should leave his father, his father would die.'

  • 2 Sam 14:7
    68%

    7Behold, the whole family is risen against your handmaid, and they say, Deliver him who struck his brother, that we may kill him for the life of his brother whom he killed, and so destroy the heir also. Thus will they quench my coal which is left, and will leave to my husband neither name nor remainder on the surface of the earth.

  • Num 26:53
    68%

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

  • Lev 21:2
    68%

    2except for his relatives that are near to him: for his mother, for his father, for his son, for his daughter, for his brother,