Numeri 27:4

Gereviseerde Lutherse Vertaling

Waarom zal dan de naam onzes vaders in zijn geslacht ondergaan, omdat hij geen zoon heeft? Geeft ons ook een goed onder de broeders onzes vaders.

Parallel Translations

Gereviseerde Leidse Vertaling
Waarom zou de naam van onzen vader uit zijn geslacht worden afgesneden omdat hij geen zoon had? Geeft ons een bezitting in het midden der broeders van onzen vader!

Staten Vertaling
Waarom zou de naam onzes vaders uit het midden van zijn geslacht weggenomen worden, omdat hij geen zoon heeft? Geef ons een bezitting in het midden der broederen van onzen vader.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Why: Exodus 32:11, Psalms 109:13, Proverbs 13:9

done away: Heb. diminished

Give: Joshua 17:4

Reciprocal: 1 Chronicles 2:34 - no sons

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Why should the name of our father be done away from among his family, because he hath no son.... Or be withdrawn, and his family lose their part and share on that account; this they thought was unreasonable: according to the Targum of Jonathan, to prevent the name of their father being lost, and his part in the land, their motion was, that their mother might marry their father's brother, according to the law in Deuteronomy 25:5, with which Jarchi agrees; but it does not appear that that law was as yet in being; though how otherwise the name of their father would be preserved, than by raising up seed in that way, is not easy to say; except, as some think, it was done by a son of one of those heiresses, or by the first son of everyone of them, being called after the name of their grandfather Zelophehad, or their mother's grandfather Hepher; though the Jews t commonly by the "name" understand no other than the "inheritance", which seems to be confirmed by what follows:

give us therefore a possession among the brethren of our fathers; a part with their uncles, or their children; by which they express their faith that the children of Israel would inherit the land, though as yet it was not conquered, nor even entered into; and might signify, as some think, their concern to have a part and portion in the heavenly inheritance the land of Canaan was typical of; and if so, as Ainsworth observes, they may be considered as five wise virgins indeed.

t Pesikta, T. Bab. Jebamot, fol. 49. 1. Moses Cotzensis Praecept. Affirm. 51. Apud Selden. de Succession. ad leg. Ebra. c. 14. p. 97, 98.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Give unto us - As representing our father; that so he, through us his representatives, may enjoy a like inheritance with his brethren.