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Numbers 27:8

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.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Daughter;   Heir;   Inheritance;   Israel;   Land;   Legislation;   Property;   Tirzah;   Women;   Zelophehad;   Thompson Chain Reference - Business Life;   Heirs;   Inheritance;   Land;   Laws of Inheritance;   Real Estate;   Woman;   Women;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Children;   Desert, Journey of Israel through the;   Theocracy, the, or Immediate Government by God;   Woman;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Children;   Inheritance;   Zelophehad;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Inheritance;   Moses;   Women;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Inheritance;   Widow;   Woman;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Heir;   Mahlah;   Zelophehad;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Heir;   Jecamiah;   Mahlah;   Nedabiah;   Shealtiel;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Ancestors;   Economic Life;   Father's House;   Inheritance;   Mahlah;   Milcah;   Noah;   Nuzi;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Inheritance;   Numbers, Book of;   Zin;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Heir Heritage Inheritance;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Children;   Heir;   Law of Moses;   Mah'lah;   Zelo'phehad;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Government of the Hebrews;   Testament;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - On to Canaan;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Brother's Wife;   Genealogy;   Heir;   Hoglah;   Inheritance;   Relationships, Family;   Woman;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Agnates;   Baba Batra;   Bastard;   Bequest;   Commandments, the 613;   Family and Family Life;   Imma Shalom;   Inheritance;   Manasseh;   Priestly Code;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
You shall speak to the children of Yisra'el, saying, If a man die, and have no son, then you shall cause his inheritance to pass to his daughter.
King James Version
And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a man die, and have no son, then ye shall cause his inheritance to pass unto his daughter.
Lexham English Bible
And you must speak to the Israelites, saying, ‘If a man dies and has no son, you must transfer his inheritance to his daughter.
English Standard Version
And you shall speak to the people of Israel, saying, ‘If a man dies and has no son, then you shall transfer his inheritance to his daughter.
New Century Version
"Tell the Israelites, ‘If a man dies and has no son, then everything he owned should go to his daughter.
New English Translation
And you must tell the Israelites, ‘If a man dies and has no son, then you must transfer his inheritance to his daughter;
Amplified Bible
"Further, you shall say to the Israelites, 'If a man dies and has no son, you shall transfer his inheritance to his daughter.
New American Standard Bible
"Further, you shall speak to the sons of Israel, saying, 'If a man dies and has no son, then you shall transfer his inheritance to his daughter.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Also thou shalt speake vnto the children of Israel, saying, If a man die and haue no sonne, then ye shall turne his inheritaunce vnto his daughter.
Legacy Standard Bible
Further, you shall speak to the sons of Israel, saying, ‘If a man dies and has no son, then you shall have his inheritance pass on to his daughter.
Contemporary English Version
Tell the Israelites that when a man dies without a son, his daughter will inherit his land.
Complete Jewish Bible
Moreover, say to the people of Isra'el, ‘If a man dies and does not have a son, you are to have his inheritance pass to his daughter.
Darby Translation
And unto the children of Israel shalt thou speak, saying, If a man die, and have no son, then ye shall cause his inheritance to pass unto his daughter.
Easy-to-Read Version
"So tell the Israelites, ‘If a man has no son, when he dies everything he owns will be given to his daughter.
George Lamsa Translation
And you shall say to the children of Israel, If a man dies and has no son, then you shall cause his inheritance to pass to his daughter.
Good News Translation
Tell the people of Israel that whenever a man dies without leaving a son, his daughter is to inherit his property.
Christian Standard Bible®
Tell the Israelites: When a man dies without having a son, transfer his inheritance to his daughter.
Literal Translation
And you shall speak to the sons of Israel, saying, When a man dies, and has no son, then you shall pass on his inheritance to his daughter.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And saye vnto the childre of Israel: Whan a ma dyeth & hath no sonne, ye shall turne his enheritaunce vnto his doughter.
American Standard Version
And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a man die, and have no son, then ye shall cause his inheritance to pass unto his daughter.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And thou shalt speake vnto the chyldren of Israel, saying: If a man dye and haue no sonne, ye shall turne his inheritaunce vnto his daughter.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying: If a man die, and have no son, then ye shall cause his inheritance to pass unto his daughter.
King James Version (1611)
And thou shalt speake vnto the children of Israel, saying, If a man die, and haue no sonne, then yee shall cause his inheritance to passe vnto his daughter.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
If a man die, and have no son, ye shall assign his inheritance to his daughter.
English Revised Version
And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a man die, and have no son, then ye shall cause his inheritance to pass unto his daughter.
Berean Standard Bible
Furthermore, you shall say to the Israelites, 'If a man dies and leaves no son, you are to transfer his inheritance to his daughter.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Whanne a man is deed with out sone, the eritage schal go to his douyter;
Young's Literal Translation
`And unto the sons of Israel thou dost speak, saying, When a man dieth, and hath no son, then ye have caused his inheritance to pass over to his daughter;
Update Bible Version
And you shall speak to the sons of Israel, saying, If a man dies, and has no son, then you shall cause his inheritance to pass to his daughter.
Webster's Bible Translation
And thou shalt speak to the children of Israel, saying, If a man shall die, and have no son, then ye shall cause his inheritance to pass to his daughter.
World English Bible
You 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.
New King James Version
And 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.
New Living Translation
"And give the following instructions to the people of Israel: If a man dies and has no son, then give his inheritance to his daughters.
New Life Bible
And say to the people of Israel, ‘If a man dies and has no son, then give what belongs to him to his daughter.
New Revised Standard
You shall also say to the Israelites, "If a man dies, and has no son, then you shall pass his inheritance on to his daughter.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And unto the sons of Israel, shalt thou speak, saying, - When, any man, shall die, having no son, then shall ye cause his inheritance to pass over to his daughter.
Douay-Rheims Bible
When a man dieth without a son, his inheritance shall pass to his daughter.
Revised Standard Version
And you shall say to the people of Israel, 'If a man dies, and has no son, then you shall cause his inheritance to pass to his daughter.
THE MESSAGE
"Then tell the People of Israel, If a man dies and leaves no son, give his inheritance to his daughter. If he has no daughter, give it to his brothers. If he has no brothers, give it to his father's brothers. If his father had no brothers, give it to the nearest relative so that the inheritance stays in the family. This is the standard procedure for the People of Israel, as commanded by God through Moses."
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Further, you shall speak to the sons of Israel, saying, 'If a man dies and has no son, then you shall transfer his inheritance to his daughter.

Contextual Overview

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. 4 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. 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.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: 1 Chronicles 2:34 - no sons

Cross-References

Genesis 25:23
And the Lord said to her, Two nations are in your body, and two peoples will come to birth from you: the one will be stronger than the other, and the older will be the servant of the younger.
Genesis 27:13
And his mother said, Let the curse be on me, my son: only do as I say, and go and get them for me.
Genesis 27:43
So now, my son, do what I say: go quickly to Haran, to my brother Laban;
Acts 4:19
But Peter and John in answer said to them, It is for you to say if it is right in the eyes of God to give attention to you more than to God:
Acts 5:29
But Peter and the Apostles, answering, said, We have to do the orders of God, not of man.
Ephesians 6:1
Children, do what is ordered by your fathers and mothers in the Lord: for this is right.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel,.... The above affair occasioned a law to be made, in which all the people would have a concern, among whom such cases should happen, as after related:

saying, if a man die, and have no son, then ye shall cause his inheritance to pass unto his daughter; as in the above case of the daughters of Zelophehad; what was determined as to their particular case was made into a general law.


 
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