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Numbers 27:9

If he has no daughter, everything he owns will be given to his brothers.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Daughter;   Heir;   Inheritance;   Israel;   Land;   Legislation;   Property;   Tirzah;   Women;   Zelophehad;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Desert, Journey of Israel through the;   Theocracy, the, or Immediate Government by God;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Children;   Inheritance;   Zelophehad;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Inheritance;   Moses;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Inheritance;   Widow;   Woman;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Heir;   Mahlah;   Zelophehad;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Mahlah;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Ancestors;   Economic Life;   Inheritance;   Mahlah;   Noah;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Inheritance;   Numbers, Book of;   Zin;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Heir Heritage Inheritance;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Heir;   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 - Genealogy;   Heir;   Hoglah;   Inheritance;   Relationships, Family;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Agnates;   Baba Batra;   Bequest;   Family and Family Life;   Inheritance;   Priestly Code;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
If he have no daughter, then you shall give his inheritance to his brothers.
King James Version
And if he have no daughter, then ye shall give his inheritance unto his brethren.
Lexham English Bible
And if he has no daughter, you must give his inheritance to his brothers.
English Standard Version
And if he has no daughter, then you shall give his inheritance to his brothers.
New Century Version
If he has no daughter, then everything he owned should go to his brothers.
New English Translation
and if he has no daughter, then you are to give his inheritance to his brothers;
Amplified Bible
'If a man has no daughter, then you shall give his inheritance to his brothers.
New American Standard Bible
'And if he has no daughter, then you shall give his inheritance to his brothers.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And if he haue no daughter, ye shall giue his inheritance vnto his brethren.
Legacy Standard Bible
And if he has no daughter, then you shall give his inheritance to his brothers.
Contemporary English Version
If he has no daughter, his brothers will inherit the land.
Complete Jewish Bible
If he doesn't have a daughter, give his inheritance to his brothers.
Darby Translation
And if he have no daughter, ye shall give his inheritance unto his brethren.
George Lamsa Translation
And if he has no daughter, then you shall give his inheritance to his brothers.
Good News Translation
If he has no daughter, his brothers are to inherit it.
Christian Standard Bible®
If he has no daughter, give his inheritance to his brothers.
Literal Translation
And if he has no daughter, then you shall give his inheritance to his brothers.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Yf he haue no doughter, ye shal geue it vnto his brethre.
American Standard Version
And if he have no daughter, then ye shall give his inheritance unto his brethren.
Bible in Basic English
And if he has no daughter, then give his heritage to his brothers.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
If he haue no daughter, ye shall geue his inheritaunce vnto his brethren.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And if he have no daughter, then ye shall give his inheritance unto his brethren.
King James Version (1611)
And if he haue no daughter, then yee shall giue his inheritance vnto his brethren.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And if he have no daughter, ye shall give his inheritance to his brother.
English Revised Version
And if he have no daughter, then ye shall give his inheritance unto his brethren.
Berean Standard Bible
If he has no daughter, give his inheritance to his brothers.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
if he hath not a douyter, he schal haue eiris his britheren;
Young's Literal Translation
and if he have no daughter, then ye have given his inheritance to his brethren;
Update Bible Version
And if he has no daughter, then you shall give his inheritance to his brothers.
Webster's Bible Translation
And if he shall have no daughter, then ye shall give his inheritance to his brethren.
World English Bible
If he have no daughter, then you shall give his inheritance to his brothers.
New King James Version
If he has no daughter, then you shall give his inheritance to his brothers.
New Living Translation
And if he has no daughter either, transfer his inheritance to his brothers.
New Life Bible
If he has no daughter, then give what belongs to him to his brothers.
New Revised Standard
If he has no daughter, then you shall give his inheritance to his brothers.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, if he hath no daughter, then shall ye give his inheritance unto his, brethren.
Douay-Rheims Bible
If he have no daughter, his brethren shall succeed him.
Revised Standard Version
And if he has no daughter, then you shall give his inheritance to his brothers.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
'If he has no daughter, then you shall give his inheritance to his brothers.

Contextual Overview

1 Zelophehad was the son of Hepher. Hepher was the son of Gilead. Gilead was the son of Makir. Makir was the son of Manasseh. Manasseh was the son of Joseph. Zelophehad had five daughters. Their names were Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah. 2 These five women went to the Meeting Tent and stood before Moses, Eleazar the priest, the leaders, and all the Israelites. The five daughters said, 3 "Our father died while we were traveling through the desert. He died a natural death. He was not one of the men who joined Korah's group. (Korah was the man who turned against the Lord .) But our father had no sons. 4 This means that our father's name will not continue. It is not fair that our father's name will not continue. His name will end because he had no sons. So we ask you to give us some of the land that our father's brothers will get." 5 So Moses asked the Lord what he should do. 6 The Lord said to him, 7 "The daughters of Zelophehad are right. They should share the land with their father's brothers. So give them the land that you would have given to their father. 8 "So tell the Israelites, ‘If a man has no son, when he dies everything he owns will be given to his daughter. 9 If he has no daughter, everything he owns will be given to his brothers. 10 If he has no brothers, everything he owns will be given to his father's brothers.

Bible Verse Review
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Cross-References

Judges 13:15
Then Manoah said to the angel of the Lord , "We would like for you to stay a while. We want to cook a young goat for you to eat."
1 Samuel 16:20
So Jesse got some things as a gift for Saul. Jesse got a donkey, some bread and a leather bag full of wine, and a young goat. He gave them to David and sent him to Saul.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And if he have no daughter,.... Dies without any issue:

then ye shall give his inheritance unto his brethren; and the children descending from them; that is, if his father was dead; otherwise, if he was living, he was to be preferred to them, according to the Jewish writers; though, according to our law, no estate in fee simple ascends lineally, or goes from a son, who has made a purchase of it, to a father: in the Misnah it is said x, the order of inheritances is thus,

"if a man dies and has no son, then they cause his inheritance to pass to his daughter; a son is before a daughter, and all that descend from the son are before the daughter; the daughter is before the brethren (of her father), and those that descend from the daughter are before the brethren; the brethren (of a man) are before his father's brethren (or his uncles); and they that descend from his brethren are before his father's brethren: this is the general rule, everyone that is before in the inheritance, those that descend from him are before others, and a father is before all that descend from him.''

x Ut supra, (Bava Bathra, c. 8.) sect. 2.


 
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