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New Revised Standard

Numbers 27:9

If he has no daughter, then you shall give his inheritance 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.
Easy-to-Read Version
If he has no daughter, everything he owns will be given to his brothers.
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.
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 Then the daughters of Zelophehad came forward. Zelophehad was son of Hepher son of Gilead son of Machir son of Manasseh son of Joseph, a member of the Manassite clans. The names of his daughters were: Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah. 2 They stood before Moses, Eleazar the priest, the leaders, and all the congregation, at the entrance of the tent of meeting, and they said, 3 "Our father died in the wilderness; he was not among the company of those who gathered themselves together against the Lord in the company of Korah, but died for his own sin; and he had no sons. 4 Why should the name of our father be taken away from his clan because he had no son? Give to us a possession among our father's brothers." 5 Moses brought their case before the Lord . 6 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: 7 The daughters of Zelophehad are right in what they are saying; you shall indeed let them possess an inheritance among their father's brothers and pass the inheritance of their father on to them. 8 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. 9 If he has no daughter, then you shall give his inheritance to his brothers. 10 If he has no brothers, then you shall give his inheritance to his father's brothers.

Bible Verse Review
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Cross-References

Judges 13:15
Manoah said to the angel of the Lord , "Allow us to detain you, and prepare a kid for you."
1 Samuel 16:20
Jesse took a donkey loaded with bread, a skin of wine, and a kid, and sent them by his son David 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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