Numbers 27:4

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.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

Why should the name of our father be done away from among his family, because he hath no son? Give unto us therefore a possession among the brethren of our father.

In Context

3Death 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.

5So Moses put their cause before the Lord.

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Cross References

Exodus 32:11But Moses made prayer to God, saying, Lord, why is your wrath burning against your people whom you took out of the land of Egypt, with great power and with the strength of your hand?

Psalms 109:13Let his seed be cut off; in the coming generation let their name go out of memory.

Matthew Henry on Numbers 27:2-12

The Daughters of Zelophehad. ( b. c. 1452.) 1 Then came 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. 2 And they stood before Moses, and before Eleazar the priest, and before the princes and all the congregation, by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, saying, 3 Our father died in the wilderness, and he was… Read the whole commentary →

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