Numbers 27:5

So Moses/I asked Yahweh what to do about their request.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

And Moses brought their cause before the LORD.

In Context

4◄Why should the name of his clan disappear with the result that we do not receive any land only because our father had no sons?/It is not right that the name of his clan disappear with the result that we do not receive any land only because our father had no sons.► [RHQ] So give us some land like our relatives will be getting!”

6And Yahweh replied,

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Cross References

Exodus 18:15Moses/I replied, “ I am doing this because the people keep coming to me to find out what God desires.

Leviticus 24:12So the Israeli people seized him and guarded him until they could find out what Yahweh would reveal to them that they should do to that man.

Numbers 15:34They guarded him carefully, because they did not know what to do to punish him.

Proverbs 3:5Trust in Yahweh completely, and do not rely on what you yourself understand.

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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