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Numbers 27:7-17

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7 "What Zelophehad's daughters say is correct. You are to give them hereditary property among their father's brothers and transfer their father's inheritance to them.
8 Tell the Israelites: When a man dies without having a son, transfer his inheritance to his daughter.
9 If he has no daughter, give his inheritance to his brothers.
10 If he has no brothers, give his inheritance to his father's brothers.
11 If his father has no brothers, give his inheritance to the nearest relative of his clan, and he will take possession of it. This is to be a statutory ordinance for the Israelites as the Lord commanded Moses."

Joshua Commissioned to Succeed Moses

12 Then the Lord said to Moses, "Go up this mountain of the Abarim [range][a] and see the land that I have given the Israelites.
13 After you have seen it, you will also be gathered to your people, as Aaron your brother was.[b]
14 When the community quarreled in the Wilderness of Zin, both of you rebelled against My command to show My holiness in their sight at the waters." Those were the waters of Meribah[c] of Kadesh in the Wilderness of Zin.[d]
15 So Moses appealed to the Lord,
16 "May the Lord, the God of the spirits of all flesh,[e] appoint a man over the community
17 who will go out before them and come back in before them,[f] and who will bring them out and bring them in, so that the Lord's community won't be like sheep without a shepherd."[g]
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Numbers 27:7-17 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO NUMBERS 27

This chapter relates, that, upon a petition of the daughters of Zelophehad, the affair of inheritances was settled; and it is directed that, in case of want of male issue, inheritances should pass to females, and in failure of them to the next of kin, whether father's brethren or any near kinsman, Nu 27:1-11, also an order to Moses to go up to the Mount Abarim, and take a view of the good land, and die; with the reason of it, Nu 27:12-14, upon which Moses desires a successor of him might be appointed, Nu 27:15-17, in answer to which Joshua is nominated, and being presented before the high priest and the people, was invested with his office, by imposition of hands, and had his charge given him, Nu 27:18-23.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible
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Footnotes 7

  • [a] Mount Nebo; Nm 33:47-48; Dt 32:49; Jr 22:20
  • [b] Nm 20:22-29
  • [c] quarreling
  • [d] Nm 20:2-13; Dt 32:51
  • [e] Nm 16:22
  • [f] Jos 14:11; 1 Sm 18:13-16; 2 Sm 5:2; 11:1; 1 Kg 3:7; 2 Kg 11:9
  • [g] 1 Kg 22:17; Ezk 34:5
Holman Christian Standard Bible ® Copyright © 2003, 2002, 2000, 1999 by Holman Bible Publishers.  Used by permission.  All rights reserved.

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