Numbers 27:5

5 Moses ¹brought their case before the LORD.

Numbers 27:5 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 27:5

And Moses brought their cause before the Lord.
] For it seems it was too difficult for this court to decide; and it devolving upon Moses, as the president of it, and who only could have recourse to God at all times, he carried it to him and consulted with him about it: this, as the Targums of Jonathan and Jerusalem say, was one of the four causes that came before Moses the prophet, that he solved according to the mind of the Lord, which he consulted; one was concerning the blasphemer, ( Leviticus 24:11 ) , the other concerning those defiled by the dead, ( Numbers 9:8 ) , the third concerning the sabbath breaker, ( Numbers 15:34 ) and the fourth was this; (See Gill on Leviticus 24:12).

Numbers 27:5 In-Context

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 said to Moses,

7 "The daughters of Zelophehad are right. You shall give them possession of an inheritance among their father's brothers and transfer the inheritance of their father to them.

Cross References

• 1. Exodus 18:19