Números 27:9

9 Y si tampoco tiene hijas, su herencia se transferirá a sus hermanos.

Números 27:9 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 27:9

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 ^F24, 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.''

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FOOTNOTES:

F24 Ut supra, (Bava Bathra, c. 8.) sect. 2.

Números 27:9 In-Context

7 «La petición de las hijas de Zelofehad es legítima. Así que dales una porción de terreno junto con los parientes de su padre. Asígnales la porción de terreno que se hubiera dado a su padre.

8 »Y da al pueblo de Israel las siguientes instrucciones: si un hombre muere sin dejar hijo varón, entonces se le dará su herencia a sus hijas.

9 Y si tampoco tiene hijas, su herencia se transferirá a sus hermanos.

10 Si no tiene hermanos, entrega su herencia a los hermanos de su padre.

11 Y si su padre no tiene ningún hermano, entonces entrega su herencia al pariente más cercano dentro de su clan. Este es un requisito legal para el pueblo de Israel, tal como el Señor
le ordenó a Moisés».