Numeri 27:9

9 E, se non ha figliuola, darete la sua eredità ai suoi fratelli.

Numeri 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.

Numeri 27:9 In-Context

7 "Le figliuole di Tselofehad dicono bene. Sì, tu darai loro in eredità un possesso tra i fratelli del padre loro, e farai passare ad esse l’eredità del padre loro.

8 Parlerai pure ai figliuoli d’Israele, e dirai: Quand’uno sarà morto senza lasciar figliuolo maschio, farete passare l’eredità sua alla sua figliuola.

9 E, se non ha figliuola, darete la sua eredità ai suoi fratelli.

10 E, se non ha fratelli, darete la sua eredità ai fratelli di suo padre.

11 E, se non ci sono fratelli del padre, darete la sua eredità al parente più stretto nella sua famiglia; quello la possederà. Questo sarà per i figliuoli d’Israele una norma di diritto, come l’Eterno ha ordinato a Mosè".