Numbers 27:5

5 And Moses brought their cause before Jehovah.

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, and he was not among the company of them that gathered themselves together against Jehovah in the company of Korah: but he died in his own sin; and he had no sons.

4 Why should the name of our father be taken away from among his family, because he had no son? Give unto us a possession among the brethren of our father.

5 And Moses brought their cause before Jehovah.

6 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,

7 The daughters of Zelophehad speak right: thou shalt surely give them a possession of an inheritance among their father's brethren; and thou shalt cause the inheritance of their father to pass unto them.