Numeri 27:9

9 E s’egli non ha figliuola, date la sua eredità a’ 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 Selofad parlano dirittamente; del tutto da’ loro possession d’eredità tra i fratelli del padre loro; e trasporta in loro la possessione del padre loro.

8 E parla a’ figliuoli d’Israele, dicendo: Quando alcuno sarà morto senza figliuol maschio, trasportate l’eredità di esso nella sua figliuola.

9 E s’egli non ha figliuola, date la sua eredità a’ suoi fratelli.

10 E se non ha fratelli, date la sua eredità a’ fratelli di suo padre.

11 E se non vi sono fratelli di suo padre, date la sua eredità al suo prossimo carnal parente, che sia della sua famiglia; ed egli la possegga. E ciò sia uno statuto di ragione a’ figliuoli d’Israele; come il Signore ha comandato a Mosè.