Numbers 27:5

5 So Moses brought their case before Yahweh.

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 desert; he was not in the midst of the company of those who banded together against Yahweh 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 disappear from the midst of his clan because he does not have a son? Give us property in the midst of the brothers of our father."

5 So Moses brought their case before Yahweh.

6 And Yahweh said to Moses, saying,

7 "{The statements of the daughters of Zelophehad are right}. You must surely give them [the] property of an inheritance in the midst of their father's brothers, and you must transfer the inheritance of their father to them.