Numbers 27:8

8 "Tell the Israelites, 'If a man dies and has no son, then everything he owned should go to his daughter.

Numbers 27:8 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 27:8

And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel
The above affair occasioned a law to be made, in which all the people would have a concern, among whom such cases should happen, as after related:

saying, if a man die, and have no son, then ye shall cause his
inheritance to pass unto his daughter;
as in the above case of the daughters of Zelophehad; what was determined as to their particular case was made into a general law.

Numbers 27:8 In-Context

6 and the Lord said to him,

7 "The daughters of Zelophehad are right; they should certainly get what their father owned. Give them property among their father's relatives.

8 "Tell the Israelites, 'If a man dies and has no son, then everything he owned should go to his daughter.

9 If he has no daughter, then everything he owned should go to his brothers.

10 If he has no brothers, then everything he owned should go to his father's brothers.