Números 27:9

9 Si no tiene hija, sus hermanos recibirán la herencia.

Números 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.

Números 27:9 In-Context

7 «Lo que piden las hijas de Zelofejad es algo justo, así que debes darles una propiedad entre los parientes de su padre. Traspásales a ellas la heredad de su padre.

8 »Además, diles a los israelitas: “Cuando un hombre muera sin dejar hijos, su heredad será traspasada a su hija.

9 Si no tiene hija, sus hermanos recibirán la herencia.

10 Si no tiene hermanos, se entregará la herencia a los hermanos de su padre.

11 Si su padre no tiene hermanos, se entregará la herencia al pariente más cercano de su clan, para que tome posesión de ella. Este será el procedimiento legal que seguirán los israelitas, tal como yo se lo ordené a Moisés”».