Nombres 27:9

9 Que s'il n'a point de fille, vous donnerez son héritage à ses frères.

Nombres 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.

Nombres 27:9 In-Context

7 Les filles de Tsélophcad ont raison. Tu leur donneras la possession d'un héritage au milieu des frères de leur père, et c'est à elles que tu feras passer l'héritage de leur père.

8 Tu parleras aussi aux enfants d'Israël, en disant: Lorsqu'un homme mourra, sans avoir de fils, vous ferez passer son héritage à sa fille.

9 Que s'il n'a point de fille, vous donnerez son héritage à ses frères.

10 Et s'il n'a point de frères, vous donnerez son héritage aux frères de son père.

11 Que si son père n'a point de frères, vous donnerez son héritage à son parent, le plus proche de sa famille, et il le possédera; et ce sera pour les enfants d'Israël une ordonnance de droit, comme l'Éternel l'a commandé à Moïse.