Numbers 27:4 - Easy To Read Version

⁴ This means that our father’s name will not continue. It is not fair that our father’s name will not continue. His name will end because he had no sons. So we ask you to give us some of the land that our father’s brothers will get.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ Why should the name of our father be done away from among his family, because he hath no son? Give unto us therefore a possession among the brethren of our father.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ Why should the name of our father be removed from his family because he had no son? Give to us a possession among our father's brethren.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ Why should the name of our father be taken away from among his family, because he had no son? Give unto us a possession among the brethren of our father.

Common English Bible

⁴ Why should our father’s name be taken away from his clan because he didn’t have a son? Give us property among our father’s brothers.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ And Moses referred their case to the judgment of the Lord.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴ And Moses referred their cause to the judgment of the Lord.

Numbers 27:4 Cross References

Psalm 109:13

Destroy my enemy completely.\par Let the next generation remove his name\par from everything.\par

Exodus 32:11

But Moses begged the Lord his God, “Lord, don’t let your anger destroy your people. You brought these people out of Egypt with your great power and strength.

Proverbs 13:9

A good person is like a light that shines brightly. But an evil person is like a light that becomes dark.

Numbers 27:3

“Our father died while we were traveling through the desert. Our father died a natural death. He was not one of the men that joined Korah’s group. (Korah was the man who turned against the Lord.) But our father had no sons.

Numbers 27:5

So Moses asked the Lord what he should do.

Joshua 17:4

The daughters went to Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and all the leaders. The daughters said, “The Lord told Moses to give us land the same as our male relatives.” So he obeyed the Lord and gave the daughters some land. So these daughters got land the same as their uncles.