Numbers 27:3 - Revised Standard Version

³ “Our father died in the wilderness; he was not among the company of those who gathered themselves together against the Lord in the company of Korah, but died for his own sin; and he had no sons.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ Our father died in the wilderness, and he was not in the company of them that gathered themselves together against the LORD in the company of Korah; but died in his own sin, and had no sons.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ Our father died in the wilderness. He was not among those who assembled together against the Lord in the company of Korah, but died for his own sin [as did all those who rebelled at Kadesh], and he had no sons. [Num. 14:26-35.]

American Standard Version (1901)

³ Our father died in the wilderness, and he was not among the company of them that gathered themselves together against Jehovah in the company of Korah: but he died in his own sin; and he had no sons.

Common English Bible

³ “Our father died in the desert. He wasn’t part of the community who gathered against the LORD with Korah’s community. He died for his own sin, but he had no sons.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ "Our father died in the desert, and was not with the sedition, which was stirred up against the Lord under Korah, but he died in his own sin; he had no male sons. Why is his name taken away from his family, because he had no son? Give us a possession among the kinsmen of our father."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ Our father died in the desert, and was not in the sedition that was raised against the Lord under Core but he died in his own sin. And he had no male children. Why is his name taken away out of his family, because he had no son? Give us a possession among the kinsmen of our father.

Numbers 27:3 Cross References

Ezekiel 18:4

Behold, all souls are mine; the soul of the father as well as the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sins shall die.

Numbers 14:35

I, the Lord, have spoken; surely this will I do to all this wicked congregation that are gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall come to a full end, and there they shall die.”

Numbers 16:19

Then Korah assembled all the congregation against them at the entrance of the tent of meeting. And the glory of the Lord appeared to all the congregation.

Numbers 16:49

Now those who died by the plague were fourteen thousand seven hundred, besides those who died in the affair of Korah.

Numbers 26:33

Now Zelophehad the son of Hepher had no sons, but daughters: and the names of the daughters of Zelophehad were Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.

Numbers 27:2

And they stood before Moses, and before Eleazar the priest, and before the leaders and all the congregation, at the door of the tent of meeting, saying,

Numbers 27:4

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

John 8:21

Again he said to them, “I go away, and you will seek me and die in your sin; where I am going, you cannot come.”

John 8:24

I told you that you would die in your sins, for you will die in your sins unless you believe that I am he.”

Romans 5:12

Therefore as sin came into the world through one man and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all men sinned—

Romans 5:21

so that, as sin reigned in death, grace also might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Romans 6:23

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.