Numbers 27:4

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Why should the name of our father be taken away from his clan because he had no son? Give to us a possession among our father’s brothers.”

Cross References

Psalm 109:13

May his posterity be cut off; may his name be blotted out in the second generation.

Exodus 32:11

But Moses implored the Lord his God and said, “O Lord, why does your wrath burn hot against your people, whom you brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?

Proverbs 13:9

The light of the righteous rejoices, but the lamp of the wicked goes out.

Numbers 27:3

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

Numbers 27:5

Moses brought their case before the Lord.

Joshua 17:4

They came before the priest Eleazar and Joshua son of Nun and the leaders and said, “The Lord commanded Moses to give us an inheritance along with our male kin.” So according to the commandment of the Lord he gave them an inheritance among the kinsmen of their father.