Numbers 27:4
Good News Translation
Just because he had no sons, why should our father's name disappear from Israel? Give us property among our father's relatives."

New Revised Standard Version
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.”

Contemporary English Version
to carry on his family name. But why should his name die out for that reason? Give us some land like the rest of his relatives in our clan, so our father's name can live on.

New American Bible
But why should our father’s name be cut off from his clan merely because he had no son? Give us land among our father’s kindred.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Moses referred their cause to the judgment of the Lord.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

Numbers 15:34 And they put him into prison, not knowing what they should do with him.

Exodus 18:15-19 And Moses answered him: The people come to me to seek the judgment of God? . . .

Exodus 25:22 Thence will I give orders, and will speak to thee over the propitiatory, and from the midst of the two cherubims, which shall be upon the ark of the testimony, all things which I will command the children of Israel by thee.

Leviticus 24:12,13 And they put him into prison, till they might know what the Lord would command. . . .

Job 23:4 I would set judgment before him, and would fill my mouth with complaints.

Proverbs 3:5,6 In all thy ways think on him, and he will direct thy steps. . . .

Context
The Daughters of Zelophehad
3Our 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. 4And Moses referred their cause to the judgment of the Lord.5And the Lord said to him:…
Cross References
Numbers 27:3
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 27:5
And the Lord said to him:

Numbers 27:3
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