And if he have no brethren, you shall give the inheritance to his father's brethren.

kinsman

Leviticus 25:25,49 If thy brother being impoverished sell his little possession, and his kinsman will: he may redeem what he had sold. . . .

Ruth 4:3-6 They sat down, and he spoke to the kinsman: Noemi, who is returned from the country of Moab will sell a parcel of land that belonged to our brother Elimelech. . . .

Jeremiah 32:8 And Hanameel my uncle's son came to me, according to the word of the Lord, to the entry of the prison, and said to me: Buy my field, which is in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin: for the right of inheritance is thine, and thou art next of kin to possess it. And I understood that this was the word of the Lord.

a statute

Numbers 35:29 These things shall be perpetual, and for an ordinance in all your dwellings.

1 Samuel 30:25 And this hath been done from that day forward, and since was made a statute and an ordinance, and as a law in Israel.