Numbers 27:4
New International Version
Why should our father’s name disappear from his clan because he had no son? Give us property among our father’s relatives.”

New Living Translation
Why should the name of our father disappear from his clan just because he had no sons? Give us property along with the rest of our relatives.”

English 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.”

Berean Standard Bible
Why should the name of our father disappear from his clan because he had no sons? Give us property among our father’s brothers.”

King James Bible
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.

New King James Version
Why should the name of our father be removed from among his family because he had no son? Give us a possession among our father’s brothers.”

New American Standard Bible
Why should the name of our father be withdrawn from among his family simply because he had no son? Give us property among our father’s brothers.”

NASB 1995
“Why should the name of our father be withdrawn from among his family because he had no son? Give us a possession among our father’s brothers.”

NASB 1977
“Why should the name of our father be withdrawn from among his family because he had no son? Give us a possession among our father’s brothers.”

Legacy Standard Bible
Why should the name of our father be withdrawn from among his family because he had no son? Give us a possession among our father’s brothers.”

Amplified Bible
Why should the name of our father be removed from his family because he had no son? Give to us a possession (land) among our father’s brothers.”

Christian Standard Bible
Why should the name of our father be taken away from his clan? Since he had no son, give us property among our father’s brothers.”

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Why should the name of our father be taken away from his clan? Since he had no son, give us property among our father’s brothers.”

American Standard Version
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.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Why is the name of our father blotted out from within his family because he has no son? Give us an inheritance among the brothers of our father.”

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And Moses brought their case before the Lord.

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.

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

English Revised Version
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.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Why should our father's name be allowed to die out in his family because he had no son? Give us property among our father's relatives."

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."

International Standard Version
Why are you going to eliminate the name of our father from his family, just because he had no son? Give us a possession from among our father's relatives."

JPS Tanakh 1917
Why should the name of our father be done away from among his family, because he had no son? Give unto us a possession among the brethren of our father.'

Literal Standard Version
why is the name of our father withdrawn from the midst of his family because he has no son? Give a possession to us in the midst of the brothers of our father”;

Majority Standard Bible
Why should the name of our father disappear from his clan because he had no sons? Give us property among our father’s brothers.”

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.”

NET Bible
Why should the name of our father be lost from among his family because he had no son? Give us a possession among the relatives of our father."

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.”

New Heart English Bible
Why should the name of our father be taken away from among his family, because he had no son? Give to us a possession among the brothers of our father."

Webster's Bible Translation
Why should the name of our father be done away from among his family, because he hath no son? Give to us therefore a possession among the brethren of our father.

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

Young's Literal Translation
why is the name of our father withdrawn from the midst of his family because he hath no son? give to us a possession in the midst of the brethren of our father;'

Additional Translations ...
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Context
The Daughters of Zelophehad
3“Our father died in the wilderness, but he was not among the followers of Korah who gathered together against the LORD. Instead, he died because of his own sin, and he had no sons. 4Why should the name of our father disappear from his clan because he had no sons? Give us property among our father’s brothers.” 5So Moses brought their case before the LORD,…

Cross References
Numbers 27:3
"Our father died in the wilderness, but he was not among the followers of Korah who gathered together against the LORD. Instead, he died because of his own sin, and he had no sons.

Numbers 27:5
So Moses brought their case before the LORD,


Treasury of Scripture

Why should the name of our father be done away from among his family, because he has no son? Give to us therefore a possession among the brothers of our father.

Numbers 15:34
And they put him in ward, because it was not declared what should be done to him.

Exodus 18:15-19
And Moses said unto his father in law, Because the people come unto me to inquire of God: …

Exodus 25:22
And there I will meet with thee, and I will commune with thee from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubims which are upon the ark of the testimony, of all things which I will give thee in commandment unto the children of Israel.

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Numbers 27
1. The daughters of Zelophehad ask for an inheritance
6. The law of inheritances
12. Moses, being told of his death, asks for a successor
18. Joshua is appointed to succeed him














Verse 4. - Give unto us... a possession among the brethren of our father. The daughters of Zelophehad did not ask for any share of what had been their father's, but they asked that the lands which would have been assigned to their father in the settlement of Canaan might still be assigned to them, so that their father's name might attach to those lands, and be handed down with them. The request assumes that the "brethren" of Zelophehad would receive an inheritance in the promised land, either personally or as represented by their sons; hence it seems clear that Zelophehad was not of the elder generation, which had forfeited all their rights and expectations in Canaan, but of the younger, to whom the inheritance was transferred (Numbers 14:29-32). This is confirmed by the consideration that these women were not married until some time after this (Numbers 36:11; cf. Joshua 17:8, 4), and must, therefore, according to the almost invariable custom, have been quite young at this time. It is reasonable to suppose that the heads of separate families to whom the land was distributed would be at this time men of from forty-five to sixty years of age, comprising the elder half of the generation which grew up in the wilderness. Zelophehad would have been among these, but that he was cut off, perhaps in the plague of serpents, or in the plague of the Arboth Mesh, and left only unmarried girls to represent him.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Why
לָ֣מָּה (lām·māh)
Interrogative
Strong's 4100: What?, what!, indefinitely what

should the name
שֵׁם־ (šêm-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 8034: A name

of our father
אָבִ֙ינוּ֙ (’ā·ḇî·nū)
Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common plural
Strong's 1: Father

disappear
יִגָּרַ֤ע (yig·gā·ra‘)
Verb - Nifal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 1639: To scrape off, to shave, remove, lessen, withhold

from
מִתּ֣וֹךְ (mit·tō·wḵ)
Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 8432: A bisection, the centre

his clan
מִשְׁפַּחְתּ֔וֹ (miš·paḥ·tōw)
Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 4940: A family, circle of relatives, a class, a species, sort, a tribe, people

because
כִּ֛י (kî)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

he had no
אֵ֥ין (’ên)
Adverb
Strong's 369: A non-entity, a negative particle

sons?
בֵּ֑ן (bên)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 1121: A son

Give
תְּנָה־ (tə·nāh-)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular | third person feminine singular
Strong's 5414: To give, put, set

us property
אֲחֻזָּ֔ה (’ă·ḥuz·zāh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 272: Something seized, a possession

among
בְּת֖וֹךְ (bə·ṯō·wḵ)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 8432: A bisection, the centre

our father’s
אָבִֽינוּ׃ (’ā·ḇî·nū)
Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common plural
Strong's 1: Father

brothers.”
אֲחֵ֥י (’ă·ḥê)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 251: A brother, )


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