Devine Scripture

Numbers 27:4

Numbers chapter 27 · verse 4 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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.

Context

v.3Our 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.

v.4This passage

v.5And Moses brought their cause before Jehovah.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Joshua 17:4

    And they came near before Eleazar the priest, and before Joshua the son of Nun, and before the princes, saying, Jehovah commanded Moses to give us an inheritance among our brethren: therefore according to the commandment of Jehovah he gave them an inheritance among the brethren of their father.

  • Exodus 32:11

    And Moses besought Jehovah his God, and said, Jehovah, why doth thy wrath wax hot against thy people, that thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?

  • Proverbs 13:9

    The light of the righteous rejoiceth; But the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.

  • Psalms 109:13

    Let his posterity be cut off; In the generation following let their name be blotted out.