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Numbers 27:11

If his father has no brothers, then you shall give his inheritance to his kinsman who is next to him of his family, and he shall possess it. This shall be a statute and ordinance for the children of Israel, as Yahweh commanded Moses.’ ”

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  • WEB World English Bible

    If his father has no brothers, then you shall give his inheritance to his kinsman who is next to him of his family, and he shall possess it. This shall be a statute and ordinance for the children of Israel, as Yahweh commanded Moses.’ ”

  • KJV King James Version

    And if his father have no brethren, then ye shall give his inheritance unto his kinsman that is next to him of his family, and he shall possess it: and it shall be unto the children of Israel a statute of judgment, as the LORD commanded Moses.

  • JPS JPS Tanakh (1917)

    And if his father have no brethren, then ye shall give his inheritance unto his kinsman that is next to him of his family, and he shall possess it. And it shall be unto the children of Israel a statute of judgment, as the LORD commanded Moses.'

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Cross-references (6)

Passages linked to Numbers 27:11 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.

  • Numbers 35:29 “ ‘These things shall be for a statute and ordinance to you throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
  • Ruth 4:3-6 He said to the near kinsman, “Naomi, who has come back out of the country of Moab, is selling the parcel of land, which was our brother Elimelech’s. I thought I should tell you, saying, ‘Buy it before those who sit here, and before the elders of my people.’ If you will redeem it, redeem it; but if you will not redeem it, then tell me, that I may know. For there is no one to redeem it besides you; and I am after you.” He said, “I will redeem it.” Then Boaz said, “On the day you buy the field from the hand of Naomi, you must buy it also from Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of the dead, to raise up the name of the dead on his inheritance.” The near kinsman said, “I can’t redeem it for myself, lest I endanger my own inheritance. Take my right of redemption for yourself; for I can’t redeem it.”
  • Jeremiah 32:8 “So Hanamel my uncle’s son came to me in the court of the guard according to Yahweh’s word, and said to me, ‘Please buy my field that is in Anathoth, which is in the land of Benjamin; for the right of inheritance is yours, and the redemption is yours. Buy it for yourself.’ “Then I knew that this was Yahweh’s word.
  • Leviticus 25:25 “ ‘If your brother becomes poor, and sells some of his possessions, then his kinsman who is next to him shall come, and redeem that which his brother has sold.
  • Leviticus 25:49 or his uncle, or his uncle’s son, may redeem him, or any who is a close relative to him of his family may redeem him; or if he has grown rich, he may redeem himself.
  • 1 Samuel 30:25 It was so from that day forward, that he made it a statute and an ordinance for Israel to this day.

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Explain this verse (8 sources)

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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Meaning, an ordinance to judge by.

Meaning, an ordinance to judge by.

Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain.

John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Num 27:11 And if his father have no brethren,…
Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain A statute of judgment; a statute or rule by…
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And the Lord said unto Moses,.... After the covenant…
John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain A statute of judgment - A statute or rule,…
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Uncles. His nephews are at a greater distance from…
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 11. a statute of judgement] The expression recurs in…
The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain A statute of judgment, fpvmi tQ Septuagint, dikaiwma krisewv…

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