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New American Standard Bible (NASB)

Numbers 27
² They stood before Moses and before Eleazar the priest and before the leaders and all the congregation, at the doorway of the tent of meeting, saying,
³ "Our father died in the wilderness, yet he was not among the company of those who gathered themselves together against the Lord in the company of Korah; but he died in his own sin, and he had no sons.
⁴ Why should the name of our father be withdrawn from among his family because he had no son?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."
⁵ So Moses brought their case before the Lord.
⁶ Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
⁷ "The daughters of Zelophehad are right in their statements. You shall surely give them a hereditary possession among their father’s brothers, and you shall transfer the inheritance of their father to them.
⁸ Further, you shall speak to the sons of Israel, saying, ’If a man dies and has no son, then you shall transfer his inheritance to his daughter.
⁹ If he has no daughter, then you shall give his inheritance to his brothers.
¹⁰ If he has no brothers, then you shall give his inheritance to his father’s brothers.
¹¹ If his father has no brothers, then you shall give his inheritance to his nearest relative in his own family, and he shall possess it; and it shall be a statutory ordinance to the sons of Israel, just as the Lord commanded Moses.’"
¹² Then the Lord said to Moses, "Go up to this mountain of Abarim, and see the land which I have given to the sons of Israel.