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Numbers 27:3-5
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Numbers 27:3-5
New English Translation
3 “Our father died in the wilderness, although[a] he was not part of[b] the company of those that gathered themselves together against the Lord in the company of Korah, but he died for his own sin,[c] and he had no sons. 4 Why should the name of our father be lost from among his family because he had no son? Give us a possession[d] among the relatives[e] of our father.”
5 So Moses brought their case before the Lord.
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- Numbers 27:3 tn This clause begins with a vav (ו) on a pronoun, marking it out as a disjunctive vav. In this context it fits best to take it as a circumstantial clause introducing concession.
- Numbers 27:3 tn Heb “in the midst of.”
- Numbers 27:3 tn The word order is emphatic: “but in/on account of his own sins he died.”
- Numbers 27:4 tn That is, the possession of land, or property, among the other families of their tribe.
- Numbers 27:4 tn The word is “brothers,” but this can be interpreted more loosely to relatives. So also in v. 7.
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