Numbers 27:6 (BSB)
and the LORD answered him,
From Numbers 27. Also in the ESV.
Commentary on Numbers 27:6
- Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Numbers 27:1-11: Mention is made of the case of these daughters of Zelophehad in the chapter before, v. 33. It should seem, by the particular notice taken of it, that it was a singular case, and that the like did not at this time occur in all Israel, that the head of a family had no sons, but daughters only.
- John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Numbers 27:6: The daughters of Zelophehad speak right,.... What is just and reasonable: thou shalt surely give them a possession of an inheritance among their father's brethren; their uncles, or rather the children of them; for it is reasonable to suppose their father's brethren, or their uncles, were dead also: or "in giving thou shall give" (u); which, according to Jarchi, denotes two parts or portions they...
- Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Numbers 27:5-7: Num 27:5-7 This question of right (Mishpat) Moses brought before God, and received instructions in reply to give the daughters of Zelophehad an inheritance among the brethren of their father, as they had spoken right. Further instructions were added afterwards in Num 36:1-13 in relation to the marriage of heiresses.