1 Accesserunt autem filiæ Salphaad, filii Hepher, filii Galaad, filii Machir, filii Manasse, qui fuit filius Joseph: quarum sunt nomina, Maala, et Noa, et Hegla, et Melcha, et Thersa. 2 Steteruntque coram Moyse et Eleazaro sacerdote et cunctis principibus populi ad ostium tabernaculi fœderis, atque dixerunt: 3 Pater noster mortuus est in deserto, nec fuit in seditione, quæ concitata est contra Dominum sub Core, sed in peccato suo mortuus est: hic non habuit mares filios. Cur tollitur nomen illius de familia sua, quia non habuit filium? date nobis possessionem inter cognatos patris nostri. 4 Retulitque Moyses causam earum ad judicium Domini. 5 Qui dixit ad eum: 6 Justam rem postulant filiæ Salphaad: da eis possessionem inter cognatos patris sui, et ei in hæreditatem succedant. 7 Ad filios autem Israël loqueris hæc: 8 Homo cum mortuus fuerit absque filio, ad filiam ejus transibit hæreditas. 9 Si filiam non habuerit, habebit successores fratres suos. 10 Quod si et fratres non fuerint, dabitis hæreditatem fratribus patris ejus. 11 Sin autem nec patruos habuerit, dabitur hæreditas his qui ei proximi sunt. Eritque hoc filiis Israël sanctum lege perpetua, sicut præcepit Dominus Moysi. 12 Dixit quoque Dominus ad Moysen: Ascende in montem istum Abarim, et contemplare inde terram, quam daturus sum filiis Israël. 13 Cumque videris eam, ibis et tu ad populum tuum, sicut ivit frater tuus Aaron: 14 quia offendistis me in deserto Sin in contradictione multitudinis, nec sanctificare me voluistis coram ea super aquas. Hæ sunt aquæ contradictionis in Cades deserti Sin. 15 Cui respondit Moyses: 16 Provideat Dominus Deus spirituum omnis carnis hominem, qui sit super multitudinem hanc: 17 et possit exire et intrare ante eos, et educere eos vel introducere: ne sit populus Domini sicut oves absque pastore. 18 Dixitque Dominus ad eum: Tolle Josue filium Nun, virum in quo est spiritus, et pone manum tuam super eum. 19 Qui stabit coram Eleazaro sacerdote et omni multitudine: 20 et dabis ei præcepta cunctis videntibus, et partem gloriæ tuæ, ut audiat eum omnis synagoga filiorum Israël. 21 Pro hoc, si quid agendum erit, Eleazar sacerdos consulet Dominum. Ad verbum ejus egredietur et ingredietur ipse, et omnes filii Israël cum eo, et cetera multitudo. 22 Fecit Moyses ut præceperat Dominus: cumque tulisset Josue, statuit eum coram Eleazaro sacerdote et omni frequentia populi. 23 Et impositis capiti ejus manibus, cuncta replicavit quæ mandaverat Dominus.
Numbers 27 Clementine Vulgate
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Gilead
The son of Machir son of Manasseh and the ancestor of the Gileadite clans, whose sons are listed in Numbers 26.
Cited in the guide: Numbers 26:29–30; Numbers 27:1; Numbers 36:1
Hepher
A son of Gilead, the founder of the Hepherite clan of Manasseh and the father of Zelophehad.
Cited in the guide: Numbers 26:32–33; Numbers 27:1; Joshua 17:2
Hoglah
One of the five daughters of Zelophehad who asked Moses for their father's inheritance, which the LORD granted, and who married cousins on their father's side.
Cited in the guide: Numbers 26:33; Numbers 27:1; Numbers 36:11
Mahlah
One of the five daughters of Zelophehad who asked Moses for their father's inheritance, which the LORD granted, and who married cousins on their father's side.
Cited in the guide: Numbers 26:33; Numbers 27:1; Numbers 36:11
Milcah
One of the five daughters of Zelophehad who asked Moses for their father's inheritance, which the LORD granted, and who married cousins on their father's side.
Cited in the guide: Numbers 26:33; Numbers 27:1; Numbers 36:11
Moses
Drawn from the Nile, he led Israel out of Egypt and received God's Law.
Cited in the guide: Exodus 2–Deuteronomy 34
Noah
One of the five daughters of Zelophehad who asked Moses for their father's inheritance, which the LORD granted, and who married cousins on their father's side.
Cited in the guide: Numbers 26:33; Numbers 27:1; Numbers 36:11
Tirzah
One of the five daughters of Zelophehad who asked Moses for their father's inheritance, which the LORD granted, and who married cousins on their father's side.
Cited in the guide: Numbers 26:33; Numbers 27:1; Numbers 36:11
Zelophehad
A Manassite, son of Hepher, who died in the wilderness without sons, so that the LORD granted his five daughters his inheritance.
Cited in the guide: Numbers 26:33; Numbers 27:1; Numbers 27:7
Cross references (18)
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- 1 Numbers 26:33; Galatians 3:28; 1 Chronicles 7:15; Numbers 36:1–12; Joshua 17:3–6
- 2 Exodus 18:19–26; Numbers 15:33–34; Exodus 18:13–14; Deuteronomy 17:8–10
- 3 Numbers 26:64–65; Ezekiel 18:4; Numbers 14:35; Numbers 16:1–3; Numbers 26:33
- 4 Joshua 17:4; Psalm 109:13; Exodus 32:11; Proverbs 13:9
- 5 Leviticus 24:12–13; Numbers 9:8; Exodus 25:22; Job 23:4; Proverbs 3:5–6
- 6 Psalm 68:5–6; Galatians 3:28
- 7 Jeremiah 49:11; Galatians 3:28; Numbers 36:1–2; Joshua 17:4; Psalm 68:5
- 11 Numbers 35:29; Jeremiah 32:8; Ruth 4:3–6; Leviticus 25:49; 1 Samuel 30:25
- 12 Deuteronomy 3:23–27; Deuteronomy 34:1–4; Numbers 33:47–48; Deuteronomy 32:48–52
- 13 Deuteronomy 10:6; Numbers 31:2; Numbers 20:24–28; Genesis 25:8; Deuteronomy 32:50
- 14 Deuteronomy 1:37; Numbers 20:8–13; Exodus 17:7; Deuteronomy 32:51–52; Psalm 106:32–33
- 16 Numbers 16:22; Jeremiah 3:15; Hebrews 12:9; Deuteronomy 31:14; Ezekiel 34:23
- 17 Ezekiel 34:5; Mark 6:34; 1 Kings 22:17; 2 Chronicles 1:10; Matthew 9:36
- 18 Deuteronomy 34:9; Genesis 41:38; Numbers 27:23; Deuteronomy 31:7–8; Judges 3:10
- 19 Deuteronomy 3:28; Deuteronomy 31:23; Deuteronomy 31:7–8; Colossians 4:17; 2 Timothy 4:1–6
- 20 Joshua 1:16–18; 1 Samuel 10:9; 1 Chronicles 29:25; 2 Kings 2:15; 2 Kings 2:9–10
- 21 Exodus 28:30; Joshua 9:14; 1 Samuel 28:6; Judges 1:1; Judges 20:18
- 23 Deuteronomy 3:28; Numbers 27:19; Deuteronomy 31:7–8
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XIX. "Take unto thee Joshua ('Iesoun) the son of Nun." For it was proper that Moses should lead the people out of Egypt, but that Jesus (Joshua) should lead them into the inheritance.
XX. "And he laid his hands upon him." The countenance of Joshua was also glorified by the imposition of the hands of Moses, but not to the same degree [as that of Moses].