Keil and Delitzsch Commentary - Numbers 27:8

Keil and Delitzsch Commentary - Numbers 27:8 - 27:8

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Keil and Delitzsch Commentary - Numbers 27:8 - 27:8

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27:1 - 27:1
27:5 - 27:5
27:8 - 27:8
27:12 - 27:12
27:15 - 27:15
27:18 - 27:18
27:22 - 27:22

On this occasion God issued a general law of inheritance, which was to apply to all cases as “a statute of judgment” (or right), i.e., a statute determining right. If any one died without leaving a son, his landed property was to pass to his daughter (or daughters); in default of daughters, to his brothers; in the absence of brothers, to his paternal uncles; and if there were none of them, to his next of kin. - On the intention of this law, see my Archaeol. §142 (ii. pp. 212, 213); and on the law of inheritance generally, see J. Selden, de success. ad leges Hebr. in bona defunctorum, Fkft. a. O. 1695.