Bilangan 27:2-5

27:2 And they stood before Moses and Eleazar the priest and the leaders of the whole assembly at the entrance to the tent of meeting and said, 27:3 “Our father died in the wilderness, although ¹  he was not part of ²  the company of those that gathered themselves together against the Lord in the company of Korah; but he died for his own sin, ³  and he had no sons. 27:4 Why should the name of our father be lost from among his family because he had no son? Give us a possession ⁴  among the relatives ⁵  of our father.”

27:5 So Moses brought their case before the Lord.

[27:3]  ¹ 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.

[27:3]  ² tn Heb “in the midst of.”

[27:3]  ³ tn The word order is emphatic: “but in/on account of his own sins he died.”

[27:4]  ⁴ tn That is, the possession of land, or property, among the other families of their tribe.

[27:4]  ⁵ tn The word is “brothers,” but this can be interpreted more loosely to relatives. So also in v. 7.