Numbers 27:5

5 So Moses brought their case before the LORD,

Numbers 27:5 in Other Translations

King James Version (KJV)
5 And Moses brought their cause before the LORD.
English Standard Version (ESV)
5 Moses brought their case before the LORD.
New Living Translation (NLT)
5 So Moses brought their case before the LORD .
The Message Bible (MSG)
5 Moses brought their case to God.
American Standard Version (ASV)
5 And Moses brought their cause before Jehovah.
GOD'S WORD Translation (GW)
5 So Moses brought their case to the LORD,
Holman Christian Standard Bible (CSB)
5 Moses brought their case before the Lord,
New International Reader's Version (NIRV)
5 So Moses brought their case to the Lord.

Numbers 27:5 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 27:5

And Moses brought their cause before the Lord.
] For it seems it was too difficult for this court to decide; and it devolving upon Moses, as the president of it, and who only could have recourse to God at all times, he carried it to him and consulted with him about it: this, as the Targums of Jonathan and Jerusalem say, was one of the four causes that came before Moses the prophet, that he solved according to the mind of the Lord, which he consulted; one was concerning the blasphemer, ( Leviticus 24:11 ) , the other concerning those defiled by the dead, ( Numbers 9:8 ) , the third concerning the sabbath breaker, ( Numbers 15:34 ) and the fourth was this; (See Gill on Leviticus 24:12).

Numbers 27:5 In-Context

3 “Our father died in the wilderness. He was not among Korah’s followers, who banded together against the LORD, but he died for his own sin and left no sons.
4 Why should our father’s name disappear from his clan because he had no son? Give us property among our father’s relatives.”
5 So Moses brought their case before the LORD,
6 and the LORD said to him,
7 “What Zelophehad’s daughters are saying is right. You must certainly give them property as an inheritance among their father’s relatives and give their father’s inheritance to them.

Cross References 2

  • 1. S Genesis 25:22; S Exodus 18:19
  • 2. S Numbers 9:8
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