“Why should the name of our father be taken away from among his family, because he had no son? Give to us a possession among the brothers of our father.””

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Numbers 27 contains 23 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.