Claims of Zelophehad's Daughters to an Inheritance in the Promised Land. - Num 27:1-4. The divine instructions which were given at the mustering of the tribes, to the effect that the land was to be divided among the t…
1Vinieron las hijas de Zelofehad hijo de Hefer, hijo de Galaad, hijo de Maquir, hijo de Manasés, de las familias de Manasés hijo de José, los nombres de las cuales eran Maala, Noa, Hogla, Milca y Tirsa;
2y se presentaron delante de Moisés y delante del sacerdote Eleazar, y delante de los príncipes y de toda la congregación, a la puerta del tabernáculo de reunión, y dijeron:
3Nuestro padre murió en el desierto; y él no estuvo en la compañía de los que se juntaron contra Jehová en el grupo de Coré, sino que en su propio pecado murió, y no tuvo hijos.
4¿Por qué será quitado el nombre de nuestro padre de entre su familia, por no haber tenido hijo? Danos heredad entre los hermanos de nuestro padre.
5Y Moisés llevó su causa delante de Jehová.
6Y Jehová respondió a Moisés, diciendo:
7Bien dicen las hijas de Zelofehad; les darás la posesión de una heredad entre los hermanos de su padre, y traspasarás la heredad de su padre a ellas.
8Y a los hijos de Israel hablarás, diciendo: Cuando alguno muriere sin hijos, traspasaréis su herencia a su hija.
9Si no tuviere hija, daréis su herencia a sus hermanos;
10y si no tuviere hermanos, daréis su herencia a los hermanos de su padre.
11Y si su padre no tuviere hermanos, daréis su herencia a su pariente más cercano de su linaje, y de este será; y para los hijos de Israel esto será por estatuto de derecho, como Jehová mandó a Moisés.
12Jehová dijo a Moisés: Sube a este monte Abarim, y verás la tierra que he dado a los hijos de Israel.
13Y después que la hayas visto, tú también serás reunido a tu pueblo, como fue reunido tu hermano Aarón.
14Pues fuisteis rebeldes a mi mandato en el desierto de Zin, en la rencilla de la congregación, no santificándome en las aguas a ojos de ellos. Estas son las aguas de la rencilla de Cades en el desierto de Zin.
15Entonces respondió Moisés a Jehová, diciendo:
16Ponga Jehová, Dios de los espíritus de toda carne, un varón sobre la congregación,
17que salga delante de ellos y que entre delante de ellos, que los saque y los introduzca, para que la congregación de Jehová no sea como ovejas sin pastor.
18Y Jehová dijo a Moisés: Toma a Josué hijo de Nun, varón en el cual hay espíritu, y pondrás tu mano sobre él;
19y lo pondrás delante del sacerdote Eleazar, y delante de toda la congregación; y le darás el cargo en presencia de ellos.
20Y pondrás de tu dignidad sobre él, para que toda la congregación de los hijos de Israel le obedezca.
21Él se pondrá delante del sacerdote Eleazar, y le consultará por el juicio del Urim delante de Jehová; por el dicho de él saldrán, y por el dicho de él entrarán, él y todos los hijos de Israel con él, y toda la congregación.
22Y Moisés hizo como Jehová le había mandado, pues tomó a Josué y lo puso delante del sacerdote Eleazar, y de toda la congregación;
23y puso sobre él sus manos, y le dio el cargo, como Jehová había mandado por mano de Moisés.
CARL FRIEDRICH KEIL AND FRANZ DELITZSCH OLD TESTAMENT COMMENTARY
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I. This question of right (Mishpat) Moses brought before God, and received instructions in reply to …
This question of right (Mishpat) Moses brought before God, and received instructions in reply to give the daughters of Zelophehad an inheritance among the brethren of their father, as they had spoken right. Further instructions were added afterwards in Num 36:1-13 in relation to the marriage of heiresses.
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II. On this occasion God issued a general law of inheritance, which was to apply to all cases as "a s…
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.
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III. The Death of Moses Foretold. - After these instructions concerning the division of the land, the …
The Death of Moses Foretold. - After these instructions concerning the division of the land, the Lord announced to Moses his approaching end. From the mountains of Abarim he was to see the land which the Israelites would receive, and then like Aaron to be gathered to his people, because like him he also had sinned at the water of strife at Kadesh. This announcement was made, "that he might go forward to his death with the fullest consciousness, and might set his house in order, that is to say, might finish as much as he could while still alive, and provide as much as possible what would make up after his death for the absence of his own person, upon which the whole house of Israel was now so dependent" (Baumgarten). The fulfilment of this announcement is described in Deu 32:48-52. The particular spot upon the mountains of Abarim from which Moses saw the land of Canaan, is also minutely described there. It was Mount Nebo, upon which he also died. The mountains of Abarim (cf. Num 33:47) are the mountain range forming the Moabitish table-land, which slope off into the steppes of Moab. It is upon this range, the northern portion of which opposite to Jericho bore the name of Pisgah, that we are to look for Mount Nebo, which is sometimes described as one of the mountains of Abarim (Deu 32:49), and at other times as the top of Pisgah (Deu 3:27; Deu 34:1; see at Num 21:20). Nebo is not to be identified with Jebel Attarus, but to be sought for much farther to the north, since, according to Eusebius (s. v. Ἀβαρείμ), it was opposite to Jericho, between Livias, which was in the valley of the Jordan nearly opposite to Jericho, and Heshbon; consequently very near to the point which is marked as the "Heights of Nebo" on Van de Velde's map. The prospect from the heights of Nebo must have been a very extensive one. According to Burckhardt (Syr. ii. pp. 106-7), "even the city of Heshbon (Hhuzban) itself stood upon so commanding an eminence, that the view extended at least thirty English miles in all directions, and towards the south probably as far as sixty miles." On the expression, "gathered unto thy people," see at Gen 25:8, and on Aaron's death see Num 20:28. מריתם כּאשׁר: "as ye transgressed My commandment." By the double use of כּאשׁר (quomodo, "as"), the death of Aaron, and also that of Moses, are placed in a definite relation to the sin of these two heads of Israel. As they both sinned at Kadesh against the commandment of the Lord, so they were both of them to die without entering the land of Canaan. On the sin, see at Num 20:12-13, and on the desert of Zin, at Num 13:21.
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IV. Consecration of Joshua as the Successor of Moses. - Num 27:15-17. The announcement thus made to M…
Consecration of Joshua as the Successor of Moses. - Num 27:15-17. The announcement thus made to Moses led him to entreat the Lord to appoint a leader of His people, that the congregation might not be like a flock without a shepherd. As "God of the spirits of all flesh," i.e., as the giver of life and breath to all creatures (see at Num 16:22), he asks Jehovah to appoint a man over the congregation, who should go out and in before them, and should lead them out and in, i.e., preside over and direct them in all their affairs. ובוא צאת ("go out," and "go in") is a description of the conduct of men in every-day life (Deu 28:6; Deu 31:2; Jos 14:11). והביא הוציא ("lead out," and "bring in") signifies the superintendence of the affairs of the nation, and is founded upon the figure of a shepherd.
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V. The Lord then appointed Joshua to this office as a man "who had spirit." רוּה (spirit) does not m…
The Lord then appointed Joshua to this office as a man "who had spirit." רוּה (spirit) does not mean "insight and wisdom" (Knobel), but the higher power inspired by God into the soul, which quickens the moral and religious life, and determines its development; in this case, therefore, it was the spiritual endowment requisite for the office he was called to fill. Moses was to consecrate him for entering upon this office by the laying on of hands, or, as is more fully explained in Num 27:19 and Num 27:20, he was to set him before Eleazar the high priest and the congregation, to command (צוּה) him, i.e., instruct him with regard to his office before their eyes, and to lay of his eminence (הוד) upon him, i.e., to transfer a portion of his own dignity and majesty to him by the imposition of hands, that the whole congregation might hearken to him, or trust to his guidance. The object to ישׁמעוּ (hearken) must be supplied from the context, viz., אליו (to him), as Deu 34:9 clearly shows. The מן (of) in Num 27:20 is partitive, as in Gen 4:4, etc. The eminence and authority of Moses were not to be entirely transferred to Joshua, for they were bound up with his own person alone (cf. Num 12:6-8), but only so much of it as he needed for the discharge of the duties of his office. Joshua was to be neither the lawgiver nor the absolute governor of Israel, but to be placed under the judgment of the Urim, with which Eleazar was entrusted, so far as the supreme decision of the affairs of Israel was concerned. This is the meaning of Num 27:21 : "Eleazar shall ask to him (for him) the judgment of the Urim before Jehovah." Urim is an abbreviation for Urim and Thummim (Exo 28:30), and denotes the means with which the high priest was entrusted of ascertaining the divine will and counsel in all the important business of the congregation. "After his mouth" (i.e., according to the decision of the high priest, by virtue of the right of Urim and Thummim entrusted to him), Joshua and the whole congregation were to go out and in, i.e., to regulate their conduct and decide upon their undertakings. "All the congregation," in distinction from 'all the children of Israel," denotes the whole body of heads of the people, or the college of elders, which represented the congregation and administered its affairs.
Antiguo Testamento
Numbers — Capítulo 27
Claims of Zelophehad's Daughters to an Inheritance in the Promised Land. - Num 27:1-4. The divine instructions which were given at the mustering of the tribes, to the effect that the land was to be divided among the t…
Texto — Reina-Valera 1960
1Vinieron las hijas de Zelofehad hijo de Hefer, hijo de Galaad, hijo de Maquir, hijo de Manasés, de las familias de Manasés hijo de José, los nombres de las cuales eran Maala, Noa, Hogla, Milca y Tirsa;
2y se presentaron delante de Moisés y delante del sacerdote Eleazar, y delante de los príncipes y de toda la congregación, a la puerta del tabernáculo de reunión, y dijeron:
3Nuestro padre murió en el desierto; y él no estuvo en la compañía de los que se juntaron contra Jehová en el grupo de Coré, sino que en su propio pecado murió, y no tuvo hijos.
4¿Por qué será quitado el nombre de nuestro padre de entre su familia, por no haber tenido hijo? Danos heredad entre los hermanos de nuestro padre.
5Y Moisés llevó su causa delante de Jehová.
6Y Jehová respondió a Moisés, diciendo:
7Bien dicen las hijas de Zelofehad; les darás la posesión de una heredad entre los hermanos de su padre, y traspasarás la heredad de su padre a ellas.
8Y a los hijos de Israel hablarás, diciendo: Cuando alguno muriere sin hijos, traspasaréis su herencia a su hija.
9Si no tuviere hija, daréis su herencia a sus hermanos;
10y si no tuviere hermanos, daréis su herencia a los hermanos de su padre.
11Y si su padre no tuviere hermanos, daréis su herencia a su pariente más cercano de su linaje, y de este será; y para los hijos de Israel esto será por estatuto de derecho, como Jehová mandó a Moisés.
12Jehová dijo a Moisés: Sube a este monte Abarim, y verás la tierra que he dado a los hijos de Israel.
13Y después que la hayas visto, tú también serás reunido a tu pueblo, como fue reunido tu hermano Aarón.
14Pues fuisteis rebeldes a mi mandato en el desierto de Zin, en la rencilla de la congregación, no santificándome en las aguas a ojos de ellos. Estas son las aguas de la rencilla de Cades en el desierto de Zin.
15Entonces respondió Moisés a Jehová, diciendo:
16Ponga Jehová, Dios de los espíritus de toda carne, un varón sobre la congregación,
17que salga delante de ellos y que entre delante de ellos, que los saque y los introduzca, para que la congregación de Jehová no sea como ovejas sin pastor.
18Y Jehová dijo a Moisés: Toma a Josué hijo de Nun, varón en el cual hay espíritu, y pondrás tu mano sobre él;
19y lo pondrás delante del sacerdote Eleazar, y delante de toda la congregación; y le darás el cargo en presencia de ellos.
20Y pondrás de tu dignidad sobre él, para que toda la congregación de los hijos de Israel le obedezca.
21Él se pondrá delante del sacerdote Eleazar, y le consultará por el juicio del Urim delante de Jehová; por el dicho de él saldrán, y por el dicho de él entrarán, él y todos los hijos de Israel con él, y toda la congregación.
22Y Moisés hizo como Jehová le había mandado, pues tomó a Josué y lo puso delante del sacerdote Eleazar, y de toda la congregación;
23y puso sobre él sus manos, y le dio el cargo, como Jehová había mandado por mano de Moisés.
CARL FRIEDRICH KEIL AND FRANZ DELITZSCH OLD TESTAMENT COMMENTARY
Versículo 5
I. This question of right (Mishpat) Moses brought before God, and received instructions in reply to …
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II. On this occasion God issued a general law of inheritance, which was to apply to all cases as "a s…
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III. The Death of Moses Foretold. - After these instructions concerning the division of the land, the …
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IV. Consecration of Joshua as the Successor of Moses. - Num 27:15-17. The announcement thus made to M…
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V. The Lord then appointed Joshua to this office as a man "who had spirit." רוּה (spirit) does not m…
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VI. Execution of the divine command.