New International Reader's Version

Numbers 27:7-12 New International Reader's Version (NIRV)

7. "What Zelophehad's daughters are saying is right. You must certainly give them property. Give them a share among their father's relatives. Turn their father's property over to them.

8. "Say to the people of Israel, 'Suppose a man dies who doesn't have a son. Then turn his property over to his daughter.

9. Suppose the man doesn't have a daughter. Then give his property to his brothers.

10. Suppose the man doesn't have any brothers. Then give his property to his father's brothers.

11. Suppose his father doesn't have any brothers. Then give his property to the nearest male relative in his family group. It will belong to him. That is what the law will require of the people of Israel. It is just as the Lord commanded me.' "

12. Then the Lord spoke to Moses. He said, "Go up this mountain in the Abarim range. See the land I have given the people of Israel.