Numbers 27:4

Give unto us - As representing our father; that so he, through us his representatives, may enjoy a like inheritance with his brethren.

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⁴ Why should the name of our father be done away from among his family, because he hath no son? Give unto us therefore a possession among the brethren of our father.

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Numbers 27:4