Numbers 27:8

[daraku]

“If a man dies and leaves no son, turn his inheritance over to his daughter.” -Numbers 27:8

Does this mean, if a man dies but he has a son, all of his wealth will go to his son? What about his daughter?

 

[puzzleannie]

that means this passage describes inheritance laws that were in effect for the Hebrew people at that time in history. it means nothing whatever in modern civil law.

 

[daraku]

that means this passage describes inheritance laws that were in effect for the Hebrew people at that time in history. it means nothing whatever in modern civil law.

so it is not applicable in our present time?

 

[COPLAND_3]

St. Thomas Aquinas says,

The Law did not prescribe that women should succeed to their father’s estate except in default of male issue: failing which it was necessary that succession should be granted to the female line in order to comfort the father, who would have been sad to think that his estate would pass to strangers. Nevertheless the Law observed due caution in the matter, by providing that those women who succeeded to their father’s estate, should marry within their own tribe, in order to avoid confusion of tribal possessions, as stated in Numbers 36:7-8.

Notice this is under the old Law, we follow the New Law, the Law of Christ.