Why should the name of our father be taken away from his clan because he had no son? Give to us a possession among our father's brothers.”
They approached Eleazar the priest and Joshua the son of Nun and the leaders and said, “The Lord commanded Moses to give us an inheritance along with our brothers.” So according to the mouth of the Lord he gave them an inheritance among the brothers of their father.
May his posterity be cut off; may his name be blotted out in the second generation!
But Moses implored the Lord his God and said, “O Lord, why does your wrath burn hot against your people, whom you have brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?
The light of the righteous rejoices, but the lamp of the wicked will be put out.
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