of the nation under God: to give the land for an inheritance by lot to the children of Israel; which command may be seen, in Num 26:53 , and my lord was commanded by the Lord to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother; or kinsman, being of the same tribe: unto his daughters; who sued for it, and upon Moses's consulting the Lord about it, it was ordered they should have it, Num 27:1 and which these princes observed was likely to be attended with the following inconvenience.