Numbers 27:4

Be done away As it will be, if it be not preserved by an inheritance given to us in his name and for his sake. Hence some gather, that the first son of each of these heiresses was called by their father's name, by virtue of that law, (Deuteronomy 25:6,) by which the brother's first son was to bear the name of his elder brother, whose widow he married. Give us a possession In the land of Canaan, upon the division of it, which, though not yet conquered, they concluded would certainly be so, and thereby they gave glory to God.