Joshua 18:6

New American Bible - revised edition

You shall bring to me here the description of the land in seven sections. I will then cast lots for you here before the Lord, our God.

Cross References

Psalm 105:11

“To you I give the land of Canaan, your own allotted inheritance.”

Proverbs 16:33

Into the bag the lot is cast, but from the Lord comes every decision.

Proverbs 18:18

The lot puts an end to disputes, and decides a controversy between the mighty.

Numbers 33:54

You will apportion the land among yourselves by lot, clan by clan, assigning a large heritage to a large clan and a small heritage to a small clan. Wherever anyone’s lot falls, there will his possession be; you will apportion these shares within your ancestral tribe.

Numbers 34:13

Moses also gave this order to the Israelites: “This is the land, to be apportioned among you by lot, which the Lord has commanded to be given to the nine and a half tribes.

Acts 13:19

When he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, he gave them their land as an inheritance

Joshua 14:2

their heritage by lot, as the Lord had commanded through Moses concerning the remaining nine and a half tribes.

Joshua 18:10

Joshua then cast lots for them before the Lord in Shiloh, and divided up the land for the Israelites into their separate shares. Benjamin.

Joshua 18:7

For the Levites have no share among you, because the priesthood of the Lord is their heritage; while Gad, Reuben, and the half-tribe of Manasseh have already received the heritage east of the Jordan which Moses, the servant of the Lord, gave them.”

Joshua 18:8

When those who were to describe the land were ready for their journey, Joshua commanded them, “Go throughout the land and describe it; return to me and I will cast lots for you here before the Lord in Shiloh.”