The men said to each other, “Y’all come! Let’s cast lots to find out who is responsible for this evil upon us.” So they cast lots, and the lot fell on Jonah.
The princes of the people lived in Jerusalem. The rest of the people also cast lots to bring one of ten to dwell in Jerusalem, the holy city, and nine parts in the other cities.
They are to divide it into seven portions. Judah will live in his borders on the south, and the house of Joseph will live in their borders on the north.
In the morning y’all are to approach in order of y’all’s tribes. The tribe that YHWH selects will approach by clan. Then the clan that YHWH selects must approach by households. The household that YHWH selects must approach man by man.
But y’all have today rejected your* God, who ʜɪᴍꜱᴇʟꜰ saves y’all out of all your* calamities and distresses. But y’all have said to him, ‘No! Set a king over us!’ Now therefore present yourselves before YHWH by y’all’s tribes and by clans.”
For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination. He shook the arrows back and forth. He consulted the teraphim. He looked in the liver.
