The lot is cast into the lap, but its every decision is from the Lord.
Numbers 26:55 - New International Version (Anglicised) Be sure that the land is distributed by lot. What each group inherits will be according to the names for its ancestral tribe. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Notwithstanding the land shall be divided by lot: according to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition But the land shall be divided by lot; according to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit. American Standard Version (1901) Notwithstanding, the land shall be divided by lot: according to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit. Common English Bible The land, however, will be apportioned by lot. They will inherit according to the names of their ancestral tribes. Catholic Public Domain Version Yet only in so far as the land is divided by lot to a tribe and to families. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Yet so that by lot the land be divided to the tribe and families. |
The lot is cast into the lap, but its every decision is from the Lord.
You are to allot it as an inheritance for yourselves and for the foreigners residing among you and who have children. You are to consider them as native-born Israelites; along with you they are to be allotted an inheritance among the tribes of Israel.
Each inheritance is to be distributed by lot among the larger and smaller groups.’
Distribute the land by lot, according to your clans. To a larger group give a larger inheritance, and to a smaller group a smaller one. Whatever falls to them by lot will be theirs. Distribute it according to your ancestral tribes.
Moses commanded the Israelites: ‘Assign this land by lot as an inheritance. The Lord has ordered that it be given to the nine-and-a-half tribes,
They said, ‘When the Lord commanded my lord to give the land as an inheritance to the Israelites by lot, he ordered you to give the inheritance of our brother Zelophehad to his daughters.
Then they cast lots, and the lot fell to Matthias; so he was added to the eleven apostles.
and giving joyful thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of his holy people in the kingdom of light.
So Joshua took the entire land, just as the Lord had directed Moses, and he gave it as an inheritance to Israel according to their tribal divisions. Then the land had rest from war.
Their inheritances were assigned by lot to the nine-and-a-half tribes, as the Lord had commanded through Moses.
The people of Joseph said to Joshua, ‘Why have you allotted us only one portion of land and one share for an inheritance? We are a numerous people, and the Lord has blessed us abundantly.’
After you have written descriptions of the seven parts of the land, bring them here to me and I will cast lots for you in the presence of the Lord our God.
The second lot came out for the tribe of Simeon according to its clans. Their inheritance lay within the territory of Judah.
The third lot came up for Zebulun according to its clans: The boundary of their inheritance went as far as Sarid.
The fifth lot came out for the tribe of Asher according to its clans.
The seventh lot came out for the tribe of Dan according to its clans.