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Numbers 26:55
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Notwithstanding, the land shall be divided by lot: according to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit.
Notwithstanding the land shall be divided by lot: according to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit.
Surely the land will be divided by lot. They will inherit according to the names of the tribes of their ancestors.
But the land shall be divided by lot. According to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit.
Divide the land by drawing lots, and the land each tribe gets will be named for that tribe.
The land must be divided by lot; and they will inherit in accordance with the names of their ancestral tribes.
"But the land shall be divided by lot. They shall receive their inheritance according to the names of the tribes of their fathers (tribal ancestors).
"But the land shall be divided by lot. They shall receive their inheritance according to the names of the tribes of their fathers.
Notwithstanding, the land shalbe deuided by lot: according to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherite:
But the land shall be divided by lot. They shall receive their inheritance according to the names of the tribes of their fathers.
However, the land is to be awarded by lot. They will inherit according to the names of the tribes of their ancestors,
Notwithstanding the land shall be divided by lot; according to the names of the tribes of their fathers shall they inherit;
But you must use lots to decide which tribe gets which part of the land. Each tribe will get its share of the land, and that land will be given the name of that tribe.
Notwithstanding the land shall be divided by lots; according to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit.
The land is to be divided by lot; they will receive an inheritance according to the names of their ancestral tribes.
But the land shall be divided by lot. They shall inherit according to the names of the tribes of their fathers.
yet shall the londe be deuyded by lott. Acordinge to ye names of the trybes of their fathers shal they enheret it:
Notwithstanding, the land shall be divided by lot: according to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit.
But let the distribution of the land be made by the decision of the Lord: by the names of the tribes of their fathers let their heritage be given them.
Notwithstanding, the lande shalbe deuided by lot, & according to the names of the tribes of their fathers, they shall inherite.
Notwithstanding the land shall be divided by lot; according to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit.
Notwithstanding the land shall bee diuided by lot: according to the names of the tribes of their fathers, they shall inherite.
The land shall be divided to the names by lot, they shall inherit according to the tribes of their families.
Notwithstanding the land shall be divided by lot: according to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit.
Indeed, the land must be divided by lot; they shall receive their inheritance according to the names of the tribes of their fathers.
so oneli that lot departe the lond to lynagis and meynees.
`Only by lot is the land apportioned, by the names of the tribes of their fathers they inherit;
Notwithstanding, the land shall be divided by lot: according to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit.
Notwithstanding, the land shall be divided by lot: according to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit.
Notwithstanding, the land shall be divided by lot: according to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit.
But the land shall be divided by lot; they shall inherit according to the names of the tribes of their fathers.
But you must assign the land by lot, and give land to each ancestral tribe according to the number of names on the list.
But the land should be divided by drawing names. They will receive their land by the names of the families of their fathers.
But the land shall be apportioned by lot; according to the names of their ancestral tribes they shall inherit.
Nevertheless by lot, shall the land be apportioned, - by the names of the tribes of their fathers, shall they inherit.
Yet so that by lot the land be divided to the tribe and families.
But the land shall be divided by lot; according to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit.
"Make sure that the land is assigned by lot. "Each group's inheritance is based on population, the number of names listed in its ancestral tribe, divided among the many and the few by lot."
"But the land shall be divided by lot. They shall receive their inheritance according to the names of the tribes of their fathers.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
by lot: Numbers 26:56, Numbers 33:54, Numbers 34:13, Joshua 11:23, Joshua 14:2, Joshua 17:14, Joshua 18:6, Joshua 18:10, Joshua 18:11, Joshua 19:1, Joshua 19:10, Joshua 19:17, Joshua 19:24, Joshua 19:32, Joshua 19:40, Proverbs 16:33, Proverbs 18:18, Acts 1:26, Colossians 1:12, Revelation 7:4-8
Reciprocal: Leviticus 16:8 - cast lots Numbers 36:2 - The Lord commanded Joshua 15:1 - This then was the lot Judges 21:17 - an inheritance
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Notwithstanding, the land shall be divided by lot,.... That the division might appear to be according to the determination and will of God, and not left to the judgment and discretion of the chief magistrate, though bound by the above rule:
according to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit; that is, according as to whatsoever name of a tribe such a part or portion of the land comes up by lot, that shall their inheritance be: Jarchi says, the names of the twelve tribes were written on twelve scrolls of parchment, and twelve borders or limits of land on twelve others, and they were mixed together in an urn, and the prince put his hand into it and took two scrolls; a scroll came up with the name of a tribe, and a scroll with a border or limit expressed on it; and the lot, he says, was by the Holy Ghost, for Eleazar, at the same time, was clothed with Urim and Thummim s; so that the people were certain that the disposition and division of the land was of God; but there were but nine tribes and a half, among whom the land of Canaan was divided, two tribes and a half settled on the other side Jordan, namely, the tribes of Reuben and Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh.
s Maimon. & Bartenora in Misn. Biccurim, c. 1. sect. 5.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Numbers 26:55. The land shall be divided by lot — The word גורל goral, translated lot, is supposed by some to signify the stone or pebble formerly used for the purpose of what we term casting lots. The word [Anglo-Saxon] hlot is Anglo-Saxon, from [Anglo-Saxon] to divide, or portion out, i. e., fortuitously: it answers to the Greek κληρος, which some think comes from κλαω to break; because the lot, being a sort of appeal to God, ("The lot is cast into the lap, but the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord," Proverbs 16:33,) broke off all contentions and litigations relative to the matter in dispute. From this original division of the promised land by lot to the children of Israel, all portions, appointments, offices, shares, or divisions in spiritual and ecclesiastical matters, were termed lots. So in the New Testament, the word κληρος, lot, is used to signify a portion of spiritual blessedness, and κληρονομια, a division by lot, an inheritance; and κληροι the lotted or appointed persons to different works, shares, c. hence our word clergy, κληροι, persons appointed by lot to a lot, portion, or inheritance; see the case of Matthias, Acts 1:26. Persons thus appointed were by accommodation termed inheritors, because originally, when there could be no claims of exclusive right, all lands where a wandering tribe chose to take up its residence were divided by lot, as the promised land in the case before us. So Judah says to Simeon his brother, Judges 1:3: "Come up with me into my lot." And as God was ever supposed to be the whole disposer in such matters, whatever fell out in the course of God's providence was called a lot. "This is the lot of them that rob us;" Isaiah 17:14. "Thou hast neither part nor lot in this matter;" Acts 8:21. A lot in the promised land was evidently typical of a place in eternal glory. "That they may receive forgiveness of sins, and an inheritance (κληρον, a lot) among them that are sanctified;" Acts 26:18. "Who hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance, κληρου, of the lot) of the saints in light;" Colossians 1:12. "Which is the earnest of our inheritance, (κληρονομιας, of our allotted portion;") Ephesians 1:4. "What is the riches of the glory of his inheritance," (κληρονομιας, allotted portion;) Ephesians 1:18. As therefore the promised land was divided by lot to the believing Israelites, God determining the lot as he saw good, none of the people having any claim on or right to it; so the kingdom of heaven is a lot given by the mere good will of God to them that believe and obey him; for as unbelief and disobedience threw 600,000 people out of the inheritance of the promised land; so none who disbelieve God's word, and rebel against his authority, shall ever enter into the kingdom of heaven. - See Ainsworth. These things happened unto them for examples: see then, reader, that thou fall not after the same example of unbelief.
