Numbers 26:55

Notwithstanding the land shall be divided by lot: according to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit.

Notwithstanding the land {H776} shall be divided {H2505} by lot {H1486}: according to the names {H8034} of the tribes {H4294} of their fathers {H1} they shall inherit {H5157}.

However, the land is to be awarded by lot. They will inherit according to the names of the tribes of their ancestors,

Indeed, the land must be divided by lot; they shall receive their inheritance according to the names of the tribes of their fathers.

Notwithstanding, the land shall be divided by lot: according to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit.

Commentary

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Cross-References

  • Numbers 34:13 (4 votes)

    And Moses commanded the children of Israel, saying, This [is] the land which ye shall inherit by lot, which the LORD commanded to give unto the nine tribes, and to the half tribe:

  • Numbers 33:54 (4 votes)

    And ye shall divide the land by lot for an inheritance among your families: [and] to the more ye shall give the more inheritance, and to the fewer ye shall give the less inheritance: every man's [inheritance] shall be in the place where his lot falleth; according to the tribes of your fathers ye shall inherit.

  • Joshua 11:23 (3 votes)

    So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the LORD said unto Moses; and Joshua gave it for an inheritance unto Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. And the land rested from war.

  • Joshua 14:2 (3 votes)

    By lot [was] their inheritance, as the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses, for the nine tribes, and [for] the half tribe.

  • Acts 1:26 (2 votes)

    And they gave forth their lots; and the lot fell upon Matthias; and he was numbered with the eleven apostles.

  • Joshua 18:10 (2 votes)

    And Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before the LORD: and there Joshua divided the land unto the children of Israel according to their divisions.

  • Joshua 18:11 (2 votes)

    ¶ And the lot of the tribe of the children of Benjamin came up according to their families: and the coast of their lot came forth between the children of Judah and the children of Joseph.