Numbers 26:54
To a larger group you will give a larger inheritance, and to a smaller group you will give a smaller inheritance. To each one its inheritance must be given according to the number of people in it.
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- Num 33:54 : 54 You must divide the land by lot for an inheritance among your families. To a larger group you must give a larger inheritance, and to a smaller group you must give a smaller inheritance. Everyone’s inheritance must be in the place where his lot falls. You must inherit according to your ancestral tribes.
- Josh 17:14 : 14 The descendants of Joseph said to Joshua,“Why have you assigned us only one tribal allotment? After all, we have many people, for until now the LORD has enabled us to increase in number.”
- Num 32:3 : 3 “Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sebam, Nebo, and Beon,
- Num 32:5 : 5 So they said,“If we have found favor in your sight, let this land be given to your servants for our inheritance. Do not have us cross the Jordan River.”
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- Num 26:52-532 verses88%
52 Then the LORD spoke to Moses:
53 “To these the land must be divided as an inheritance according to the number of the names.
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54 You must divide the land by lot for an inheritance among your families. To a larger group you must give a larger inheritance, and to a smaller group you must give a smaller inheritance. Everyone’s inheritance must be in the place where his lot falls. You must inherit according to your ancestral tribes.
- Num 26:55-562 verses84%
55 The land must be divided by lot; and they will inherit in accordance with the names of their ancestral tribes.
56 Their inheritance must be apportioned by lot among the larger and smaller groups.”
- Num 35:8-92 verses79%
8 The towns you will give must be from the possession of the Israelites. From the larger tribes you must give more; and from the smaller tribes fewer. Each must contribute some of its own towns to the Levites in proportion to the inheritance allocated to each.
9 The Cities of Refuge Then the LORD spoke to Moses:
- Ezek 47:13-142 verses76%
13 Boundaries for the Land This is what the Sovereign LORD says:“Here are the borders you will observe as you allot the land to the twelve tribes of Israel.(Joseph will have two portions.)
14 You must divide it equally just as I vowed to give it to your forefathers; this land will be assigned as your inheritance.
- Num 34:17-182 verses75%
17 “These are the names of the men who are to allocate the land to you as an inheritance: Eleazar the priest and Joshua son of Nun.
18 You must take one leader from every tribe to assist in allocating the land as an inheritance.
- Ezek 47:21-233 verses74%
21 “This is how you will divide this land for yourselves among the tribes of Israel.
22 You must allot it as an inheritance among yourselves and for the resident foreigners who live among you, who have fathered sons among you. You must treat them as native-born among the people of Israel; they will be allotted an inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel.
23 In whatever tribe the resident foreigner lives, there you will give him his inheritance,” declares the Sovereign LORD.
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18 saying,“To you I will give the land of Canaan as the portion of your inheritance.”
- Num 27:9-113 verses74%
9 and if he has no daughter, then you are to give his inheritance to his brothers;
10 and if he has no brothers, then you are to give his inheritance to his father’s brothers;
11 and if his father has no brothers, then you are to give his inheritance to his relative nearest to him from his family, and he will possess it. This will be for the Israelites a legal requirement, as the LORD commanded Moses.’”
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11 saying,“To you I will give the land of Canaan as the portion of your inheritance.”
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29 These are the ones whom the LORD commanded to divide up the inheritance among the Israelites in the land of Canaan.
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4 And when the Jubilee of the Israelites is to take place, their inheritance will be added to the inheritance of the tribe into which they marry. So their inheritance will be taken away from the inheritance of our ancestral tribe.”
- Num 34:13-142 verses73%
13 Then Moses commanded the Israelites:“This is the land which you will inherit by lot, which the LORD has commanded to be given to the nine and a half tribes,
14 because the tribe of the Reubenites by their families, the tribe of the Gadites by their families, and the half-tribe of Manasseh have received their inheritance.
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29 This is the land which you will allot to the tribes of Israel, and these are their portions, declares the Sovereign LORD.
- Josh 14:1-33 verses71%
1 Judah’s Tribal Lands The following is a record of the territory assigned to the Israelites in the land of Canaan by Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the Israelite tribal leaders.
2 The land assignments to the nine and a half tribes were made by drawing lots, as the LORD had instructed Moses.
3 Now Moses had assigned land to the two and a half tribes east of the Jordan, but he assigned no land to the Levites.
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51 These are the land assignments which Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the Israelite tribal leaders made by drawing lots in Shiloh before the LORD at the entrance of the tent of meeting. So they finished dividing up the land.
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12 You must do so for each one according to the number that you prepare.
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2 “Give these instructions to the Israelites, and tell them:‘When you enter Canaan, the land that has been assigned to you as an inheritance, the land of Canaan with its borders,
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17 He assigns them their allotment; he measures out their assigned place. They will live there permanently; they will settle in it through successive generations.
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9 No inheritance may pass from tribe to tribe. But every one of the tribes of the Israelites must retain its inheritance.”
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4 They went before Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the leaders and said,“The LORD told Moses to assign us land among our relatives.” So Joshua assigned them land among their uncles, as the LORD had commanded.
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8 He must eat the same share they do, despite any profits he may gain from the sale of his family’s inheritance.
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7 In this way the inheritance of the Israelites will not be transferred from tribe to tribe. But every one of the Israelites must retain the ancestral heritage.
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26 ‘I tell you that everyone who has will be given more, but from the one who does not have, even what he has will be taken away.
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2 They will have no inheritance in the midst of their fellow Israelites; the LORD alone is their inheritance, just as he had told them.
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4 See, I have parceled out to your tribes these remaining nations, from the Jordan to the Mediterranean Sea in the west, including all the nations I defeated.
- Deut 32:8-92 verses70%
8 When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, when he divided up humankind, he set the boundaries of the peoples, according to the number of the heavenly assembly.
9 For the LORD’s allotment is his people, Jacob is his special possession.
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7 Now, divide up this land among the nine tribes and the half-tribe of Manasseh.”
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30 From the Israelites’ half-share you are to take one portion out of fifty of the people, the cattle, the donkeys, and the sheep– from every kind of animal– and you are to give them to the Levites, who are responsible for the care of the LORD’s tabernacle.”
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28 “‘This will be their inheritance: I am their inheritance, and you must give them no property in Israel; I am their property.
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20 Duties of the Levites The LORD spoke to Aaron,“You will have no inheritance in their land, nor will you have any portion of property among them– I am your portion and your inheritance among the Israelites.
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24 “Son of man, the ones living in these ruins in the land of Israel are saying,‘Abraham was only one man, yet he possessed the land, but we are many; surely the land has been given to us for a possession.’
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27 Divide the plunder into two parts, one for those who took part in the war– who went out to battle– and the other for all the community.
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5 Divide it into seven regions. Judah will stay in its territory in the south, and the family of Joseph in its territory in the north.
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33 However, Moses did not assign land as an inheritance to the Levites; their inheritance is the LORD God of Israel, as he instructed them.
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24 Who will listen to you in this matter? The portion of the one who went down into the battle will be the same as the portion of the one who remained with the equipment! Let their portions be the same!”
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7 “The daughters of Zelophehad have a valid claim. You must indeed give them possession of an inheritance among their father’s relatives, and you must transfer the inheritance of their father to them.