55 But the land shall be (A)divided by lot; they shall inherit according to the names of the tribes of their fathers.

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55 Be sure that the land is distributed by lot.(A) What each group inherits will be according to the names for its ancestral tribe.

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54 And (A)you shall divide the land by lot as an inheritance among your families; to the larger you shall give a larger inheritance, and to the smaller you shall give a smaller inheritance; there everyone’s inheritance shall be whatever falls to him by lot. You shall inherit according to the tribes of your fathers.

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54 Distribute the land by lot,(A) according to your clans.(B) To a larger group give a larger inheritance, and to a smaller group a smaller one.(C) Whatever falls to them by lot will be theirs. Distribute it according to your ancestral tribes.(D)

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And they came near before (A)Eleazar the priest, before Joshua the son of Nun, and before the rulers, saying, (B)“The Lord commanded Moses to give us an [a]inheritance among our brothers.” Therefore, according to the commandment of the Lord, he gave them an inheritance among their father’s brothers.

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Footnotes

  1. Joshua 17:4 possession

They went to Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the leaders and said, “The Lord commanded Moses to give us an inheritance among our relatives.” So Joshua gave them an inheritance along with the brothers of their father, according to the Lord’s command.(A)

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