Moreover, when ye shall divide by lot the land for inheritance, ye shall offer an oblation unto the LORD, an holy portion of the land: the length shall be the length of five and twenty thousand reeds, and the breadth shall be ten thousand. This shall be holy in all the borders thereof round about.
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Gill's Exposition
Moreover, when ye shall divide by lot the land, for inheritance,.... This is not to be understood literally of the division of the land of Israel; which agrees not with the division of it begun by…
Barnes' Notes
By lot - Not by casting lots, but by “allotment,” the several portions being assigned by rule Jos 13:6. Oblation - The oblation (properly “heaveoffering”) was regarded as the Lord’s portion Lev 27:30.…
Adam Clarke
When ye shall divide by lot - That is, when on your repossessing your land, every family settles according to the allotment which they formerly had; for it is certain that the land was not divided…
Directions are here given for the dividing of the land after their return to it; and, God having warranted them to do it, would be an act of faith, and not of folly, thus to divide it before they had…
Cambridge Bible
divideby lot] So the phrase originally signified, but probably it came to mean merely "divide" or assign portions to. Ezek. definitely fixes the positions of the tribes, and each tribe appears to have…
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