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- Verse 55
Numbers 26:55
Notwithstanding the land shall be divided by lot: according to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit.
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If any ask why such a particular account is kept of the tribes, and families, and numbers, of the people of Israel, here is an answer for them; as they were multiplied, so they were portioned, not by…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
the land shall be divided by lot Since the distribution was to be proportionate the purpose of the lot must only have been to decide roughly in what part of the country each tribe was to…
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