¹⁷ There must be heirs for the survivors so that an entire tribe of Israel is not wiped out.

⁷ None of the territorial land may pass from tribe to tribe, for all the land given to each tribe must remain within the tribe to which it was first allotted.

⁵⁵ But you must assign the land by lot, and give land to each ancestral tribe according to the number of names on the list.