¹⁷ And they said, “There must be heirs for the survivors of Benjamin, in order that a tribe may not be blotted out from Israel.

⁷ so that no inheritance of the Israelites shall be transferred from one tribe to another, for all Israelites shall retain the inheritance of their ancestral tribes.

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