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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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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56 Each inheritance is to be distributed by lot among the larger and smaller groups.”

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56 According to the lot shall the possession thereof be divided between many and few.

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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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54 And ye shall divide the land by lot for an inheritance among your families: and to the more ye shall give the more inheritance, and to the fewer ye shall give the less inheritance: every man's inheritance shall be in the place where his lot falleth; according to the tribes of your fathers ye shall inherit.

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13 Moses commanded the Israelites: “Assign this land by lot(A) as an inheritance.(B) The Lord has ordered that it be given to the nine and a half tribes,

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13 And Moses commanded the children of Israel, saying, This is the land which ye shall inherit by lot, which the Lord commanded to give unto the nine tribes, and to the half tribe:

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Their inheritances were assigned by lot(A) to the nine and a half tribes,(B) as the Lord had commanded through Moses.

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By lot was their inheritance, as the Lord commanded by the hand of Moses, for the nine tribes, and for the half tribe.

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After you have written descriptions of the seven parts of the land, bring them here to me and I will cast lots(A) for you in the presence of the Lord our God.

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Ye shall therefore describe the land into seven parts, and bring the description hither to me, that I may cast lots for you here before the Lord our God.

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But now this is what we’ll do to Gibeah: We’ll go up against it in the order decided by casting lots.(A)

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But now this shall be the thing which we will do to Gibeah; we will go up by lot against it;

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34 “We—the priests, the Levites and the people—have cast lots(A) to determine when each of our families is to bring to the house of our God at set times each year a contribution of wood(B) to burn on the altar of the Lord our God, as it is written in the Law.

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34 And we cast the lots among the priests, the Levites, and the people, for the wood offering, to bring it into the house of our God, after the houses of our fathers, at times appointed year by year, to burn upon the altar of the Lord our God, as it is written in the law:

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In the twelfth year of King Xerxes, in the first month, the month of Nisan, the pur(A) (that is, the lot(B)) was cast in the presence of Haman to select a day and month. And the lot fell on[a] the twelfth month, the month of Adar.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Esther 3:7 Septuagint; Hebrew does not have And the lot fell on.

In the first month, that is, the month Nisan, in the twelfth year of king Ahasuerus, they cast Pur, that is, the lot, before Haman from day to day, and from month to month, to the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar.

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24 For Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite,(A) the enemy of all the Jews, had plotted against the Jews to destroy them and had cast the pur(B) (that is, the lot(C)) for their ruin and destruction.(D)

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24 Because Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had devised against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast Pur, that is, the lot, to consume them, and to destroy them;

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18 They divide my clothes among them
    and cast lots(A) for my garment.(B)

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18 They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.

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33 The lot is cast(A) into the lap,
    but its every decision(B) is from the Lord.(C)

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33 The lot is cast into the lap; but the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord.

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