Numbers 26:51-56

New English Translation

Total Number and Division of the Land

⁵¹ These were those numbered of the Israelites, 601,730.

⁵² Then the Lord spoke to Moses: ⁵³ “To these the land must be divided as an inheritance according to the number of the names. ⁵⁴ To a larger group you will give a larger inheritance,^[a] and to a smaller group you will give a smaller inheritance.^[b] To each one its inheritance must be given according to the number of people in it.^{[c] 55} The land must be divided by lot; and they will inherit in accordance with the names of their ancestral tribes. ⁵⁶ Their inheritance must be apportioned^[d] by lot among the larger and smaller groups.”