Numbers 26:53
“The land shall be divided to these, as their possessions, according to the number of their names.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Unto these the land shall be divided for an inheritance according to the number of names.
In Context
52And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
Cross References
Genesis 12:2And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and magnify your name, and you will be blessed.
Joshua 1:6Be strengthened and be steadfast. For you shall divide by lot, to this people, the land about which I swore to their fathers that I would deliver it to them.
Joshua 14:1This is what the sons of Israel possessed in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar, the priest, and Joshua, the son of Nun, and the leaders of the families, by the tribes of Israel, gave to them,
Psalms 49:14Offer to God the sacrifice of praise, and pay your vows to the Most High.
Ezekiel 47:22And you shall distribute it by lot as an inheritance, for yourselves and for the new arrival who will be added to you, who will conceive sons in your midst. And they shall be to you as the indigenous among the sons of Israel. They shall divide the possession with you, in the midst of the tribes of Israel.
Matthew 5:5Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be consoled.
Matthew Henry on Numbers 26:53-57
52 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 53 Unto these the land shall be divided for an inheritance according to the number of names. 54 To many thou shalt give the more inheritance, and to few thou shalt give the less inheritance: to every one shall his inheritance be given according to those that were numbered of him. 55 Notwithstanding the land shall be divided by lot: according to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit. 56 According to the lot shall the possession thereof be divided… Read the whole commentary →