Numbers 33:54

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

Ye shall divide

Numbers 26:53

Give the more inheritance

Numbers 26:54

Give the less inheritance

Joshua 19:1

General references

Joshua 13:7

Joshua 17:12

Bible References

Ye shall divide

"Among these the land shall be divided for inheritance according to the number of names.

Give the more inheritance

To a large tribe you shall give a large inheritance, and to a small tribe you shall give a small inheritance; every tribe shall be given its inheritance in proportion to its list.

Give the less inheritance

The allotment for the tribe of the people of Judah according to their clans reached southward to the boundary of Edom, to the wilderness of Zin at the farthest south.

The allotment of the people of Joseph went from the Jordan by Jericho, east of the waters of Jericho, into the wilderness, going up from Jericho into the hill country to Bethel.

Then allotment was made to the people of Manasseh, for he was the firstborn of Joseph. To Machir the firstborn of Manasseh, the father of Gilead, were allotted Gilead and Bashan, because he was a man of war.

The lot of the tribe of the people of Benjamin according to its clans came up, and the territory allotted to it fell between the people of Judah and the people of Joseph.

The second lot came out for Simeon, for the tribe of the people of Simeon, according to their clans, and their inheritance was in the midst of the inheritance of the people of Judah.

General references

Now therefore divide this land for an inheritance to the nine tribes and half the tribe of Manasseh."

Yet the people of Manasseh could not take possession of those cities, but the Canaanites persisted in dwelling in that land.