Bible Cross References
Now therefore divide this land for an inheritance unto the nine tribes, and the half tribe of Manasseh,
Numbers 26:53-56
53
To these the land shall be divided, so that they may inherit according to the number of the names.
54
To the greater number you shall give the greater inheritance, and to the lesser number you shall give the lesser inheritance: to each one, as they have been numbered, shall their inheritance be given.
55
The land shall be divided to the names by lot, they shall inherit according to the tribes of their families.
56
You shall divide their inheritance by lot between the many and the few.
Numbers 33:54
And you shall inherit their land according to your tribes; to the greater number you shall give the larger possession, and to the smaller you shall give the less possession; to whatsoever [part] a man's name shall go forth [by lot], there shall be his [property]: you shall inherit according to the tribes of your families.
Numbers 32:2-14
2
And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad came and spoke to Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and to the princes of the congregation, saying,
3
Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Shebam, Nebo, and Beon,
4
the land which the Lord has delivered up before the children of Israel, is pasture land, and your servants have cattle.
5
And they said, If we have found grace in your sight, let this land be given to your servants for a possession, and do not cause us to pass over the Jordan.
6
And Moses said to the sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben, Shall your brothers go to war, and shall you sit here?
7
And why do you pervert the minds of the children of Israel, that they should not cross over into the land, which the Lord gives them?
8
Did not your fathers do thus, when I sent them from Kadesh Barnea to spy out the land?
9
And they went up to the valley of the cluster, and spied the land, and turned aside the heart of the children of Israel, that they should not go into the land, which the Lord gave them.
10
And the Lord was very angry in that day, and swore, saying,
11
Surely these men who came up out of Egypt from twenty years old and upward, who know good and evil, shall not see the land which I swore [to give] to Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, for they have not closely followed after Me;
12
except Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who was set apart, and Joshua the son of Nun, for they closely followed after the Lord.
13
And the Lord was very angry with Israel; and for forty years He caused them to wander in the wilderness, until all the generation which did evil in the sight of the Lord was extinct.
14
Behold, you have risen up in the room of your fathers, a combination of sinful men, to increase yet farther the fierce wrath of the Lord against Israel.
Ezekiel 47:13-23
13
Thus says the Lord God: You shall inherit these borders of the land; [they are] given by lot to the twelve tribes of the children of Israel.
14
And you shall inherit it, each according to his brother's portion, [even the land] concerning which I lifted up My hand to give [it] to your fathers; and this land shall fall to you by lot.
15
And these are the borders of the land that lies northward, from the Great Sea that comes down, and divides the entrance of Emaseldam;
16
Hamath, Berothah, between the coasts of Damascus and the coasts of Emathi, the habitation of Saunan, which [places] are above the coasts of Auranitis.
17
These are the borders from the sea, from the habitations of Enan, the coasts of Damascus, and the northern [coasts].
18
And the eastern coasts between Loranitis and Damascus, and the land of Gilead, and the land of Israel, the Jordan divides to the sea that is east of the city of palm trees. These are the eastern [coasts].
19
And the southern and southwestern [coasts are] from Tamar and the city of palm trees, to the water of Meribah Kadesh, reaching forth to the Great Sea. This part is the south and southwest.
20
This part of the great sea forms a border, till [one comes] opposite the entrance of Hamath, [even] as far as the entrance thereof. These are the parts west of Hamath.
21
So you shall divide this land to them, [even] to the tribes of Israel.
22
You shall cast the lot upon it, for yourselves and the strangers that sojourn in the midst of you, who have begotten children in the midst of you; and they shall be to you as natives among the children of Israel; they shall eat with you in [their] inheritance in the midst of the tribes of Israel.
23
And they shall be in the tribe of proselytes among the proselytes that are with them. There shall you give them an inheritance, says the Lord God.
Ezekiel 48:23-29
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And [as for] the rest of the tribes, from the eastern parts as far as the western, Benjamin [shall have] one [portion].
24
And from the borders of Benjamin, from the eastern parts to the western, Simeon, one.
25
And from the borders of Simeon, from the eastern parts to the western, Issachar, one.
26
And from the borders of Issachar, from the eastern parts to the western, Zebulun, one.
27
And from the borders of Zebulun, from the east to the western parts, Gad, one.
28
And from the borders of Gad, from the eastern parts to the southwestern parts; his coasts shall even be from Tamar, and the water of Meribah Kadesh, for an inheritance, unto the Great Sea.
29
This is the land, which you shall divide by lot to the tribes of Israel, and these are their portions, says the Lord God.