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
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To these the land shall be divided as an inheritance, according to the number of names.
54
To the many you shall give a larger inheritance, and to the few you shall give a smaller inheritance. Each shall be given its inheritance at the mouth of those who were numbered of them.
55
But the land shall be divided by lot; they shall inherit according to the names of the tribes of their fathers.
56
By the mouth of the lot their inheritance shall be divided between the many and the few.
Numbers 33:54
And you shall divide the land by lot as an inheritance among your families; to the larger you shall give a larger inheritance, and to the smaller you shall give a smaller inheritance; there everyone's inheritance shall be whatever falls to him by lot. You shall inherit according to the tribes of your fathers.
Numbers 32:2-14
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the sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben came and spoke to Moses, to Eleazar the priest, and to the leaders of the congregation, saying,
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Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Shebam, Nebo, and Beon,
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the land which Jehovah has struck before the congregation of Israel, is a land for livestock, and your servants have livestock.
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Therefore they said, If we have found favor in your eyes, let this land be given to your servants as a possession. Do not cause us to pass over the Jordan.
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And Moses said to the sons of Gad and to the sons of Reuben: Shall your brethren go to war while you sit here?
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Now why will you discourage the heart of the children of Israel from going over into the land which Jehovah has given them?
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Thus your fathers did when I sent them away from Kadesh Barnea to see the land.
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For when they went up to the Valley of Eshcol and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the children of Israel, so that they did not go into the land which Jehovah had given them.
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And the anger of Jehovah burned that day, and He swore, saying,
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Surely none of the men who came up from Egypt, from twenty years old and above, shall see the land of which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, because they have not wholly followed Me,
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except Caleb the son of Jephunneh, the Kenizzite, and Joshua the son of Nun, for they have wholly followed Jehovah.
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And the anger of Jehovah burned against Israel, and He made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation that had done evil in the eyes of Jehovah was destroyed.
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And behold, you have risen up in your fathers' place, a brood of sinful men, to add still more to the burning anger of Jehovah against Israel.
Ezekiel 47:13-23
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Thus says the Lord Jehovah: These are the borders by which you shall divide the land as an inheritance among the twelve tribes of Israel. Joseph shall have two portions.
14
And you shall inherit it equally with one another; for I raised My hand and swore to give it to your fathers, and this land shall fall to you as your inheritance.
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And this shall be the border of the land on the north: from the Great Sea, by the road to Hethlon, as one goes to Zedad,
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Hamath, Berothah, Sibraim (which is between the border of Damascus and the border of Hamath), to Hazar Hatticon (which is on the border of Hauran).
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Thus the boundary shall be from the Sea to Hazar Enan, the border of Damascus; and as for the north, northward, it is the border of Hamath. This is the north side.
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And on the east side you shall mark out the border from between Hauran and Damascus, and between Gilead and the land of Israel, along the Jordan, and to the Eastern Sea. This is the east side.
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And the south side, toward the south, shall be from Tamar to the waters of Meribah by Kadesh, along the brook to the Great Sea. This is the south side, toward the South.
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And the west side shall be the Great Sea, from the southern boundary until one comes to a point opposite Hamath. This is the west side.
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Thus you shall divide this land among yourselves according to the tribes of Israel.
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And it shall be that you will divide it by lot as an inheritance for yourselves, and for the strangers who sojourn among you and who bear children among you. They shall be to you as native-born among the children of Israel; they shall have an inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel.
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And it shall be that in whatever tribe the stranger sojourns, there you shall give him his inheritance, declares the Lord Jehovah.
Ezekiel 48:23-29
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As for the rest of the tribes, from the east side to the west, Benjamin shall have one portion;
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and by the border of Benjamin, from the east side to the west, Simeon shall have one portion;
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and by the border of Simeon, from the east side to the west, Issachar shall have one portion;
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and by the border of Issachar, from the east side to the west, Zebulun shall have one portion;
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and by the border of Zebulun, from the east side to the west, Gad shall have one portion;
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and by the border of Gad, on the south side, toward the South, the border shall be from Tamar to the waters of Meribah by Kadesh, along the river to the Great Sea.
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This is the land which you shall divide by lot as an inheritance among the tribes of Israel, and these are their portions, says the Lord Jehovah.