Quotes about Apportionment
“The land is to be divided among the tribes as an inheritance, according to the number of names.
- Numbers 26:53
Increase the inheritance for a large tribe and decrease it for a small one; each tribe is to receive its inheritance according to the number of those registered.
- Numbers 26:54
Each inheritance is to be divided by lot among the larger and smaller tribes.”
- Numbers 26:56
For the tribes of the Reubenites and Gadites, along with the half-tribe of Manasseh, have already received their inheritance.
- Numbers 34:14
These are the ones whom the LORD commanded to apportion the inheritance to the Israelites in the land of Canaan.
- Numbers 34:29
The total number of cities you give the Levites will be forty-eight, with their corresponding pasturelands.
- Numbers 35:7
The cities that you apportion from the territory of the Israelites should be given to the Levites in proportion to the inheritance of each tribe: more from a larger tribe and less from a smaller one.”
- Numbers 35:8
This is what Moses had given to the clans of the tribe of Gad:
- Joshua 13:24
When you have mapped out the seven portions of land and brought it to me, I will cast lots for you here in the presence of the LORD our God.
- Joshua 18:6
And Joshua cast lots for them in the presence of the LORD at Shiloh, where he distributed the land to the Israelites according to their divisions.
- Joshua 18:10
Jattir, Eshtemoa,
- Joshua 21:14
He has allotted their portion; His hand has distributed it by measure. They will possess it forever; they will dwell in it from generation to generation.
- Isaiah 34:17