Numbers 26:56
“According to the lot shall the possession thereof be divided between many and few.”
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.
Notwithstanding the land shall be divided by lot: according to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit.
According to the lot shall the possession thereof be divided between many and few.
And these are they that were numbered of the Levites after their families: of Gershon, the family of the Gershonites: of Kohath, the family of the Kohathites: of Merari, the family of the Merarites.
These are the families of the Levites: the family of the Libnites, the family of the Hebronites, the family of the Mahlites, the family of the Mushites, the family of the Korathites. And Kohath begat Amram.
Related Verses
“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.”
“Unto these the land shall be divided for an inheritance according to the number of names.”
“And divide the prey into two parts; between them that took the war upon them, who went out to battle, and between all the congregation:”
“These are the families of the Zebulunites according to those that were numbered of them, threescore thousand and five hundred.”
“And of the children of Israel’s half, which Moses divided from the men that warred,”