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You shall apportion the land by lot according to your clans; to a large one you shall give a large inheritance, and to a small one you shall give a small inheritance; the inheritance shall belong to the person on whom the lot falls; according to your ancestral tribes you shall inherit.
And ye shall divide the land by lot What is said in this verse is the same with ( Numbers 26:53-56 ) , where it has been explained; (See Gill on Numbers 26:53), (See Gill on Numbers 26:54), (See Gill on Numbers 26:55), (See Gill on Numbers 26:56).
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you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, destroy all their figured stones, destroy all their cast images, and demolish all their high places.
53
You shall take possession of the land and settle in it, for I have given you the land to possess.
54
You shall apportion the land by lot according to your clans; to a large one you shall give a large inheritance, and to a small one you shall give a small inheritance; the inheritance shall belong to the person on whom the lot falls; according to your ancestral tribes you shall inherit.
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But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then those whom you let remain shall be as barbs in your eyes and thorns in your sides; they shall trouble you in the land where you are settling.
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And I will do to you as I thought to do to them.
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