Numbers 33:54

54 "Divide up the land by lot according to the size of your clans: Large clans will get large tracts of land, small clans will get smaller tracts of land. However the lot falls, that's it. Divide it up according to your ancestral tribes.

Numbers 33:54 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 33:54

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).

Numbers 33:54 In-Context

52 drive out the native population before you, destroy their carved idols, destroy their cast images, level their worship-mounds

53 so that you take over the land and make yourself at home in it; I've given it to you. It's yours.

54 "Divide up the land by lot according to the size of your clans: Large clans will get large tracts of land, small clans will get smaller tracts of land. However the lot falls, that's it. Divide it up according to your ancestral tribes.

55 "But if you don't drive out the native population, everyone you let stay there will become a cinder in your eye and a splinter in your foot. They'll give you endless trouble right in your own backyards.

56 And I'll start treating you the way I planned to treat them."