Numbers 26:53

53 `To these is the land apportioned by inheritance, by the number of names;

Numbers 26:53 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 26:53

Unto these the land shall be divided for an inheritance
That were numbered, and to none else:

according to the number of their names;
and for this end was the number of them now taken, that the land might be equally divided among them; women and minors, or such as were under twenty years of age, had no share in it; and even only those who were at that age at this time; so Jarchi says, it was not divided to any that were less than twenty years of age, even though they came to be full twenty before the division of the land; for they were seven years subduing it, and seven years dividing it, yet none took any part of it but these 601,730: nay, he says, if a man had six children they took but their father's part only.

Numbers 26:53 In-Context

51 These [are] numbered ones of the sons of Israel, six hundred thousand, and a thousand, seven hundred and thirty.

52 And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,

53 `To these is the land apportioned by inheritance, by the number of names;

54 to the many thou dost increase their inheritance, and to the few thou dost diminish their inheritance; [to] each according to his numbered ones is given his inheritance.

55 `Only by lot is the land apportioned, by the names of the tribes of their fathers they inherit;