Numbers 26:55
New International Version
Be sure that the land is distributed by lot. What each group inherits will be according to the names for its ancestral tribe.

New Living Translation
But you must assign the land by lot, and give land to each ancestral tribe according to the number of names on the list.

English Standard Version
But the land shall be divided by lot. According to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit.

Berean Standard Bible
Indeed, the land must be divided by lot; they shall receive their inheritance according to the names of the tribes of their fathers.

King James Bible
Notwithstanding the land shall be divided by lot: according to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit.

New King James Version
But the land shall be divided by lot; they shall inherit according to the names of the tribes of their fathers.

New American Standard Bible
But the land shall be divided by lot. They shall receive their inheritance according to the names of the tribes of their fathers.

NASB 1995
“But the land shall be divided by lot. They shall receive their inheritance according to the names of the tribes of their fathers.

NASB 1977
“But the land shall be divided by lot. They shall receive their inheritance according to the names of the tribes of their fathers.

Legacy Standard Bible
But the land shall be divided by lot. They shall receive their inheritance according to the names of the tribes of their fathers.

Amplified Bible
But the land shall be divided by lot. They shall receive their inheritance according to the names of the tribes of their fathers (tribal ancestors).

Christian Standard Bible
The land is to be divided by lot; they will receive an inheritance according to the names of their ancestral tribes.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The land must be divided by lot; they will receive an inheritance according to the names of their ancestral tribes.

American Standard Version
Notwithstanding, the land shall be divided by lot: according to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
However the land will be divided in lots; they will inherit by the names of the families of their fathers.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
The land shall be divided to the names by lot, they shall inherit according to the tribes of their families.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Yet so that by lot the land be divided to the tribe and families.

English Revised Version
Notwithstanding the land shall be divided by lot: according to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
But the land must be divided by drawing lots. The tribes will receive their land based on the names of their ancestors.

International Standard Version
but the land is to be divided by lot, inheriting according to the names of their ancestor's tribe.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Notwithstanding the land shall be divided by lot; according to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit.

Literal Standard Version
Surely the land is apportioned by lot; they inherit by the names of the tribes of their fathers;

Majority Standard Bible
Indeed, the land must be divided by lot; they shall receive their inheritance according to the names of the tribes of their fathers.

New American Bible
But the land shall be divided by lot, all inheriting according to the lists of their ancestral tribes.

NET Bible
The land must be divided by lot; and they will inherit in accordance with the names of their ancestral tribes.

New Revised Standard Version
But the land shall be apportioned by lot; according to the names of their ancestral tribes they shall inherit.

New Heart English Bible
Notwithstanding, the land shall be divided by lot: according to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit.

Webster's Bible Translation
Notwithstanding, the land shall be divided by lot: according to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit.

World English Bible
Notwithstanding, the land shall be divided by lot. According to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit.

Young's Literal Translation
'Only by lot is the land apportioned, by the names of the tribes of their fathers they inherit;

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Context
Inheritance by Lot
54Increase 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. 55Indeed, the land must be divided by lot; they shall receive their inheritance according to the names of the tribes of their fathers. 56Each inheritance is to be divided by lot among the larger and smaller tribes.”…

Cross References
Numbers 26:56
Each inheritance is to be divided by lot among the larger and smaller tribes."

Numbers 33:54
And you are to divide the land by lot according to your clans. Give a larger inheritance to a larger clan and a smaller inheritance to a smaller one. Whatever falls to each one by lot will be his. You will receive an inheritance according to the tribes of your fathers.

Numbers 34:13
So Moses commanded the Israelites, "Apportion this land by lot as an inheritance. The LORD has commanded that it be given to the nine and a half tribes.

Joshua 14:2
Their inheritance was assigned by lot for the nine and a half tribes, as the LORD had commanded through Moses.

Ezekiel 47:22
You shall allot it as an inheritance for yourselves and for the foreigners who dwell among you and who have children. You are to treat them as native-born Israelites; along with you, they shall be allotted an inheritance among the tribes of Israel.


Treasury of Scripture

Notwithstanding the land shall be divided by lot: according to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit.

Numbers 26:21
And the sons of Pharez were; of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites: of Hamul, the family of the Hamulites.

Romans 11:7
What then? Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for; but the election hath obtained it, and the rest were blinded

1 Corinthians 12:4
Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit.

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Verse 55. - Notwithstanding the land shall be divided by lot. This can only be reconciled with the preceding order by assuming that the lot was to determine the situation of the territory, the actual boundaries being left to the discretion of the rulers. Recourse was had as far as possible to the lot in order to refer the matter directly to God, of whose will and gift they held the land (cf. Proverbs 16:33; Acts 1:26). The lot would also remove any suspicion that the more numerous tribes, such as Judah or Dan, were unfairly favoured (verse 56).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Indeed,
אַךְ־ (’aḵ-)
Adverb
Strong's 389: A particle of affirmation, surely

the land
הָאָ֑רֶץ (hā·’ā·reṣ)
Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 776: Earth, land

must be divided
יֵחָלֵ֖ק (yê·ḥā·lêq)
Verb - Nifal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 2505: To be smooth, to apportion, separate

by lot;
בְּגוֹרָ֕ל (bə·ḡō·w·rāl)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 1486: Lot -- a lot (for casting)

they shall receive their inheritance
יִנְחָֽלוּ׃ (yin·ḥā·lū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 5157: To inherit, to occupy, to bequeath, distribute, instate

according to the names
לִשְׁמ֥וֹת (liš·mō·wṯ)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 8034: A name

of the tribes
מַטּוֹת־ (maṭ·ṭō·wṯ-)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 4294: A staff, rod, shaft, branch, a tribe

of their fathers.
אֲבֹתָ֖ם (’ă·ḇō·ṯām)
Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 1: Father


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