Numbers 26:54

26:54 To a larger group you will give a larger inheritance, ¹  and to a smaller group you will give a smaller inheritance. ²  To each one its inheritance must be given according to the number of people in it. ³ 

Numbers 33:54

33:54 You must divide the land by lot for an inheritance among your families. To a larger group you must give a larger inheritance, and to a smaller group you must give a smaller inheritance. Everyone’s inheritance must be in the place where his lot falls. You must inherit according to your ancestral ⁴  tribes.

Exodus 16:18

16:18 When ⁵  they measured with an omer, the one who gathered much had nothing left over, and the one who gathered little lacked nothing; each one had gathered what he could eat.

Exodus 16:2

16:2 The entire company ⁶  of Israelites murmured against Moses and Aaron in the desert.

Colossians 1:13-14

1:13 He delivered us from the power of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of the Son he loves, ⁷  1:14 in whom we have redemption, ⁸  the forgiveness of sins.

¹ tn Heb “to many you will multiply his inheritance.”

² tn Heb “to a few you will lessen his inheritance.”

³ tn Heb “according to those that were numbered of him,” meaning, in accordance with the number of people in his clan.

⁴ tn Heb “of your fathers.”

⁵ tn The preterite with the vav (ו) consecutive is subordinated here as a temporal clause.

⁶ tn Or “community” or “assembly.”

⁷ tn Here αὐτοῦ (autou) has been translated as a subjective genitive (“he loves”).

⁸ tc διὰ τοῦ αἵματος αὐτοῦ (dia tou {aimato" autou, “through his blood”) is read at this juncture by several minuscule mss (614 630 1505 2464 al) as well as a few, mostly secondary, versional and patristic witnesses. But the reading was prompted by the parallel in Eph 1:7 where the wording is solid. If these words had been in the original of Colossians, why would scribes omit them here but not in Eph 1:7? Further, the testimony on behalf of the shorter reading is quite overwhelming: {א A B C D F G Ψ 075 0150 6 33 1739 1881 Ï latt co as well as several other versions and fathers}. The conviction that “through his blood” is not authentic in Col 1:14 is as strong as the conviction that these words are authentic in Eph 1:7.