Numbers 26:55
26:55 The land must be divided by lot; and they will inherit in accordance with the names of their ancestral tribes.
Numbers 32:18
32:18 We will not return to our homes until every Israelite has his inheritance.
Numbers 34:18
34:18 You must take one leader from every
1 tribe to assist in allocating the land as an inheritance.
2
Numbers 34:29
34:29 These are the ones whom the
Lord commanded to divide up the inheritance among the Israelites in the land of Canaan.
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
3 tribes.
Numbers 18:20
Duties of the Levites
18:20 The Lord spoke to Aaron, “You will have no inheritance in their land, nor will you have any portion of property 4 among them – I am your portion and your inheritance among the Israelites.
Numbers 32:19
32:19 For we will not accept any inheritance on the other side of the Jordan River
5 and beyond, because our inheritance has come to us on this eastern side of the Jordan.”
Numbers 34:17
34:17 “These are the names of the men who are to allocate the land to you as an inheritance:
6 Eleazar the priest and Joshua son of Nun.
Numbers 18:23-24
18:23 But the Levites must perform the service
7 of the tent of meeting, and they must bear their iniquity.
8 It will be a perpetual ordinance throughout your generations that among the Israelites the Levites
9 have no inheritance.
10
18:24 But I have given
11 to the Levites for an inheritance the tithes of the Israelites that are offered
12 to the
Lord as a raised offering. That is why I said to them that among the Israelites they are to have no inheritance.”
Numbers 34:13
34:13 Then Moses commanded the Israelites: “This is the land which you will inherit by lot, which the Lord has commanded to be given 13 to the nine and a half tribes,
Numbers 35:8
35:8 The towns you will give must be from the possession of the Israelites. From the larger tribes you must give more; and from the smaller tribes fewer. Each must contribute some of its own towns to the Levites in proportion to the inheritance allocated to each.
1 tn This sense is created by repetition: “one leader, one leader from the tribe.”
2 tn The sentence simply uses לִנְחֹל (linkhol, “to divide, apportion”). It has been taken already to mean “allocate as an inheritance.” Here “assist” may be added since Joshua and Eleazar had the primary work.
1 tn Heb “of your fathers.”
1 tn The phrase “of property” is supplied as a clarification.
1 tn The word “River” is not in the Hebrew text, but has been supplied in the translation for clarity.
1 tn The verb can be translated simply as “divide,” but it has more the idea of allocate as an inheritance, the related noun being “inheritance.”
1 tn The verse begins with the perfect tense of עָבַד (’avad) with vav (ו) consecutive, making the form equal to the instructions preceding it. As its object the verb has the cognate accusative “service.”
2 sn The Levites have the care of the tent of meeting, and so they are responsible for any transgressions against it.
3 tn Heb “they”; the referent (the Levites) has been supplied in the translation for clarity.
4 tn The Hebrew text uses both the verb and the object from the same root to stress the point: They will not inherit an inheritance. The inheritance refers to land.
1 tn The classification of the perfect tense here too could be the perfect of resolve, since this law is declaring what will be their portion – “I have decided to give.”
2 tn In the Hebrew text the verb has no expressed subject (although the “Israelites” is certainly intended), and so it can be rendered as a passive.
1 tn The infinitive forms the direct object of what the Lord commanded. It actually means “to give,” but without an expressed subject may be made passive.