<p class="bodytext">Joseph&#8217;s descendants, Manasseh and Ephraim, were assigned their land.<n id="1" />

<p class="poetry">The wise inherit honor,p> <p class="poetry">but he holds fools up<n id="1" /> to public contempt.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">that I may cause<n id="1" /> those who love me to inherit wealth,p> <p class="poetry">and that I may fill<n id="2" /> their treasuries.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">The naive inherit<n id="1" /> folly,p> <p class="poetry">but the shrewd<n id="2" /> are crowned<n id="3" /> with knowledge.p>

<p class="poetry">The descendants of his servants will inherit it,p> <p class="poetry">and those who are loyal to him<n id="1" /> will live in it.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">I claim your rules as my permanent possession,p> <p class="poetry">for they give me joy.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">The one who troubles<n id="1" /> his family<n id="2" /> will inherit nothing,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">and the fool<n id="4" /> will be a servant to the wise person.<n id="5" />p>

<p class="poetry">A benevolent<n id="1" /> person leaves an inheritance<n id="2" /> for his grandchildren,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">but the wealth of a sinner is stored up for the righteous.<n id="4" />p>

Little by little<n id="1" /> I will drive them out before you, until you become fruitful and inherit the land.

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

We will not return to our homes until every Israelite has his inheritance.

You must take one leader from every<n id="1" /> tribe to assist in allocating the land as an inheritance.<n id="2" />

These are the ones whom the <sc>Lordsc> commanded to divide up the inheritance among the Israelites in the land of Canaan.p>

<p class="poetry">When the Most High<n id="1" /> gave the nations their inheritance,p> <p class="poetry">when he divided up humankind,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">he set the boundaries of the peoples,p> <p class="poetry">according to the number of the heavenly assembly.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="bodytext">These are the land assignments made by Moses<n id="1" /> on the plains of Moab east of the Jordan River opposite Jericho.<n id="2" />

<p class="poetry">thus<n id="1" /> I have been made to inherit<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">months of futility,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">and nights of sorrow<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">have been appointed<n id="5" /> to me.p>

<p class="poetry">Rise up, O God, and execute judgment on the earth!p> <p class="poetry">For you own<n id="1" /> all the nations.p>

<p class="poetry">The one who leads the upright astray in an evil wayp> <p class="poetry">will himself fall into his own pit,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">but the blameless will inherit what is good.<n id="2" />p>

The <sc>Lordsc> will take possession of<n id="1" /> Judah as his portion in the holy land and he will choose Jerusalem once again.

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&#8217;s inheritance must be in the place where his lot falls. You must inherit according to your ancestral<n id="1" /> tribes.