<p class="bodytext">The first lot went to Jehoiarib,p> <p class="bodytext">the second to Jedaiah,p>

<p class="poetry">A toss of a coin<n id="1" /> ends<n id="2" /> disputes,p> <p class="poetry">and settles the issue<n id="3" /> between strong opponents.<n id="4" />p>

Their inheritance must be apportioned<n id="1" /> by lot among the larger and smaller groups.p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">The fourth lot belonged to the tribe of Issachar<n id="1" /> by its clans.

<t /><p class="bodytext">The fifth lot belonged to the tribe of Asher<n id="1" /> by its clans.

<t /><p class="bodytext">The sixth lot belonged to the tribe of Naphtali<n id="1" /> by its clans.

<t /><p class="bodytext">The seventh lot belonged to the tribe of Dan<n id="1" /> by its clans.

<p class="poetry">The dice are thrown into the lap,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">but their every decision<n id="2" /> is from the <sc>Lordsc>.<n id="3" />p>

Aaron must then present the goat which has been designated by lot for the <sc>Lordsc>,<n id="1" /> and he is to make it a sin offering,

<t /><p class="bodytext">The third lot belonged to the tribe of Zebulun<n id="1" /> by its clans. The border of their territory<n id="2" /> extended to Sarid.

They were assigned to the Kohathite clans of the Levites who were descendants of Aaron,<n id="1" /> for the first lot belonged to them.

<p class="bodytext">The first lot went to Asaph&#8217;s son Joseph and his relatives and sons &#8211; twelve in all,<n id="1" />p> <p class="bodytext">the second to Gedaliah and his relatives and sons &#8211; twelve in all,p>

but the goat which has been designated by lot for Azazel is to be stood alive<n id="1" /> before the <sc>Lordsc> to make atonement on it by sending it away to Azazel into the wilderness.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="bodytext">The land allotted to the tribe of Judah by its clans reached to the border of Edom, to the Wilderness of Zin in the Negev far to the south.<n id="1" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">The land allotted to Joseph&#8217;s descendants extended from the Jordan at Jericho<n id="1" /> to the waters of Jericho to the east, through the desert and on up from Jericho into the hill country of Bethel.<n id="2" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">The second lot belonged to the tribe of Simeon by its clans.<n id="1" />

<p class="bodytext">These were the areas where Aaron&#8217;s descendants lived:<n id="1" />p> <p class="bodytext">The following belonged to the Kohathite clan, for they received the first allotment:<n id="2" />p>

The lot for the east gate went to Shelemiah.<n id="1" /> They then cast lots for his son Zechariah, a wise adviser, and the lot for the north gate went to him.

For Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had devised plans against the Jews to destroy them. He had cast <i>puri> (that is, the lot) in order to afflict and destroy them.

The sailors said to one another,<n id="1" /> &#8220;Come on, let&#8217;s cast lots<n id="2" /> to find out<n id="3" /> whose fault it is that this disaster has overtaken us.<n id="4" />&#8221; So they cast lots, and Jonah was singled out.<n id="5" />