<p class="poetry">It is as if I have been given fertile fieldsp> <p class="poetry">or received a beautiful tract of land.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc> watches over the innocent day by day<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and they possess a permanent inheritance.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">He took him away from following the mother sheep,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and made him the shepherd of Jacob, his people,p> <p class="poetry">and of Israel, his chosen nation.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Certainly<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc> does not forsake his people;p> <p class="poetry">he does not abandon the nation that belongs to him.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">saying, &#8220;To you I will give the land of Canaanp> <p class="poetry">as the portion of your inheritance.&#8221;p>

<p class="poetry">So the <sc>Lordsc> was angry with his people<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and despised the people who belong to him.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">He announced that he would do mighty deeds for his people,p> <p class="poetry">giving them a land that belonged to other nations.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">Yes,<n id="1" /> sons<n id="2" /> are a gift from the <sc>Lordsc>,p> <p class="poetry">the fruit of the womb is a reward.p>

<p class="poetry">A house and wealth are inherited from parents,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">but a prudent wife<n id="2" /> is from the <sc>Lordsc>.p>

<t /><p class="poetry">Wisdom, like<n id="1" /> an inheritance, is a good thing;p> <p class="poetry">it benefits those who see the light of day.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="bodytext">Then Rachel and Leah replied to him, &#8220;Do we still have any portion or inheritance<n id="1" /> in our father&#8217;s house?

Any children that you father<n id="1" /> after them will be yours; they will be listed<n id="2" /> under the names of their brothers in their inheritance.<n id="3" />

<p class="poetry">You will bring them in<n id="1" /> and plant them in the mountain<n id="2" /> of your inheritance,p> <p class="poetry">in the place you made<n id="3" /> for your residence, O Lord,p> <p class="poetry">the sanctuary, O <sc>Lordsc>, that your hands have established.p>

and if he has no brothers, then you are to give his inheritance to his father&#8217;s brothers;

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

We will cross armed in the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s presence into the land of Canaan, and then the possession of our inheritance that we inherit will be ours on this side of the Jordan River.&#8221;<n id="1" />p>

The two and a half tribes have received their inheritance on this side of the Jordan, east of Jericho,<n id="1" /> toward the sunrise.&#8221;p>

They are your people, your valued property,<n id="1" /> whom you brought out with great strength and power.<n id="2" />p>

As for the Levites in your villages, you must not ignore them, for they have no allotment or inheritance along with you.

Then we took their land and gave it as an inheritance to Reuben, Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh.p>