Quotes About Division

And you are to divide the land by lot according to your clans. Give a larger inheritance to a larger clan and a smaller inheritance to a smaller one. Whatever falls to each one by lot will be his. You will receive an inheritance according to the tribes of your fathers.

So Moses commanded the Israelites, “Apportion this land by lot as an inheritance. The LORD has commanded that it be given to the nine and a half tribes.

They shall eat equal portions, even though he has received money from the sale of his fatherís estate.

The foreigner living among you will rise higher and higher above you, while you sink down lower and lower.

When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, when He divided the sons of man, He set the boundaries of the peoples according to the number of the sons of God.

Now therefore divide this land as an inheritance to the nine tribes and the half-tribe of Manasseh.”

For Moses had given the inheritance east of the Jordan to the other two and a half tribes. But he granted no inheritance among them to the Levites.

So the Israelites did as the LORD had commanded Moses, and they divided the land.

The region of Tappuah belonged to Manasseh, but Tappuah itself, on the border of Manasseh, belonged to Ephraim.

Within Issachar and Asher, Manasseh was assigned Beth-shean, Ibleam, Dor (that is, Naphath), Endor, Taanach, and Megiddo, each with their surrounding settlements.

and divide the land into seven portions. Judah shall remain in their territory in the south, and the house of Joseph shall remain in their territory in the north.

The second lot came out for the clans of the tribe of Simeon: Their inheritance lay within the territory of Judah

The inheritance of the Simeonites was taken from the territory of Judah, because the share for Judahís descendants was too large for them. So the Simeonites received an inheritance within Judahís portion.

The fourth lot came out for the clans of the tribe of Issachar:

The fifth lot came out for the clans of the tribe of Asher:

The sixth lot came out for the clans of the tribe of Naphtali:

The seventh lot came out for the clans of the tribe of Dan:

In all, ten cities, together with their pasturelands, were given to the rest of the Kohathite clans.

For the LORD has made the Jordan a border between us and you Reubenites and Gadites. You have no share in the LORD!í So your descendants could cause ours to stop fearing the LORD.

ëAre they not finding and dividing the spoil—a girl or two for each warrior, a plunder of dyed garments for Sisera, the spoil of embroidered garments for the neck of the looter?í

But if not, may fire come from Abimelech and consume the leaders of Shechem and Beth-millo, and may fire come from the leaders of Shechem and Beth-millo and consume Abimelech.”

So Abimelech and all his troops set out by night and lay in wait against Shechem in four companies.

Jephthah then gathered all the men of Gilead and fought against Ephraim. And the men of Gilead struck them down because the Ephraimites had said, “You Gileadites are fugitives in Ephraim, living in the territories of Ephraim and Manasseh.”

The Gileadites captured the fords of the Jordan leading to Ephraim, and whenever a fugitive from Ephraim would say, “Let me cross over,” the Gileadites would ask him, “Are you an Ephraimite?” If he answered, “No,”