Numbers 26:54

The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible

Contextual Overview

⁵²Then the LORD said to Moses, ⁵³"The land is to be divided among the tribes as an inheritance, according to the number of names. ⁵⁴Increase the inheritance for a large tribe and decrease it for a small one; each is to receive its inheritance according to the number of those registered.⁵⁵Indeed, the land must be divided by lot; they shall receive their inheritance according to the names of the tribes of their fathers. ⁵⁶Each inheritance is to be divided by lot among the larger and smaller tribes."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

many: Numbers 32:3, Numbers 32:5, Numbers 33:54, Joshua 17:14

give the more: Heb. multiply his

give the less: Heb. diminish his.

Reciprocal: Numbers 35:8 - from them Joshua 18:6 - that I may cast Joshua 18:28 - according

Gill's Notes on the Bible

To many thou shalt give the more inheritance, and to few thou shalt give the less inheritance,.... To a tribe more numerous, and consisting of more and larger families, a greater part of the land was to be given to them to possess; and to a smaller tribe, and of the fewer families and persons in them, a lesser share of it: this direction is given to Moses, but is not designed for him personally, for he never entered the land, but died before Israel went into it; but for the chief ruler that would be then in being, namely, Joshua, his successor:

to everyone shall his inheritance be given, according to those that were numbered of him; that is, to every tribe, and so to every family in it, according to the number of men in it, that were of the above age when the sum of them was taken: because it is in the original text, "to a man according to those numbered of him", c. q hence the Jewish writers r gather, that the land was distributed not to women, but to men only.

q איש "viro", Montanus. r Vid. T. Bab. Bava. Bathra, fol. 122. 1.