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These were the numbered ones of the sons of Israel, six hundred and one thousand, seven hundred and thirty.

And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,

The land shall be divided to those for an inheritance, according to the number of names.

To the many you shall increase their inheritance; and to the few you shall diminish their inheritance; each according to the mouth of his numbered ones shall be given his inheritance.

But the land shall be divided by lot. They shall inherit according to the names of the tribes of their fathers.

By the mouth of the lot, possession of it shall be divided between the many and few.