But correct the way you have been living and do what is right. ¹  Obey the Lord your God. If you do, the Lord will forgo destroying you as he threatened he would. ² 

I say this to your shame! Is there no one among you wise enough to settle disputes between fellow Christians? ¹ 

And he will stand before Eleazar the priest, who ¹  will seek counsel ²  for him before the Lord by the decision of the Urim. ³  At his command ⁴  they will go out, and at his command they will come in, he and all the Israelites with him, the whole community.”

You must divide the land by lot for an inheritance among your families. To a larger group you must give a larger inheritance, and to a smaller group you must give a smaller inheritance. Everyone’s inheritance must be in the place where his lot falls. You must inherit according to your ancestral ¹  tribes.

If a matter is too difficult for you to judge – bloodshed, ¹  legal claim, ²  or assault ³  – matters of controversy in your villages ⁴  – you must leave there and go up to the place the Lord your God chooses. ⁵ 

Now Absalom used to get up early and stand beside the road that led to the city gate. Whenever anyone came by who had a complaint to bring to the king for arbitration, Absalom would call out to him, “What city are you from?” The person would answer, “I, your servant, ¹  am from one of the tribes of Israel.”

When Abraham’s servant heard their words, he bowed down to the ground before the Lord.

“You must not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds those who see ¹  and subverts the words of the righteous.

and Aaron is to cast lots over the two goats, ¹  one lot for the Lord and one lot for Azazel. ² 

You must be sure to obey all my statutes and regulations. ¹  I am the Lord.’”

These are the statutes, regulations, and instructions which the Lord established ¹  between himself and the Israelites at Mount Sinai through ²  Moses.

If he consecrates his field in the jubilee year, ¹  the conversion value will stand,

The land must be divided by lot; and they will inherit in accordance with the names of their ancestral tribes.

Their inheritance must be apportioned ¹  by lot among the larger and smaller groups.

then the community must judge between the slayer and the avenger of blood according to these decisions.

These are the stipulations, statutes, and ordinances that Moses spoke to the Israelites after he had brought them out of Egypt,

So keep the commandments, statutes, and ordinances that I today am commanding you to do.

Be certain to keep all the statutes and ordinances that I am presenting to you today.

‘Cursed is the one who perverts justice for the resident foreigner, the orphan, and the widow.’ Then all the people will say, ‘Amen!’

The land assignments to the nine-and-a-half tribes were made by drawing lots, as the Lord had instructed Moses. ¹