the twenty-first to Jakin, the twenty-second to Gamul,

the twenty-third to Delaiah, the twenty-fourth to Maaziah.

Obed-Edom was assigned the south gate, and his sons were assigned the storehouses.

saying, “To you I will give the land of Canaan as the portion of your inheritance.”

We have sinned like ¹  our ancestors; ²  we have done wrong, we have done evil.

He will be beaten and despised, ¹  and his reproach will not be wiped away; ² 

So I perceived there is nothing better than for people ¹  to enjoy their work, ²  because that is their ³  reward; for who can show them what the future holds? ⁴ 

To every man whom God has given wealth, and possessions, he has also given him the ability ¹  to eat from them, to receive his reward and to find enjoyment in his toil; these things ²  are the gift of God.

The rest of the Kohathite clans of the Levites were allotted cities from the tribe of Ephraim.

Shuppim and Hosah were assigned the west gate, along with the Shalleketh gate on the upper road. One guard was adjacent to another. ¹ 

This is the land which you will allot to the tribes of Israel, and these are their portions, declares the sovereign Lord.

When Lot ¹  hesitated, the men grabbed his hand and the hands of his wife and two daughters because the Lord had compassion on them. ²  They led them away and placed them ³  outside the city.

The land allotted to Joseph’s descendants extended from the Jordan at Jericho ¹  to the waters of Jericho to the east, through the desert and on up from Jericho into the hill country of Bethel. ² 

What then would be one’s lot from God above, one’s heritage from the Almighty ¹  on high?

After ¹  he had destroyed ²  seven nations ³  in the land of Canaan, he gave his people their land as an inheritance. ⁴ 

Now if they should be married to one of the men ¹  from another Israelite tribe, their inheritance would be taken from the inheritance of our fathers and added to the inheritance of the tribe into which they marry. ²  As a result, it will be taken from the lot of our inheritance.

But he urged ¹  them persistently, so they turned aside with him and entered his house. He prepared a feast for them, including bread baked without yeast, and they ate.

See, I have parceled out to your tribes these remaining nations, ¹  from the Jordan to the Mediterranean Sea ²  in the west, including all the nations I defeated. ³ 

For this reason these days are known as Purim, after the name of pur.

“‘Therefore this is what the sovereign Lord says: Woe to the city of bloodshed, the pot whose rot ¹  is in it, whose rot has not been removed ²  from it! Empty it piece by piece. No lot has fallen on it. ³