Numbers 26:53

What does Numbers 26:53 mean?

A plain-English look at Numbers 26:53 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

Unto these the land shall be divided for an inheritance according to the number of names.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

Unto these the land shall be divided for an inheritance according to the number of names.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

Unto these the land shall be divided for an inheritance according to the number of names.

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

Let there be a division of the land among these, for their heritage, in relation to the number of names.

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

`To these is the land apportioned by inheritance, by the number of names;

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

To these shall the land be divided for their possessions according to the number of names.

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

Unto these shall the land be divided for an inheritance according to the number of the names;

Context

v.52And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,

v.53This passage

v.54To the more thou shalt give the more inheritance, and to the fewer thou shalt give the less inheritance: to every one according to those that were numbered of him shall his inheritance be given.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Revelation 5:10

    and madest them to be unto our God a kingdom and priests; and they reign upon the earth.

  • Matthew 5:5

    Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.

  • Psalms 49:14

    They are appointed as a flock for Sheol; Death shall be their shepherd: And the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; And their beauty shall be for Sheol to consume, That there be no habitation for it.

  • Genesis 12:7

    And Jehovah appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto Jehovah, who appeared unto him.

  • Joshua 11:23

    So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that Jehovah spake unto Moses; and Joshua gave it for an inheritance unto Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. And the land had rest from war.

  • Joshua 14:1

    And these are the inheritances which the children of Israel took in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers’ houses of the tribes of the children of Israel, distributed unto them,

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