Numbers 26:56
New Revised Standard Version
Their inheritance shall be apportioned according to lot between the larger and the smaller.

New American Bible
As the lot falls the heritage of each tribe, large or small, will be assigned.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Whatsoever shall fall by lot, that shall be taken by the more, or the fewer.

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Whatsoever shall fall by lot, that shall be taken by the more, or the fewer.

these are

Numbers 35:2,3 Command the children of Israel that they give to the Levites out of their possessions, . . .

Genesis 46:11 The sons of Levi: Gerson and Caath, and Merari.

Exodus 6:16-19 And these are the names of the sons of Levi by their kindreds: Gerson, and Caath, and Merari. And the years of the life of Levi were a hundred and thirty-seven. . . .

1 Chronicles 6:1,16 The sons of Levi were Gerson, Caath, and Merari. . . .

Of Gershon

Numbers 3:1 These are the generations of Aaron and Moses in the day that the Lord spoke to Moses in mount Sinai.

Numbers 4:1 And the Lord spoke to Moses, and Aaron, saying:

Context
Inheritance by Lot
55Yet so that by lot the land be divided to the tribe and families. 56Whatsoever shall fall by lot, that shall be taken by the more, or the fewer.
Cross References
Numbers 26:55
Yet so that by lot the land be divided to the tribe and families.

Numbers 26:57
This also is the number of the sons of Levi by their families: Gerson, of whom is the family of the Gersonites: Caath, of whom is the family of the Caathites: Merari, of whom is the family of the Merarites.

Ezekiel 47:22
And you shall divide it by lot for an inheritance to you, and to the strangers that shall come over to you, that shall beget children among you: and they shall be unto you as men of the same country born among the children of Israel: they shall divide the possession with you in the midst of the tribes of Israel.

Numbers 26:55
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