⁵⁴ Distribute the land by lot,^(A) according to your clans.^(B) To a larger group give a larger inheritance, and to a smaller group a smaller one.^(C) Whatever falls to them by lot will be theirs. Distribute it according to your ancestral tribes.^(D)

⁸ The towns you give the Levites from the land the Israelites possess are to be given in proportion to the inheritance of each tribe: Take many towns from a tribe that has many, but few from one that has few.”^(A)