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54 Divide the land among your families by drawing lots. Give more land to larger families and less land to smaller ones. The land must be given to each family by drawing lots. Divide it among your ancestors’ tribes.

55 “ ‘But if you do not force out those who live in the land, they will be like splinters in your eyes and thorns in your sides. They will constantly fight with you over the land you live in. 56 Then I will do to you what I planned to do to them.’ ”

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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)

55 “‘But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land, those you allow to remain will become barbs in your eyes and thorns(E) in your sides. They will give you trouble in the land where you will live. 56 And then I will do to you what I plan to do to them.(F)’”

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