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Woe to Oppressors

Micah 2:5

In 11 translations

BSB
Therefore, you will have no one in the assembly of the LORD to divide the land by lot.
KJV
Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast a cord by lot in the congregation of the LORD.
WEB
Therefore you will have no one who divides the land by lot in Yahweh’s assembly.
ASV
Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast the line by lot in the assembly of Jehovah.
LSV
Therefore, you have no caster of a line by lot || In the assembly of YHWH.
YLT
Therefore, thou hast no caster of a line by lot In the assembly of Jehovah.
DBY
Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast the measuring line upon a lot, in the congregation of Jehovah.
DRC
Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast the cord of a lot in the assembly of the Lord.
GNV
Therefore thou shalt haue none that shall cast a corde by lot in the Congregation of the Lord.
JPS
Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast the line by lot in the congregation of the LORD.
LXXE
Therefore thou shalt have no one to cast a line for the lot.

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Original-language editions

WLC
לָכֵן֙ לֹֽא־יִֽהְיֶ֣ה לְךָ֔ מַשְׁלִ֥יךְ חֶ֖בֶל בְּגוֹרָ֑ל בִּקְהַ֖ל יְהוָֽה׃
LXX-Br
Διατοῦτο οὐκ ἔσται σοι βάλλων σχοινίον ἐν κλήρῳ· ἐν ἐκκλησίᾳ Κυρίου

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Deuteronomy 32:8When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, when He divided the sons of man, He set the boundaries of the peoples according to the number of the sons of God.
  • Joshua 18:4Appoint three men from each tribe, and I will send them out to survey the land and map it out, according to the inheritance of each. Then they will return to me
  • Joshua 18:10And Joshua cast lots for them in the presence of the LORD at Shiloh, where he distributed the land to the Israelites according to their divisions.
  • Deuteronomy 23:8The third generation of children born to them may enter the assembly of the LORD.
  • Hosea 9:3They will not remain in the land of the LORD; Ephraim will return to Egypt and eat unclean food in Assyria.
  • Nehemiah 7:61The following came up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer, but could not prove that their families were descended from Israel:
  • Deuteronomy 23:2No one of illegitimate birth may enter the assembly of the LORD, nor may any of his descendants, even to the tenth generation.
  • Psalms 16:6The lines of my boundary have fallen in pleasant places; surely my inheritance is delightful.

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