¹ The princes of the people lived in Jerusalem: the rest of the people also cast lots, to bring one of ten to dwell in Jerusalem the holy city, and nine parts in the [other] cities.

² (for they call themselves of the holy city, and stay themselves on the God of Israel; Yahweh of Hosts is his name):

¹⁸ All the Levites in the holy city were two hundred eighty-four.

¹ Awake, awake, put on your strength, Zion; put on your beautiful garments, Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into you the uncircumcised and the unclean.

³⁴ We cast lots, the priests, the Levites, and the people, for the wood-offering, to bring it into the house of our God, according to our fathers' houses, at times appointed, year by year, to burn on the altar of Yahweh our God, as it is written in the law;

⁵³ and coming out of the tombs after his resurrection, they entered into the holy city and appeared to many.

⁵ Then the devil took him into the holy city. He set him on the pinnacle of the temple,

²⁴ They prayed, and said, "You, Lord, who know the hearts of all men, show which one of these two you have chosen

³³ The lot is cast into the lap, But its every decision is from Yahweh.

⁵ For there are set thrones for judgment, The thrones of David's house.

⁴ Now the city was wide and large; but the people were few therein, and the houses were not built.

⁵ My God put into my heart to gather together the nobles, and the rulers, and the people, that they might be reckoned by genealogy. I found the book of the genealogy of those who came up at the first, and I found written therein:

¹³ They cast lots, the small as well as the great, according to their fathers' houses, for every gate.

⁹ But now this is the thing which we will do to Gibeah: [we will go up] against it by lot;

¹⁰ and we will take ten men of one hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, and one hundred of one thousand, and a thousand out of ten thousand, to get food for the people, that they may do, when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin, according to all the folly that they have worked in Israel.

¹⁰ Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before Yahweh: and there Joshua divided the land to the children of Israel according to their divisions.

⁸ If there arise a matter too hard for you in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within your gates; then shall you arise, and go up to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose;

⁹ and you shall come to the priests the Levites, and to the judge who shall be in those days: and you shall inquire; and they shall show you the sentence of judgment.