Unto these the land shall be divided for an inheritance according to the number of names.
The land in Canaan was to be divided as an inheritance according to the number of people in each family. Larger families were to receive more land and smaller families were to receive less. The Levites were excepted from this equal distribution because they served at the sanctuary. This arrangement gave every family a home and enough land to cultivate, supplying both the means and the incentive for a useful, industrious, self-supporting life of work.
The land in Canaan was to be divided as an inheritance according to the number of people in each family. Larger families were to receive more land and smaller families were to receive less. The Levites were excepted from this equal distribution because they served at the sanctuary. This arrangement gave every family a home and enough land to cultivate, supplying both the means and the incentive for a useful, industrious, self-supporting life of work.