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Early used to decide an issue; so in choosing each of the two goats on the day of atonement (two inscribed tablets of boxwood were the lots used according to Joma 3:9 (?)), , and in assigning the inheritances in Canaan (; ), in selecting men for an expedition (; ), in electing a king (), in detecting the guilty (-42), in selecting an apostle (), as formerly priests' offices among the 16 of Eleazar's family and the eight of Ithamar (; ; ; ), in apportioning spoil (; ), in dividing Jesus' garments (; ). In , "the lot is cast into the lap," i.e. into an urn or cap in the judge's lap; "but the whole disposing (Hebrew:judgment) thereof is of the Lord." Only in weighty cases resort was had to judgment by lot; it was entered on with solemnity, as God is arbiter. Sanctification of the people preceded in -18.