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It shall come to pass: this directs what they should do, as well as foretells the event that shall be.
Ye shall divide it by lot; so it was divided before, so it must again, for thus all controversies shall be prevented; thus he will choose their inheritance for them, for the disposition of the lot is of the Lord.
Unto you, that are the natural seed of Abraham.
To the strangers that sojourn among you: foreigners never had such privilege before; though they might dwell and trade among the Jews, yet they were excluded all hereditary right, could not purchase nor possess inheritances. But now the constitution is altered; and by this temporal external incorporating them, a spiritual and heavenly is signified, no doubt; they are put into capacity of inheriting with Israel in both Cananus, in this below, in that above.
Which shall beget children among you; who from their birth should be invested with this right of inheriting.
Among the children of Israel; equally with the children of Israel in point of right, and with that very tribe ill which they sojourn.
Have inheritance; possess and enjoy, as well as you.
With you: this speaks the equal title or privilege.
Among the tribes: this directs where the inheritance of these strangers born among them, or that first came with them when they came out of Babylon, should be assigned them, viz. in that very tribe where they sojourned, which is fully expressed in the next verse.