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Leviticus 16.8:

and Aaron shall cast lots on the two goats, one lot for the Lord and the other lot for Azazel.^*

Joshua 18.6:

You shall describe the land in seven divisions and bring the description here to me; and I will cast lots for you here before the Lord our God.

Joshua 18.8:

So the men started on their way; and Joshua charged those who went to write the description of the land, saying, ‘Go throughout the land and write a description of it, and come back to me; and I will cast lots for you here before the Lord in Shiloh.’

Joshua 18.10:

and Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before the Lord; and there Joshua apportioned the land to the Israelites, to each a portion.

1 Chronicles 24.31:

These also cast lots corresponding to their kindred, the descendants of Aaron, in the presence of King David, Zadok, Ahimelech, and the heads of ancestral houses of the priests and of the Levites, the chief as well as the youngest brother.

1 Chronicles 25.8:

And they cast lots for their duties, small and great, teacher and pupil alike.

1 Chronicles 26.13:

and they cast lots by ancestral houses, small and great alike, for their gates.

1 Chronicles 26.14:

The lot for the east fell to Shelemiah. They cast lots also for his son Zechariah, a prudent counsellor, and his lot came out for the north.

Nehemiah 10.34:

We have also cast lots among the priests, the Levites, and the people, for the wood-offering, to bring it into the house of our God, by ancestral houses, at appointed times, year by year, to burn on the altar of the Lord our God, as it is written in the law.

Nehemiah 11.1:

Now the leaders of the people lived in Jerusalem; and the rest of the people cast lots to bring one out of ten to live in the holy city Jerusalem, while nine-tenths remained in the other towns.

Job 6.27:

You would even cast lots over the orphan,
and bargain over your friend.

Psalm 22.18:

they divide my clothes among themselves,
and for my clothing they cast lots.

Joel 3.3:

and cast lots for my people, and traded boys for prostitutes, and sold girls for wine, and drunk it down.

Obadiah 1.11:

On the day that you stood aside,
   on the day that strangers carried off his wealth,
and foreigners entered his gates
   and cast lots for Jerusalem,
   you too were like one of them.

Jonah 1.7:

The sailors^* said to one another, ‘Come, let us cast lots, so that we may know on whose account this calamity has come upon us.’ So they cast lots, and the lot fell on Jonah.

Additions to Esther 9.24:

—how Haman son of Hammedatha, the Macedonian,^* fought against them, how he made a decree and cast lots^* to destroy them,

Matthew 27.35:

And when they had crucified him, they divided his clothes among themselves by casting lots;^*

Luke 23.34:

Then Jesus said, ‘Father, forgive them; for they do not know what they are doing.’]]^* And they cast lots to divide his clothing.

John 19.24:

So they said to one another, ‘Let us not tear it, but cast lots for it to see who will get it.’ This was to fulfil what the scripture says,
‘They divided my clothes among themselves,
and for my clothing they cast lots.’

Acts of the Apostles 1.26:

And they cast lots for them, and the lot fell on Matthias; and he was added to the eleven apostles.