Bible Verses about “casting lots”

“¶ The lot is cast into the lap; but the whole disposing thereof [is] of the LORD.”

“Then said Jesus, ‹Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.› And they parted his raiment, and cast lots.”

“¶ The lot causeth contentions to cease, and parteth between the mighty.”

“And they said every one to his fellow, Come, and let us cast lots, that we may know for whose cause this evil [is] upon us. So they cast lots, and the lot fell upon Jonah.”

“They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.”

“And they gave forth their lots; and the lot fell upon Matthias; and he was numbered with the eleven apostles.”

“According to the custom of the priest's office, his lot was to burn incense when he went into the temple of the Lord.”

“And Saul said, Cast [lots] between me and Jonathan my son. And Jonathan was taken.”

“And Aaron shall cast lots upon the two goats; one lot for the LORD, and the other lot for the scapegoat.”

“And Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before the LORD: and there Joshua divided the land unto the children of Israel according to their divisions.”

“And they crucified him, and parted his garments, casting lots: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, They parted my garments among them, and upon my vesture did they cast lots.”

“And when they had crucified him, they parted his garments, casting lots upon them, what every man should take.”

“They said therefore among themselves, Let us not rend it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be: that the scripture might be fulfilled, which saith, They parted my raiment among them, and for my vesture they did cast lots. These things therefore the soldiers did.”

“And Aaron shall bring the goat upon which the LORD'S lot fell, and offer him [for] a sin offering.”

“But the goat, on which the lot fell to be the scapegoat, shall be presented alive before the LORD, to make an atonement with him, [and] to let him go for a scapegoat into the wilderness.”

“Notwithstanding the land shall be divided by lot: according to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit.”

“Thus were they divided by lot, one sort with another; for the governors of the sanctuary, and governors [of the house] of God, were of the sons of Eleazar, and of the sons of Ithamar.”

“And we cast the lots among the priests, the Levites, and the people, for the wood offering, to bring [it] into the house of our God, after the houses of our fathers, at times appointed year by year, to burn upon the altar of the LORD our God, as [it is] written in the law:”

“¶ In the first month, that [is], the month Nisan, in the twelfth year of king Ahasuerus, they cast Pur, that [is], the lot, before Haman from day to day, and from month to month, [to] the twelfth [month], that [is], the month Adar.”