We cast the lots, to determine the time and order in which each of them should take the care of the business. For the wood-offering; for the wood, which was to be spent in great quantity, being used in every sacrifice, and formerly had been supplied out of the temple's treasures, or by the king; which could not now be done. Into the house of our God, i.e. into the place appointed to receive it in the buildings adjoining or belonging to the temple. After the houses of our fathers, i. e. according to our several families, which were to take the charge of it by course.
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Nehemiah 10:34
34 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: