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To cast lots or draw lots is to make a random selection, and may refer to:
Cleromancy, a form of sortition in which an outcome is determined by means that normally would be considered random but that are sometimes believed to reveal the will of a deity
Drawing lots (cards), the practice, in card games, of cutting or drawing a random card to determine seating, partners, or first dealer
Drawing lots (decision making), a selection method, or a form of sortition, that is used by a group to choose one member of the group to perform a task after none has volunteered for it
Lottery, a form of gambling that involves the drawing of numbers at random for a prize
Sortition, the selection of decision-makers using a random representative sample
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Look up draw lots in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. To cast lots or draw lots is to make a random selection, and may refer to: Cleromancy, a form of...
Bible of the casting of lots as a means of determining God's will: In the Book of Leviticus 16:8, God commanded Moses, "And Aaron shall cast lots upon the...
A casting vote is a vote that someone may exercise to resolve a tied vote in a deliberative body. A casting vote is typically by the presiding officer...
by castinglots Arabian lots, or Arabic parts, an astrological divination technique Lot (name), including a list of people with the given name Lot (biblical...
by scholars with cleromancy (with divination by castinglots), although it is equally likely no casting was physically done, and the participants of Lights...
the free dictionary. Sortilege may refer to: Cleromancy, divination by castinglots Sortes (ancient Rome) Sortilège (band), a French heavy metal band Sortilège...
he would not drink. And they crucified him, and parted his garments, castinglots... And they bring him unto the place Golgotha, which is, being interpreted...
inscriptions: For divination and castinglots they have the highest possible regard. Their procedure for castinglots is uniform: They break off the branch...
increased status, honor, and power". Techniques include evocation, castinglots, the production of amulets and other magical equipment. At least some...
mother. She has written articles for MyJewishLearning.com and the book, CastingLots: Creating a Family in a Beautiful, Broken World, which was published...
54 teams in three groups, 18 in each. The groups were determined by castinglots on a non-regional basis. The winners of each group directly promotes...
elected a twelfth apostle by castinglots, a traditional Israelite way to determine the will of God (see Proverbs 16:33). The lot fell upon Matthias. Paul...
Sand casting, also known as sand molded casting, is a metal casting process characterized by using sand — known as casting sand — as the mold material...
the highest importance to the taking of auspices and castinglots. Their usual procedure with the lot is simple. They cut off a branch from a nut-bearing...
has the effect of casting out (12565 - 1)/9 = 1396 lots of 9 from 12565. To check the result of an arithmetical calculation by casting out nines, each number...
forbidding divination. But some biblical practices, such as Urim and Thummim, castinglots and prayer, are considered to be divination. Trevan G. Hatch disputes...
Mahabharata and Buddhist games list. There are several biblical references to "castinglots" (Hebrew: יפילו גורל yappîlū ḡōrāl), as in Psalm 22, indicating that...
Latin, and Greek). They then divided his garments among themselves and cast lots for his seamless robe, according to the Gospel of John. The Gospel of John...
(according to the Julian calendar) a new patriarch, Tikhon, was named through castinglots. The late 18th century saw the rise of starchestvo under Paisiy Velichkovsky...
Investment casting is an industrial process based on lost-wax casting, one of the oldest known metal-forming techniques. The term "lost-wax casting" can also...
could be ascertained through observing omens and through rituals (e.g., castinglots). It was believed that the gods expressed their will through "words"...
Pericles. To preserve these principles, the Athenians used lot for selecting officials. Castinglots aimed to ensure that all citizens were "equally" qualified...
extended, the Zealots ...undertook to dispose of the high priesthood by castinglots for it, whereas, as we have said already, it was to descend by succession...
sacrifice, dying on a tree. All four Gospels report the Roman soldiers castinglots for Jesus' clothes (Matthew 27:35; Mark 15:24; Luke 23:34; John 19:24)...
lots made of various materials have been found in Roman-era and migration-period archaeological sites. The most detailed description of Germanic lots...
one of them, the choice of person then being determined by castinglots. When, however, the lot falls on the old Brendan of Birr, his younger namesake Brendan...
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