New Revised Standard Version
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.

Contemporary English Version
The nation's leaders and their families settled in Jerusalem. But there was room for only one out of every ten of the remaining families, and so they asked God to show them who would live there.

New American Bible
The administrators took up residence in Jerusalem, and the rest of the people cast lots to bring one man in ten to reside in Jerusalem, the holy city, while the other nine would remain in the other cities.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the princes of the people dwelt at Jerusalem: but the rest of the people cast lots, to take one part in ten to dwell in Jerusalem the holy city, and nine parts in the other cities.

And the princes of the people dwelt at Jerusalem: but the rest of the people cast lots, to take one part in ten to dwell in Jerusalem the holy city, and nine parts in the other cities.

the rulers.

Nehemiah 7:4,5 And the city was very wide and great, and the people few in the midst thereof, and the houses were not built. . . .

Deuteronomy 17:8,9 If thou perceive that there be among you a hard and doubtful matter in judgment between blood and blood, cause and cause, leprosy and leprosy: and thou see that the words of the judges within thy gates do vary: arise, and go up to the place, which the Lord thy God shall choose. . . .

Psalm 122:5 Because their seats have sat in judgment, seats upon the house of David.

cast lots.

Nehemiah 10:34 And we cast lots among the priests, and the Levites, and the people for the offering of wood, that it might be brought into the house of our God by the houses of our fathers at set times, from year to year: to burn upon the altar of the Lord our God, as it is written in the law of Moses:

Joshua 18:10 And he cast lots before the Lord in Silo, and divided the land to the children of Israel into seven parts.

1 Chronicles 26:13 And they cast lots equally, both little and great, by their families for every one of the gates.

Proverbs 16:33 Lots are cast into the lap, but they are disposed of by the Lord.

Acts 1:24 And praying, they said: Thou, Lord, who knowest the heart of all men, shew whether of these two thou hast chosen,

one of ten.

Judges 20:9,10 But this we will do in common against Gabaa: . . .

the holy.

Nehemiah 11:18 All the Levites in the holy city were two hundred eighty-four.

Isaiah 48:2 For they are called of the holy city, and are established upon the God of Israel: the Lord of hosts is his name.

Isaiah 52:1 Arise, arise, put on thy strength, O Sion, put on the garments of thy glory, O Jerusalem, the city of the Holy One: for henceforth the uncircumcised, and unclean shall no more pass through thee.

Matthew 4:5 Then the devil took him up into the holy city, and set him upon the pinnacle of the temple,

Matthew 27:53 And coming out of the tombs after his resurrection, came into the holy city and appeared to many.