1 Samuel 6:9

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“And see, if it goeth up by the way of his own coast to Bethshemesh, then he hath done us this great evil: but if not, then we shall know that it is not his hand that smote us: it was a chance that happened to us.”

Mathematics

Chance, Randomization ⁽²⁴⁰⁾

Although some interpret the fact that lots were cast in the Bible as proof that biblical peoples viewed this practice as a way for divining the will of God, this was not always the case. In some ways, the use of such a chancy operation indicates that the Hebrews understood that some things were, or could be, left to chance and that determinism was not necessarily the law of the universe. In fact biblical peoples acknowledged that some things simply happen by chance and not necessarily by the will of God.