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They came before Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the leaders, saying, “Yahweh commanded Moses to give an inheritance to us among our kinsmen.”[a] Therefore, according to the command of Yahweh[b] he gave them an inheritance among the kinsmen[c] of their father. Thus ten shares fell to Manasseh, besides the land of Gilead and Bashan, which is beyond the Jordan, because the daughters of Manasseh received an inheritance among his sons. And the land of Gilead was allotted to the remaining descendants[d] of Manasseh.

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Footnotes

  1. Joshua 17:4 Or “among our brothers”
  2. Joshua 17:4 Literally “mouth of Yahweh”
  3. Joshua 17:4 Or “brothers”
  4. Joshua 17:6 Or “sons”