Appoint for yourselves three men from each tribe, and I will send them out. They are to go and survey the land, write a description of it for the purpose of their inheritance, and return to me. Then they are to divide it into seven portions. Judah is to remain in its territory in the south and Joseph’s family in their[a] territory in the north.(A) When you have written a description of the seven portions of land and brought it to me, I will cast lots for you here in the presence of the Lord our God.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. Joshua 18:5 = the tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh

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