Land Distribution at Shiloh

18 The entire Israelite community assembled at Shiloh(A) where it set up the tent of meeting there; the land had been subdued by them.

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As the men prepared to go, Joshua commanded them[a] to write down a description of the land, saying, “Go and survey the land, write a description of it, and return to me. I will then cast lots for you here in Shiloh in the presence of the Lord.” So the men left, went through the land, and described it by towns in a document of seven sections. They returned to Joshua at the camp in Shiloh. 10 Joshua cast lots for them at Shiloh in the presence of the Lord where he distributed the land to the Israelites according to their divisions.

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Footnotes

  1. Joshua 18:8 Lit the ones going around

At Shiloh, in the land of Canaan, they told them, “The Lord commanded through Moses that we be given cities to live in, with their pasturelands for our livestock.”(A)

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This man would go up from his town every year(A) to worship and to sacrifice(B) to the Lord of Hosts at Shiloh,(C) where Eli’s two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, were the Lord’s priests.

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