In regard to details, xiii. 2-6 (now D) expresses the view that the
conquest was incomplete, and numbers districts chiefly in the
south-west and in the Lebanon. Two sources deal with the inheritance
of the east Jordan tribes in terms which are--(a) general (xiii. 8-12,
D), and (b) precise (vv. 15-32, P). The latter stands between the
duplicate passages xiii. 14 and 32 seq. (see the Sept.). With the
interest taken in these tribes, cf. for (a) i. 12-18; Deut. iii.
12-22, and the sequel in Joshua xxii. 1-6; and for (b) xxii. 9 seq.;
Num. xxxii. P's account of the division opens with an introductory
notice of the manner in which Eleazar the priest and Joshua (note the
order) prepare to complete the work which Moses had begun (xiv. 1-5).
It opens with Judah, its borders (xv. 1-12) and cities (vv. 20-62),
and continues with the two Joseph tribes, Ephraim (xvi. 4-9, contrast
details in vv. 1-3) and Manasseh (xvii. 1-10, cf. Num. xxvi. 30-32,
xxvii. 1-11; P). There is now a break in the narrative (xviii. 2-10,
source uncertain); seven tribes have not yet received an inheritance,
and Joshua (alone) encourages them to send three men from each tribe
to walk through the land--excluding the territory of Judah and
Joseph--and to bring a description of it to him, after which he
divides it among them by lot. P[2] now resumes with an account of the
borders and cities of Benjamin (xviii. 11-28), Simeon, Zebulun,
Issachar, Asher, Naphtali and Dan (xix.; on v. 47, see below); and,
after the subscription (xix. 51), concludes with the institution of
the cities of refuge (xx., cf. Num. xxxv.), and of the Levitical
cities (xxi., contrast the earlier brief notice, xiii. 14, 33).
Chapter xx., belonging to the Predaction, has certain points of
contact with Deut. xix. which, it is very important to observe, are
wanting in the Septuagint; and xxi. 43-45 closes D's account of the
division, and in the Septuagint contains matter most of which is now
given by P in xix. 49 seq. Two narratives describe the dismissal of
the trans-Jordanic tribes after their co-operation in the conquest,
viz. xxii. 1-6 (D), and xxii. 9 seq. (P); cf. above, on xiii. 8 seq.
P, with the description of the erection of the altar (v. 34, Gilead?;
cf. Gen. xxxi. 47 seq.), is apparently a late re-writing of some now
obscure incident to emphasize the unity of worship. P's account of the
distribution of land among the _nine and a half_ tribes by Eleazar and
Joshua (from xiv. 1-5 to xix. 51) appears to have been on the lines
laid down in Num. xxxiv. (P). The scene, according to xviii. 1, is
Shiloh, and this verse, which does not belong to the context, should
apparently precede P's narrative in xiv. 1. But of the occupation of
_Shiloh_, the famous Ephraimite sanctuary and the seat of the ark, we
have no information. The older source, however, presupposes that Judah
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