And the whole congregation of the children of Israel assembled together
at Shiloh, and set up the tabernacle of the congregation there. And the
land was subdued before them. And there remained among the children of
Israel seven tribes, which had not yet received their inheritance. And
Joshua said unto the children of Israel, How long are ye slack to go to
possess the land, which the LORD God of your fathers hath given you?
Give out from among you three men for each tribe: and I will send them,
and they shall rise, and go through the land, and describe it according
to the inheritance of them; and they shall come again to me. And they
shall divide it into seven parts: Judah shall abide in their coast
on the south, and the house of Joseph shall abide in their coasts on
the north. Ye shall therefore describe the land into seven parts, and
bring the description hither to me, that I may cast lots for you here
before the LORD our God. But the Levites have no part among you; for
the priesthood of the LORD is their inheritance: and Gad, and Reuben,
and half the tribe of Manasseh, have received their inheritance beyond
Jordan on the east, which Moses the servant of the LORD gave them. And
the men arose, and went away: and Joshua charged them that went to
describe the land, saying, Go and walk through the land, and describe
it, and come again to me, that I may here cast lots for you before
the LORD in Shiloh. And the men went and passed through the land, and
described it by cities into seven parts in a book, and came again to
Joshua to the host at Shiloh. And Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh
before the LORD: and there Joshua divided the land unto the children of
Israel according to their divisions.
When they had made an end of dividing the land for inheritance by their
coasts, the children of Israel gave an inheritance to Joshua the son
of Nun among them: according to the word of the LORD they gave him
the city which he asked, even Timnath-serah in mount Ephraim: and he
built the city, and dwelt therein. So they made an end of dividing the
country. Then the children of Israel appointed six cities of refuge,
three on each side of Jordan, as the LORD commanded. And forty and
eight cities with their suburbs they set apart by lot, out of the
inheritance of other tribes, for the tribe of Levi.
And the LORD gave unto Israel all the land which he sware to give unto
their fathers; and they possessed it, and dwelt therein. And the LORD
gave them rest round about, according to all that he sware unto their
fathers: and there stood not a man of all their enemies before them;
the LORD delivered all their enemies into their hand. There failed not
ought of any good thing which the LORD had spoken unto the house of
Israel; all came to pass.
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