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OET-RV by cross-referenced section JOS 18:1

JOS 18:1–18:10 ©

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Allocations for the remaining seven tribes

Jos 18:1–10

18:1 Allocations for the remaining seven tribes

18Then all the Israelis assembled at Shiloh and set-up the sacred tent there. The battles over the land had stopped 2but seven of their tribes hadn’t had their inheritances assigned yet. 3Yehoshua asked the Israelis, “How much longer are you all going to put off capturing the land that your ancestors’ God Yahweh has given you? 4Choose three men from each of those seven[fn] tribes and I’ll send them out to range around and inspect the land and write descriptions of it in terms of potential allocations and bring it to me. 5They can divide that land into seven parts. (Yehudah will maintain their territory in the south, and Yosef’s tribes in the north.) 6You all should write descriptions of the seven parts and bring them here to me, and in front of our God Yahweh, I’ll throw dice for you to allocate them to the seven tribes. 7However, the Levites don’t receive a portion, because their inheritance is Yahweh’s priesthood. Gad and Rueben and the Manashsheh half-tribe have already received their inheritance that Yahweh’s servant Mosheh allocated to them on the eastern side of the Yordan.

8So the chosen men got ready to leave and Yehoshua instructed them, “Go and walk around that land and write a report and bring it back to me. Then I’ll throw dice for you all in front of Yahweh here in Shiloh.” 9Then the men left and walked through the area, writing down their recommendations for dividing the seven portions according to the cities in the area, then they returned back to Yehoshua at the camp at Shiloh. 10So Yehoshua threw dice for them at Shiloh in front of Yahweh, and so that land was allocated to those remaining seven tribes.


18:4 Not in the Hebrew but implied by verse 5 as they go on to divide the surveyed land into seven portions.