The Receiving of the Land 1-6 When Joshua had reached a venerable age,Godsaid to him, “You’ve had a good, long life, but there is a lot of land still to…

Land West of the Jordan 1-2 Here are the inheritance allotments that the People of Israel received in the land of Canaan. Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and…

Judah 1 The lot for the people of Judah, their clans, extended south to the border of Edom, to the wilderness of Zin in the extreme south. 2-4 The southern…

Joseph 1-3 The lot for the people of Joseph went from the Jordan near Jericho, east of the spring of Jericho, north through the desert mountains to Bethel. It went…

1-2 This is the lot that fell to the people of Manasseh, Joseph’s firstborn. (Gilead and Bashan had already been given to Makir, Manasseh’s firstborn and father of Gilead, because…

The Shiloh Survey 1-2 Then the entire congregation of the People of Israel got together at Shiloh. They put up the Tent of Meeting. The land was under their control…

Simeon 1-8 The second lot went to Simeon for its clans. Their inheritance was within the territory of Judah. In their inheritance they had: Beersheba (or Sheba), Moladah, Hazar Shual,…

Asylum-Cities 1-3 ThenGodspoke to Joshua: “Tell the People of Israel: Designate the asylum-cities, as I instructed you through Moses, so that anyone who kills a person accidentally—that is, unintentionally—may flee…

Cities for the Levites 1-2 The ancestral heads of the Levites came to Eleazar the priest and Joshua son of Nun and to the heads of the other tribes of…

1-5 Then Joshua called together the Reubenites, Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh. He said: “You have carried out everything Moses the servant ofGodcommanded you, and you have obediently done…