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And there remained among the sons of Israel seven tribes who had not yet received their inheritance.
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And Joshua said unto the sons of Israel, How long
shall ye be negligent to go to possess the land, which the LORD God of your fathers has given you?
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Indicate from among you three men for
each tribe that I may send them and
let them arise and walk through the land and draw it according to its inheritances; and they shall return unto me.
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And they shall divide it into seven parts; Judah shall abide in their borders towards the Negev, and the house of Joseph shall abide in their borders on the north.
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Ye shall therefore draw up the land
into seven parts and bring
the description here that I may cast lots for you here before the LORD our God.
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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 of the other side of the Jordan on the east, which Moses, the slave of the LORD, gave them.
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And the men arose and went away; and Joshua charged those that went to draw the land, saying unto them, Go and walk through the land and draw it up and return to me that I may cast lots for you here before the LORD in Shiloh.
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And those men went and passed through the land, drawing it by cities into seven parts in a book and came
again to Joshua to the camp at Shiloh.
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And Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before the LORD; and there Joshua divided the land unto the sons of Israel according to their portions.
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And the lot of the tribe of the sons of Benjamin came up according to their families; and the border of their lot came forth between the sons of Judah and the sons of Joseph.
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And their border on the side of the north was from the Jordan and that border goes up beside Jericho on the north side and up to the mountain westward and comes out at the wilderness of Bethaven;