Joshua 14:1-3

GOD’S WORD Translation

The First Stage in Dividing the Land

14 This is the land that the people of Israel inherited in Canaan. The priest Eleazar, Joshua (son of Nun), and the heads of Israel’s tribes distributed it to the people. ² The land inherited by the nine-and-a-half tribes was determined by drawing lots as the Lord had commanded through Moses. ³ Moses had given the two-and-a-half tribes their inheritance east of the Jordan River. He did not give any land as an inheritance to Levi’s tribe,