The Wilderness Years

for the tribe of the children of Reuben according to their fathers’ houses, and the tribe of the children of Gad according to their fathers’ houses, have received, and the half-tribe of Manasseh have received, their inheritance:

the two tribes and the half-tribe have received their inheritance beyond the Jordan at Jericho eastward, toward the sunrising.

And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,

These are the names of the men that shall divide the land unto you for inheritance: Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun.

And ye shall take one prince of every tribe, to divide the land for inheritance.

And these are the names of the men: Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh.

And of the tribe of the children of Simeon, Shemuel the son of Ammihud.

Of the tribe of Benjamin, Elidad the son of Chislon.

And of the tribe of the children of Dan a prince, Bukki the son of Jogli.

Of the children of Joseph: of the tribe of the children of Manasseh a prince, Hanniel the son of Ephod.

And of the tribe of the children of Ephraim a prince, Kemuel the son of Shiphtan.

And of the tribe of the children of Zebulun a prince, Elizaphan the son of Parnach.

And of the tribe of the children of Issachar a prince, Paltiel the son of Azzan.

And of the tribe of the children of Asher a prince, Ahihud the son of Shelomi.

And of the tribe of the children of Naphtali a prince, Pedahel the son of Ammihud.

These are they whom Jehovah commanded to divide the inheritance unto the children of Israel in the land of Canaan.

And Jehovah spake unto Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying,

Command the children of Israel, that they give unto the Levites of the inheritance of their possession cities to dwell in; and suburbs for the cities round about them shall ye give unto the Levites.

And the cities shall they have to dwell in; and their suburbs shall be for their cattle, and for their substance, and for all their beasts.

And the suburbs of the cities, which ye shall give unto the Levites, shall be from the wall of the city and outward a thousand cubits round about.

And ye shall measure without the city for the east side two thousand cubits, and for the south side two thousand cubits, and for the west side two thousand cubits, and for the north side two thousand cubits, the city being in the midst. This shall be to them the suburbs of the cities.

And the cities which ye shall give unto the Levites, they shall be the six cities of refuge, which ye shall give for the manslayer to flee unto: and besides them ye shall give forty and two cities.

All the cities which ye shall give to the Levites shall be forty and eight cities; them shall ye give with their suburbs.

And concerning the cities which ye shall give of the possession of the children of Israel, from the many ye shall take many; and from the few ye shall take few: every one according to his inheritance which he inheriteth shall give of his cities unto the Levites.

And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,