The Wilderness Years

for the tribe of the sons of Reuben have received, by the house of their fathers; and the tribe of the children of Gad, by the house of their fathers; and the half of the tribe of Manasseh have received their inheritance;

the two tribes and the half of the tribe have received their inheritance beyond the Jordan, near Jericho, eastward, at the sun -rising.'

And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,

`These are the names of the men who give to you the inheritance of the land: Eleazar the priest, and Joshua son of Nun,

and one prince--one prince--for a tribe ye do take to give the land by inheritance.

`And these are the names of the men: of the tribe of Judah, Caleb son of Jephunneh;

and of the tribe of the sons of Simeon, Shemuel son of Aminihud;

of the tribe of Benjamin, Elidad son of Chislon;

and of the tribe of the sons of Dan, the prince Bukki son of Jogli;

of the sons of Joseph, of the tribe of the sons of Manasseh, the prince Hanniel son of Ephod;

and of the tribe of the sons of Ephraim, the prince Kemuel son of Shiphtan;

and of the tribe of the sons of Zebulun, the prince Elizaphan son of Parnach;

and of the tribe of the sons of Issachar, the prince Paltiel son of Azzan;

and of the tribe of the sons of Asher, the prince Ahihud son of Shelomi;

and of the tribe of the sons of Naphtali, the prince Pedahel son of Ammihud.'

These are those whom Jehovah hath commanded to give the sons of Israel inheritance in the land of Canaan.

And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, in the plains of Moab, by Jordan, near Jericho, saying,

`Command the sons of Israel, and they have given to the Levites of the inheritance of their possession cities to inhabit; also a suburb for the cities round about them ye do give to the Levites.

And the cities have been to them to inhabit, and their suburbs are for their cattle, and for their goods, and for all their beasts.

`And the suburbs of the cities which ye give to the Levites are , from the wall of the city and without, a thousand cubits round about.

And ye have measured from the outside of the city, the east quarter, two thousand by the cubit, and the south quarter, two thousand by the cubit, and the west quarter, two thousand by the cubit, and the north quarter, two thousand by the cubit; and the city is in the midst; this is to them the suburbs of the cities.

`And the cities which ye give to the Levites are the six cities of refuge, which ye give for the fleeing thither of the man-slayer, and besides them ye give forty and two cities;

all the cities which ye give to the Levites are forty and eight cities, them and their suburbs.

And the cities which ye give are of the possession of the sons of Israel, from the many ye multiply, and from the few ye diminish; each, according to his inheritance which they inherit, doth give of his cities to the Levites.'

And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,