Joshua 14:4

For the sons of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim. And they gave no portion to the Levites in the land except cities to dwell in with the suburbs of it for their cattle and for their substance.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

For the children of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim: therefore they gave no part unto the Levites in the land, save cities to dwell in, with their suburbs for their cattle and for their substance.

In Context

3For Moses had given the inheritance of the two tribes and the half-tribe beyond the Jordan, but to the Levites he gave no inheritance among them.

5As LORD commanded Moses, so the sons of Israel did, and they divided the land.

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Cross References

Genesis 41:52And the name of the second he called Ephraim, for God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.

Genesis 48:6And thy issue, which thou beget after them, shall be thine, they shall be called after the name of their brothers in their inheritance.

Joshua 16:4And the sons of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, took their inheritance.

1 Chronicles 5:1And the sons of Reuben the first-born of Israel (for he was the first-born, but, inasmuch as he defiled his father's couch, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph the son of Israel, and so the genealogy is not to be reckone

Matthew Henry on Joshua 14:2-6

The Distribution of Canaan. ( b. c. 1444.) 1 And these are the countries which the children of Israel inherited in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel, distributed for inheritance to them. 2 By lot was their inheritance, as the Lord commanded by the hand of Moses, for the nine tribes, and for the half tribe. 3 For Moses had given the inheritance of two tribes and a half tribe on the other side Jordan: but unto… Read the whole commentary →

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