Joshua 18:6

And ye shall describe the land into seven portions, and bring [it] here to me. And I will cast lots for you here before LORD our God.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

Ye shall therefore describe the land into seven parts, and bring the description hither to me, that I may cast lots for you here before the LORD our God.

In Context

5And they shall divide it into seven portions: Judah shall abide in his border on the south, and the house of Joseph shall abide in their border on the north.

7For the Levites have no portion among you, for the priesthood of LORD is their inheritance, and Gad and Reuben and the half-tribe of Manasseh have received their inheritance beyond the Jordan eastward, which Moses the servant of LO

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Cross References

Numbers 33:54And ye shall inherit the land by lot according to your families. To the more ye shall give more inheritance, and to the few thou shall give less inheritance. Wherever the lot falls to any man, that shall be his. Ye shall inherit ac

Joshua 14:2by the lot of their inheritance, as LORD commanded by Moses, for the nine tribes, and for the half-tribe.

Joshua 18:10And Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before LORD. And there Joshua divided the land to the sons of Israel according to their divisions.

Proverbs 16:33The lot is cast into the lap, but the whole disposing thereof is of LORD.

Acts 13:19And having destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, he allotted their land to them.

Matthew Henry on Joshua 18:3-11

The Tabernacle at Shiloh. ( b. c. 1444.) 1 And the whole congregation of the children of Israel assembled together at Shiloh, and set up the tabernacle of the congregation there. And the land was subdued before them. In the midst of the story of the dividing of the land comes in this account of the setting up of the tabernacle, which had hitherto continued in its old place in the centre of their camp; but now that three of the four squadrons that used to surround it in the wilderness were broken and diminished,… Read the whole commentary →

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