Joshua 14:4

The descendants of Joseph had become two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim. The Levites were not given any land, only towns to live in and pasture for their flocks and herds.

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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

3Moses had allotted land to the two and a half tribes east of the Jordan but he had made no allocation to the Levites among them.

5So the Israelites followed the instructions the Lord had given Moses in allocating the land.

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Cross References

Genesis 41:52His second son he named Ephraim, because he said, “God has made me fruitful in the country of my misery.”

Genesis 48:6Any other children you have after them will be yours, and will share their inheritance within the land of their older brothers.

Joshua 16:4This was the allocation received by the descendants of Joseph, Ephraim and Manasseh.

1 Chronicles 5:1The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel. (Though he was the firstborn, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph son of Israel because he had defiled his father's bed. That is why Reuben is not listed in the genealogy according to birthright,

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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