¹⁵ for all the land that you see I will give to you and to your offspring forever.^(A)

⁷ Then the Lord appeared to Abram and said, “To your offspring I will give this land.” So he built there an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him.^(A)

⁷ Did you not, O our God, drive out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel and give it forever to the descendants of your friend Abraham?^(A)

⁵ He did not give him any of it as a heritage, not even a foot’s length, but promised to give it to him as his possession and to his descendants after him, even though he had no child.^(A)

⁷ You are the Lord, the God who chose Abram and brought him out of Ur of the Chaldeans and gave him the name Abraham;^{(A) 8} and you found his heart faithful before you and made with him a covenant to give to his descendants the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite, and the Girgashite, and you have fulfilled your promise, for you are righteous.^(B)

⁴ The Lord said to him, “This is the land of which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, ‘I will give it to your descendants.’ I have let you see it with your eyes, but you shall not cross over there.”^(A)

² you shall take some of the first of all the fruit of the ground, which you harvest from the land that the Lord your God is giving you, and you shall put it in a basket and go to the place that the Lord your God will choose as a dwelling for his name.^{(A) 3} You shall go to the priest who is in office at that time and say to him, ‘Today I declare to the Lord your God that I have come into the land that the Lord swore to our ancestors to give us.’ ⁴ When the priest takes the basket from your hand and sets it down before the altar of the Lord your God,

¹² and the boundary shall go down to the Jordan, and its end shall be at the Dead Sea.^[a] This shall be your land with its boundaries all around.”

¹³ Moses commanded the Israelites, saying, “This is the land that you shall apportion by lot, which the Lord has commanded to give to the nine tribes and to the half-tribe,^{(A) 14} for the tribe of the Reubenites by their ancestral houses and the tribe of the Gadites by their ancestral houses have taken their inheritance and also the half-tribe of Manasseh;^{(B) 15} the two tribes and the half-tribe have taken their inheritance beyond the Jordan at Jericho eastward, toward the sunrise.”

Tribal Leaders

¹⁶ The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ¹⁷ “These are the names of the men who shall apportion the land to you for inheritance: the priest Eleazar and Joshua son of Nun.^{(C) 18} You shall take one leader of every tribe to apportion the land for inheritance.^{(D) 19} These are the names of the men: Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb son of Jephunneh. ²⁰ Of the tribe of the Simeonites, Shemuel son of Ammihud. ²¹ Of the tribe of Benjamin, Elidad son of Chislon. ²² Of the tribe of the Danites a leader, Bukki son of Jogli. ²³ Of the Josephites: of the tribe of the Manassites a leader, Hanniel son of Ephod, ²⁴ and of the tribe of the Ephraimites a leader, Kemuel son of Shiphtan. ²⁵ Of the tribe of the Zebulunites a leader, Eli-zaphan son of Parnach. ²⁶ Of the tribe of the Issacharites a leader, Paltiel son of Azzan. ²⁷ And of the tribe of the Asherites a leader, Ahihud son of Shelomi. ²⁸ Of the tribe of the Naphtalites a leader, Pedahel son of Ammihud. ²⁹ These were the ones whom the Lord commanded to apportion the inheritance for the Israelites in the land of Canaan.”