Joshua 18:2-7

Christian Standard Bible

² but seven tribes among the Israelites were left who had not divided up their inheritance. ³ So Joshua asked the Israelites, “How long will you delay going out to take possession of the land that the Lord, the God of your ancestors, gave you?^{(A) 4} Appoint for yourselves three men from each tribe, and I will send them out. They are to go and survey the land, write a description of it for the purpose of their inheritance, and return to me. ⁵ Then they are to divide it into seven portions. Judah is to remain in its territory in the south and Joseph’s family in their territory in the north.^{(B) 6} When you have written a description of the seven portions of land and brought it to me, I will cast lots^(C) for you here in the presence of the Lord our God.^{(D) 7} But the Levites among you do not get a portion, because their inheritance is the priesthood of the Lord.^(E) Gad, Reuben, and half the tribe of Manasseh have taken their inheritance beyond the Jordan to the east, which Moses the Lord’s servant gave them.”