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Others will set your boundaries then,
    and the Lord’s people will have no say
    in how the land is divided.

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Select three men from each tribe, and I will send them out to explore the land and map it out. They will then return to me with a written report of their proposed divisions of their new homeland.

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When the Most High assigned lands to the nations,
    when he divided up the human race,
he established the boundaries of the peoples
    according to the number in his heavenly court.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 32:8 As in Dead Sea Scrolls, which read the number of the sons of God, and Greek version, which reads the number of the angels of God; Masoretic Text reads the number of the sons of Israel.

10 And there at Shiloh, Joshua cast sacred lots in the presence of the Lord to determine which tribe should have each section.

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You may no longer stay here in the Lord’s land.
    Instead, you will return to Egypt,
and in Assyria you will eat food
    that is ceremonially unclean.

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The land you have given me is a pleasant land.
    What a wonderful inheritance!

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61 Another group returned at this time from the towns of Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Kerub, Addan,[a] and Immer. However, they could not prove that they or their families were descendants of Israel.

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Footnotes

  1. 7:61 As in parallel text at Ezra 2:59; Hebrew reads Addon.

The third generation of Edomites and Egyptians may enter the assembly of the Lord.

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“If a person is illegitimate by birth, neither he nor his descendants for ten generations may be admitted to the assembly of the Lord.

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