Appointed Officials

¹⁶ The Lord said to Moses: ¹⁷ “These are the names of the men who are to allocate the land to you as an inheritance:^[a] Eleazar the priest and Joshua son of Nun. ¹⁸ You must take one leader from every^[b] tribe to assist in allocating the land as an inheritance.^{[c] 19} These are the names of the men: from the tribe of Judah, Caleb son of Jephunneh; ²⁰ from the tribe of the Simeonites, Shemuel son of Ammihud; ²¹ from the tribe of Benjamin, Elidad son of Kislon; ²² and from the tribe of the Danites, a leader, Bukki son of Jogli. ²³ From the Josephites, Hanniel son of Ephod, a leader from the tribe of Manasseh; ²⁴ from the tribe of the Ephraimites, a leader, Kemuel son of Shiphtan; ²⁵ from the tribe of the Zebulunites, a leader, Elizaphan son of Parnach; ²⁶ from the tribe of the Issacharites, a leader, Paltiel son of Azzan; ²⁷ from the tribe of the Asherites, a leader, Ahihud son of Shelomi; ²⁸ and from the tribe of the Naphtalites, a leader, Pedahel son of Ammihud.” ²⁹ These are the ones whom the Lord commanded to divide up the inheritance among the Israelites in the land of Canaan.