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boundary ran along the Jordan River, extended as far north as the tip of the
Sea of Galilee, and then turned eastward. 28 The towns and their surrounding
villages in this area were given as a homeland to the clans of the tribe of Gad.
The Land Given to the Half-Tribe of Manasseh
29 Moses had assigned the following area to the clans of the half-tribe of Manasseh.
Their territory extended from Mahanaim, including all of Bashan, all the
former kingdom of King Og, and the sixty towns of Jair in Bashan. 31 It also
included half of Gilead and King Og’s royal cities of Ashtaroth and Edrei. All
this was given to the clans of the descendants of Makir, who was Manasseh’s
son.
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These are the allotments Moses had made while he was on the plains of
Moab, across the Jordan River, east of Jericho.
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But Moses gave no allotment of land
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to the tribe of Levi, for the LORD, the God of Israel,
had promised that he himself
would be their allotment.
The Land Divided West of the Jordan
The remaining tribes of Israel received land in Canaan as allotted by Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the tribal leaders. 2 These nine and
a half tribes received their grants of land by means of sacred lots, in accordance
with the Lord’s command through Moses. 3 Moses had already given a grant of
land to the two and a half tribes on the east side of the Jordan River, but he had
given the Levites no such allotment. 4 The descendants of Joseph had become two
separate tribes—Manasseh and Ephraim. And the Levites were given no land at
all, only towns to live in with surrounding pasturelands for their livestock and
all their possessions. 5 So the land was distributed in strict accordance with the
Lord’s commands to Moses.
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Caleb Requests His Land
6 A delegation from the tribe of Judah, led by Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite, came to Joshua at Gilgal. Caleb said to Joshua, “Remember what the Lord said
to Moses, the man of God, about you and me when we were at Kadesh-barnea. 7 I
was forty years old when Moses, the servant of the Lord, sent me from Kadeshbarnea to explore the land of Canaan. I returned and gave an honest report, 8 but
my brothers who went with me frightened the people from entering the Promised
Land.
For my part,
I wholeheartedly followed
theL ORD my God.
