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Numbers 26:54

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

so the larger tribes have more land than the smaller ones.

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“Divide the land of Canaan among these tribes, according to the number of people in each one,

“The LORD has helped us capture the land around the towns of Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sebam, Nebo, and Beon. That's good pasture land, and since we own cattle and sheep,

would you let us stay here east of the River Jordan and have this land as our own?”

I will show you how to divide the land among the tribes, according to the number of clans in each one, so that the larger tribes will have more land than the smaller ones.

Since the towns for the Levites must come from Israel's own tribal lands, the larger tribes will give more towns than the smaller ones.

One day the Joseph tribes came to Joshua and asked, “Why didn't you give us more land? The LORD has always been kind to us, and we have too many people for this small region.”

Simeon's tribal land was actually inside Judah's territory. Judah had received too much land for the number of people in its tribe, so part of Judah's land was given to Simeon.




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