So each of your family groups should choose three men. I will send those men out to study the land. They will describe that land, and then they will come back to me.
“Send some men to explore the land of Canaan. This is the land that I will give to the people of Israel. Send one leader from each of the twelve family groups.”
They will divide the land into seven parts. The people of Judah will keep their land in the south. The people of Joseph will keep their land in the north.
But you should describe the land and divide it into seven parts. Bring the map to me, and we will let the Lord our God decide which family group will get which land. [64]
So the men went into the land. The men went all through the land and wrote a description of it for Joshua. They listed all the cities and divided the land into seven parts. Then they went back to Joshua at Shiloh.