So each of your tribes should choose three men. I will send them out to study the land. They will describe that land, and then they will come back to me.
So the men went into the land. As they walked through it, they wrote down what they saw. They listed all the cities and divided the land into seven parts. Then they went back to Joshua at Shiloh.
But you should describe the land and divide it into seven parts. Bring the map to me, and we will throw lots to let the Lord our God decide how to divide the land among the tribes.
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.