"And when you divideby lotthe landfor inheritance,you shall offeran allotmentto the LORD,a holyportionof the land;the lengthshall be the lengthof 25,000[cubits], and the widthshall be 20,000It shall be holywithin allits boundaryroundabout.
Honorthe LORDfrom your wealthAnd from the firstof allyour produce;
He measuredon the eastsidewith the measuringreedfivehundredreedsby the measuringreed.
"Thisis the landwhichyou shall divideby lotto the tribesof Israelfor an inheritance,and theseare their [several] portions,"declaresthe LordGOD.
The land,moreover, shall not be soldpermanently,for the landis Mine; for you are [but] aliensand sojournerswith Me.
So Mosescommandedthe sonsof Israel,saying,"Thisis the landthat you are to apportionby lotamong you as a possession,whichthe LORDhas commandedto giveto the nineand a halftribes.
"Allthe inhabitantsof the hillcountryfrom Lebanonas faras Misrephoth-maim,allthe Sidonians,I will drivethem out from beforethe sonsof Israel;onlyallotit to Israelfor an inheritanceas I have commandedyou.
"Nowtherefore, apportionthislandfor an inheritanceto the ninetribesand the half-tribeof Manasseh."
Now theseare [the territories] whichthe sonsof Israelinheritedin the landof Canaan,whichEleazarthe priest,and Joshuathe sonof Nun,and the headsof the householdsof the tribesof the sonsof Israelapportionedto them for an inheritance,
by the lotof their inheritance,as the LORDcommandedthroughMoses,for the ninetribesand the half-tribe.
For Moseshad giventhe inheritanceof the twotribesand the half-tribebeyondthe Jordan;but he did not givean inheritanceto the Levitesamongthem.
