"Providefor yourselves threemenfrom each tribethat I may sendthem, and that they may ariseand walkthrough the landand writea description of it accordingto their inheritance;then they shall returnto me.
"Thereforeyou will havenoone stretchinga measuringlineFor you by lotin the assemblyof the LORD.
"With you, moreover, there shall be a manof eachtribe,eachoneheadof his father'shousehold.
"Sendout for yourself menso that they may spyout the landof Canaan,whichI am going to giveto the sonsof Israel;you shall senda manfrom eachof their fathers'tribes,everyonea leaderamong them."
So Joshuasaidto the sonsof Israel,"Howlongwill you putoffenteringto takepossessionof the landwhichthe LORD,the Godof your fathers,has givenyou?
"They shall divideit into sevenportions;Judahshall stayin its territoryon the south,and the houseof Josephshall stayin their territoryon the north.
"You shall describethe landin sevendivisions,and bring[the description] hereto me. I will castlotsfor you herebeforethe LORDour God.
So the menwentand passedthrough the land,and describedit by citiesin sevendivisionsin a book;and they cameto Joshuato the campat Shiloh.
"Nowthen, takefor yourselves twelvemenfrom the tribesof Israel,onemanfor eachtribe.
"Takefor yourselves twelvemenfrom the people,onemanfrom eachtribe,
