“Appoint three men from each tribe, and let me send them out to go through the land and describe it according to their inheritance, and come back to me.
“Therefore you shall have no one in the assembly of יהוה to divide the land by lot.
“And a man from every tribe should be with you, each one the head of his father’s house.
“Send men to spy out the land of Kenaʽ
So Yehoshua said to the children of Yisra’ĕ
“And they shall divide it into seven portions – Yehuḏ
and you shall describe the land in seven portions, and shall bring it to me. Then I shall cast lots for you here before יהוה our Elohim.
So the men went, and passed through the land, and described it in a book in seven portions by cities. And they came to Yehoshua at the camp in Shiloh.
“And now, take for yourselves twelve men from the tribes of Yisra’ĕ
“Take for yourselves twelve men from the people, one man from every tribe,