⁶The land in the midst between these mark ye out into seven parts; and you shall come hither to me, that I may cast lots for you before the Lord your God.

⁷For the Levites have no part among you, but the priesthood of the Lord is their inheritance. And Gad and Ruben, and the half tribe of Manasses have already received their possessions beyond the Jordan eastward: which Moses the servant of the Lord gave them.

⁸And when the men were risen up, to go to mark out the land, Josue commanded them saying: Go round the land and mark it out, and return to me: that I may cast lots for you before the Lord in Silo.

⁹So they went and surveying it divided it into seven parts, writing them down in a book. And they returned to Josue, to the camp in Silo.

¹⁰And he cast lots before the Lord in Silo, and divided the land to the children of Israel into seven parts.

¹¹And first came up the lot of the children of Benjamin by their families, to possess the land between the children of Juda, and the children of Joseph.

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