^34:16The Lord said to Moses: ^34:17“These are the names of the men who are to allocate the land to you as an inheritance:¹⁶ Eleazar the priest and Joshua son of Nun. ^34:18You must take one leader from every¹⁷ tribe to assist in allocating the land as an inheritance.¹⁸^34:19These are the names of the men: from the tribe of Judah, Caleb son of Jephunneh; ^34:20from the tribe of the Simeonites, Shemuel son of Ammihud; ^34:21from the tribe of Benjamin, Elidad son of Kislon; ^34:22and from the tribe of the Danites, a leader, Bukki son of Jogli. ^34:23From the Josephites, Hanniel son of Ephod, a leader from the tribe of Manasseh; ^34:24from the tribe of the Ephraimites, a leader, Kemuel son of Shiphtan; ^34:25from the tribe of the Zebulunites, a leader, Elizaphan son of Parnach; ^34:26from the tribe of the Issacharites, a leader, Paltiel son of Azzan; ^34:27from the tribe of the Asherites, a leader, Ahihud son of Shelomi; ^34:28and from the tribe of the Naphtalites, a leader, Pedahel son of Ammihud.” ^34:29These are the ones whom the Lord commanded to divide up the inheritance among the Israelites in the land of Canaan.

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Footnotes

16 The verb can be translated simply as “divide,” but it has more the idea of allocate as an inheritance, the related noun being “inheritance.”
17 This sense is created by repetition: “one leader, one leader from the tribe.”
18 The sentence simply uses לִנְחֹל (linkhol, “to divide, apportion”). It has been taken already to mean “allocate as an inheritance.” Here “assist” may be added since Joshua and Eleazar had the primary work.