1. The entire Israelite community assembled at Shiloh where it set up the tent of meeting there; the land had been subdued by them.
2. Seven tribes among the Israelites were left who had not divided up their inheritance.
3. So Joshua said to the Israelites, “How long will you delay going out to take possession of the land that the Lord, the God of your fathers, gave you?
4. Appoint for yourselves three men from each tribe, and I will send them out. They are to go and survey the land, write a description of it for the purpose of their inheritance, and return to me.
5. Then they are to divide it into seven portions. Judah is to remain in its territory in the south and Joseph’s family in their territory in the north.
6. When you have written a description of the seven portions of land and brought it to me, I will cast lots for you here in the presence of the Lord our God.
7. But the Levites among you do not get a portion, because their inheritance is the priesthood of the Lord. Gad, Reuben, and half the tribe of Manasseh have taken their inheritance beyond the Jordan to the east, which Moses the Lord’s servant gave them.”