1. The whole congregation of the children of Israel assembled at Shiloh and set up the tent of meeting there. The land was subdued before them.
2. Yet seven tribes among the children of Israel remained who had not yet received their inheritance.
3. So Joshua said to the children of Israel, “How long will you delay going in to possess the land that the Lord, the God of your fathers, has given you?
4. Select three men from each tribe, and I will send them out; and they will rise and go throughout the land, and describe it according to their inheritance, and they will come back to me.
5. They shall divide it into seven portions. Judah will stay in their territory in the south, and the house of Joseph will stay in their territory in the north.
6. So describe the land in seven portions and return to me. Then I will cast lots for you here before the Lord our God.