⁵ For this cause you will have no one to make the decision by the measuring line in the meeting of the Lord.

⁸ When the Most High gave the nations their heritage, separating into groups the children of men, he had the limits of the peoples marked out, keeping in mind the number of the children of Israel.

⁴ Take from among you three men from every tribe; and I will send them to go through the land and make a record of it for distribution as their heritage; then let them come back to me.

¹⁰ And Joshua made the distribution for them in Shiloh by the decision of the Lord, marking out the land for the children of Israel by their divisions.

² One whose father and mother are not married may not come into the meeting of the Lord's people, or any of his family to the tenth generation.

⁸ Their children in the third generation may come into the meeting of the Lord's people.

⁶¹ All these were the people who went up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer; but because they had no knowledge of their fathers' families or offspring, it was not certain if they were Israelites:

⁶ Fair are the places marked out for me; I have a noble heritage.

³ They will have no resting-place in the Lord's land, but Ephraim will go back to Egypt, and they will take unclean food in Assyria.