^{1 Ref} These are the inheritances which the children of Israel took in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers' [houses] of the tribes of the children of Israel, distributed to them,

^{2 Ref} by the lot of their inheritance, as Yahweh commanded by Moses, for the nine tribes, and for the half-tribe.

^{3 Ref} For Moses had given the inheritance of the two tribes and the half-tribe beyond the Jordan: but to the Levites he gave no inheritance among them.

^{4 Ref} For the children of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim: and they gave no portion to the Levites in the land, save cities to dwell in, with the suburbs of it for their cattle and for their substance.

^{5 Ref} As Yahweh commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did; and they divided the land.