Joshua 18:4

Pick out from among you three men from each tribe: and I will send them, and they shall rise, and go through the land, and survey it according to their inheritance; and they shall come again to me.

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George Leo Haydock

AD 1849

Tribe: it is not clear whether any but these seven were concerned. Out. Josephus says, that people well skilled in geometry accompanied them. (Calmet) They had to mark out seven portions of land, which might suffice for these remaining tribes, (Haydock) who would receive them by lot, to take away all cause of discontent. They still received according to their numbers, Numbers xxvi. 54. (Worthington)

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