--- title: "Introduction" description: "Now these are the portions that the Israelites inherited in the land of Canaan,..." image: "" book: "Joshua" bookId: "JOS" testament: "old" startChapter: 14 startVerse: 1 endChapter: 14 endVerse: 5 coversChapters: [14] aiTitle: "Introduction" aiDescription: "Now these are the portions that the Israelites inherited in the land of Canaan,..." hasAiStory: true location: "Canaan" persons: ["Israelites","Eleazar","Joshua","God","Moses","Levites","Joseph","Manasseh","Ephraim","Caleb"] hashtags: ["covenant","stewardship","guidance","deliverance"] genre: "history" readingTime: 1 type: "adaptive" slug: "JOS/introduction" canonicalId: "JOS.14.1-14.5" chronologicalOrder: 370 relatedSlugs: [] prevSlug: "JOS/the-inheritance-east-of-the-jordan" nextSlug: "JOS/caleb-requests-hebron" --- ### Land Division West of the Jordan Now these are the portions that the [Israelites](/persons/israelites) inherited in the land of Canaan, as distributed by [Eleazar](/persons/eleazar) the priest, [Joshua](/persons/joshua) son of Nun, and the heads of the families of the tribes of Israel. Their inheritance was assigned by lot for the nine and a half tribes, as the [LORD](/persons/god) had commanded through [Moses](/persons/moses). For Moses had given the inheritance east of the Jordan to the other two and a half tribes. But he granted no inheritance among them to the [Levites](/persons/levites). The descendants of [Joseph](/persons/joseph) became two tribes, [Manasseh](/persons/manasseh) and [Ephraim](/persons/ephraim). And no portion of the land was given to the Levites, except for cities in which to live, along with pasturelands for their flocks and herds. So the Israelites did as the LORD had commanded Moses, and they divided the land.

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