6and ye shall describe the land into seven portions, and bring the description hither to me, and I will cast lots for you here before Jehovah our God.


In Context

3 And Joshua said to the children of Israel, How long will ye shew yourselves slack to go to take possession of the land which Jehovah the God of your fathers hath given you?

4 Provide you three men for a tribe; that I may send them, and they shall rise and go through the land, and describe it according to the proportion of their inheritance, and they shall come to me.

5 And they shall divide it into seven portions. Judah shall remain in their border on the south, and the house of Joseph shall remain in their border on the north;

6 and ye shall describe the land into seven portions, and bring the description hither to me, and I will cast lots for you here before Jehovah our God.

7 But the Levites have no portion among you, for the priesthood of Jehovah is their inheritance. And Gad, and Reuben, and half the tribe of Manasseh have received their inheritance beyond the Jordan on the east, which Moses the servant of Jehovah gave them.

8 And the men arose and went away. And Joshua charged them that went to describe the land, saying, Go and walk through the land, and describe it, and come again to me, and I will cast lots for you here before Jehovah in Shiloh.

Joshua 18:6 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

18:6After you have written descriptions of the seven parts of the land, bring them here to me and I will cast lots for you in the presence of the Lord our God.

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

18:6Ye shall therefore describe the land [into] seven parts, and bring [the description] hither to me, that I may cast lots for you here before the LORD our God.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

18:6The land in the midst between these mark ye out into seven parts; and you shall come hither to me, that I may cast lots for you before the Lord your God.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

18:6And ye shall describe the land into seven portions, and bring the description hither to me; and I will cast lots for you here before Jehovah our God.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

18:6And ye shall describe the land into seven portions, and bring the description hither to me: and I will cast lots for you here before the LORD our God.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

18:6Ye shall therefore describe the land in seven parts, and bring the description hither to me, that I may cast lots for you here before the LORD our God.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

18:6You shall survey the land into seven parts, and bring the description here to me; and I will cast lots for you here before Yahweh our God.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

18:6and ye describe the land in seven portions, and have brought it in unto me hither, and I have cast for you a lot here before Jehovah our God;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

18:6You shall therefore describe the land into seven parts, and bring the description here to me, that I may cast lots for you here before the LORD our God.