2By lot was their inheritance, as the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses, for the nine tribes, and for the half-tribe.


In Context

1 And these are the countries which the children of Israel inherited in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel distributed for inheritance to them.

2 By lot was their inheritance, as the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses, for the nine tribes, and for the half-tribe.

3 For Moses had given the inheritance of two tribes and a half-tribe on the other side of Jordan: but to the Levites he gave no inheritance among them.

4 For the children of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim: therefore they gave no part to the Levites in the land, save cities to dwell in, with their suburbs for their cattle, and for their substance.

Joshua 14:2 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

14:2Their inheritances were assigned by lot to the nine-and-a-half tribes, as the Lord had commanded through Moses.

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

14:2By lot [was] their inheritance, as the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses, for the nine tribes, and [for] the half tribe.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

14:2Dividing all by lot, as the Lord had commanded by the hand of Moses, to the nine tribes, and the half tribe.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

14:2by the lot of their inheritance, as Jehovah commanded by Moses, for the nine tribes, and for the half-tribe.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

14:2their inheritance was by lot, as Jehovah had commanded by Moses, for the nine tribes, and the half tribe.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

14:2by the lot of their inheritance, as the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses, for the nine tribes, and for the half tribe.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

14:2by the lot of their inheritance, as Yahweh commanded by Moses, for the nine tribes, and for the half-tribe.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

14:2by lot is their inheritance, as Jehovah commanded by the hand of Moses, for the nine of the tribes, and the half of the tribe;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

14:2By lot was their inheritance, as the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses, for the nine tribes, and for the half tribe.