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.


In Context

3 And Joshua said to the children of Israel, How long are ye slack to go to possess the land which the LORD God of your fathers hath given you?

4 Select from among you three men for each tribe: and I will send them, and they shall rise, and go through the land, and describe it according to the inheritance of them, and they shall come again to me.

5 And they shall divide it into seven parts: Judah shall abide in their border on the south, and the house of Joseph shall abide in their borders on the north.

6 Ye 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.

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

8 And the men arose, and departed: 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, that I may here cast lots for you before the LORD 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 Darby Bible Translation 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 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.