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

For Moses had given the inheritance of two tribes and an half tribe on the other side Jordan: but unto the Levites he gave none inheritance among them.

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

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Their inheritances were assigned by lot(A) to the nine and a half tribes,(B) as the Lord had commanded through Moses. Moses had granted the two and a half tribes their inheritance east of the Jordan(C) but had not granted the Levites an inheritance among the rest,(D) for Joseph’s descendants had become two tribes—Manasseh and Ephraim.(E) The Levites received no share of the land but only towns to live in, with pasturelands for their flocks and herds.(F)

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