Joshua 20:1
Israel Designates Cities of Refuge
20:1 The Lord instructed Joshua:
Joshua 12:6
12:6 Moses the Lord’s servant and the Israelites defeated them and Moses the Lord’s servant assigned their land 1 to Reuben, Gad, and the half tribe of Manasseh.
Joshua 17:4
17:4 They went before Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the leaders and said, “The
Lord told Moses to assign us land among our relatives.”
2 So Joshua
3 assigned them land among their uncles, as the
Lord had commanded.
4
Joshua 7:7
7:7 Joshua prayed,
5 “O, Master,
Lord! Why did you bring these people across the Jordan to hand us over to the Amorites so they could destroy us?
Joshua 14:6
14:6 The men of Judah approached Joshua in Gilgal, and Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, “You know what the Lord said about you and me to Moses, the man of God, at Kadesh Barnea. 6
1 tn Heb “gave it for a possession.”
1 tn Heb “The Lord commanded Moses to assign to us an inheritance in the midst of our brothers.” Since Zelophehad had no sons, “brothers” must refer to their uncles, as the next sentence makes clear.
2 tn Heb “he.” The referent is probably Joshua, although Eleazar is mentioned first in the preceding list.
3 tn Heb “and he assigned to them in accordance with the mouth [i.e., command] of the Lord an inheritance in the midst of the brothers of their father.”
1 tn Heb “said.”
1 tn Heb “You know the word which the Lord spoke to Moses, the man of God, because of me and because of you in Kadesh Barnea.”