You must allot it as an inheritance among yourselves and for the foreigners who reside among you, who have fathered sons among you. You must treat them as native-born among the people of Israel; they will be allotted an inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel.<n id="1" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> spoke to Aaron, &#8220;You will have no inheritance in their land, nor will you have any portion of property<n id="1" /> among them &#8211; I am your portion and your inheritance among the Israelites.

See, I have given the Levites all the tithes in Israel for an inheritance, for their service which they perform &#8211; the service of the tent of meeting.

And you must tell the Israelites, &#8216;If a man dies<n id="1" /> and has no son, then you must transfer his inheritance to his daughter;

For we will not accept any inheritance on the other side of the Jordan River<n id="1" /> and beyond, because our inheritance has come to us on this eastern side of the Jordan.&#8221;p>

because the tribe of the Reubenites by their families,<n id="1" /> the tribe of the Gadites by their families, and half of the tribe of Manasseh have received their inheritance.

&#8220;Instruct the Israelites to give<n id="1" /> the Levites towns to live in from the inheritance the Israelites<n id="2" /> will possess. You must also give the Levites grazing land around the towns.

They were married into the families of the Manassehites, the descendants of Joseph, and their inheritance remained in the tribe of their father&#8217;s family.p>

You, however, the <sc>Lordsc> has selected and brought from Egypt, that iron-smelting furnace,<n id="1" /> to be his special people<n id="2" /> as you are today.

to dispossess nations greater and stronger than you and brought you here this day to give you their land as your property.<n id="1" />

I prayed to him:<n id="1" /> O, Lord <sc>Godsc>,<n id="2" /> do not destroy your people, your valued property<n id="3" /> that you have powerfully redeemed,<n id="4" /> whom you brought out of Egypt by your strength.<n id="5" />

for you have not yet come to the final stop<n id="1" /> and inheritance the <sc>Lordsc> your God is giving you.

You shall rejoice in the presence of the <sc>Lordsc> your God, along with your sons, daughters, male and female servants, and the Levites in your villages<n id="1" /> (since they have no allotment or inheritance with you).<n id="2" />

However, there should not be any poor among you, for the <sc>Lordsc><n id="1" /> will surely bless<n id="2" /> you in the land that he<n id="3" /> is giving you as an inheritance,<n id="4" />

You must not shed innocent blood<n id="1" /> in your land that the <sc>Lordsc> your God is giving you as an inheritance, for that would make you guilty.<n id="2" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">You must not encroach on your neighbor&#8217;s property,<n id="1" /> which will have been defined<n id="2" /> in the inheritance you will obtain in the land the <sc>Lordsc> your God is giving you.<n id="3" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">As for the cities of these peoples that<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc> your God is going to give you as an inheritance, you must not allow a single living thing<n id="2" /> to survive.

<t /><p class="bodytext">When<n id="1" /> you enter the land that the <sc>Lordsc> your God is giving you as an inheritance, and you occupy it and live in it,

<t /><p class="bodytext">The other half of Manasseh,<n id="1" /> Reuben, and Gad received their allotted tribal lands beyond the Jordan,<n id="2" /> just as Moses, the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s servant, had assigned them.

The border of the tribe of Reuben was the Jordan. The land allotted to the tribe of Reuben by its clans included these cities and their towns.<n id="1" />p>