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Appoint for yourselves three men from each tribe. I will send them, and they shall arise, walk through the land, and describe it according to their inheritance; then they shall come to me.
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Verse 4. Tribe: it is not clear whether any but these seven were concerned.—Out. Josephus says, that people well skilled in geometry accompanied them. Calmet.—They had to mark out seven portions of land, which might suffice for these remaining tribes, ( Bible.) who would receive them by lot, to take away all cause of discontent. They still received according to their numbers. Numbers 26:54. Worthington.
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