Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752

Josue 18:6-11 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

6. The 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.

7. For the Levites have no part among you, but the priesthood of the Lord is their inheritance. And Gad and Ruben, and the half tribe of Manasses have already received their possessions beyond the Jordan eastward: which Moses the servant of the Lord gave them.

8. And when the men were risen up, to go to mark out the land, Josue commanded them, saying: Go round the land and mark it out, and return to me: that I may cast lots for you before the Lord in Silo.

9. So they went: and surveying it divided it into seven parts, writing them down in a book. And they returned to Josue, to the camp in Silo.

10. And he cast lots before the Lord in Silo, and divided the land to the children of Israel into seven parts.

11. And first came up the lot of the children of Benjamin by their families, to possess the land between the children of Juda, and the children of Joseph.