er that the children of Israel were grown strong, they
subdued the Chanaanites, and made them their tributaries, and they did
not kill them.

17:14. And the children of Joseph spoke to Josue, and said: Why hast
thou given me but one lot and one portion to possess, whereas I am of so
great a multitude, and the Lord hath blessed me?

17:15. And Josue said to them: If thou be a great people, go up into the
woodland, and cut down room for thyself in the land of the Pherezite and
the Raphaims: because the possession of mount Ephraim is too narrow for
thee.

17:16. And the children of Joseph answered him: We cannot go up to the
mountains, for the Chanaanites that dwell in the low lands, wherein are
situate Bethsan with its towns, and Jezrael in the midst of the valley,
have chariots of iron.

17:17. And Josue said to the house of Joseph, to Ephraim and Manasses:
Thou art a great people, and of great strength, thou shalt not have one
lot only:

17:18. But thou shalt pass to the mountain, and shalt cut down the wood,
and make thyself room to dwell in: and mayst proceed farther, when thou
hast destroyed the Chanaanites, who as thou sayest have iron chariots,
and are very strong.

Josue Chapter 18

Surveyors are sent to divide the rest of the land into seven tribes.
The lot of Benjamin.

18:1. And all the children of Israel assembled together in Silo, and
there they set up the tabernacle of the testimony, and the land was
subdued before them.

18:2. But there remained seven tribes of the children of Israel, which
as yet had not received their possessions.

18:3. And Josue said to them: How long are you indolent and slack, and
go not in to possess the land which the Lord the God of your fathers
hath given you?

18:4. Choose of every tribe three men, that I may send them, and they
may go and compass the land, and mark it out according to the number of
each multitude: and bring back to me what they have marked out.

18:5. Divide to yourselves the land into seven parts: let Juda be in his
bounds on the south side, and the house of Joseph on the north.

18:6. 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.

The land in the midst between these mark ye out into seven parts... That
is to say, the rest of the land, which is not already assigned to Juda
or Joseph.

18:7. For the Levites have no part among you, but