And Joshua said unto the children of Israel, "How long are ye slack to go to possess the land which the LORD God of your fathers hath given you?

Now therefore, take for yourselves twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, out of every tribe a man.

"Take you twelve men out of the people, out of every tribe a man,

And with you there shall be a man of every tribe, every one head of the house of his fathers.

"Send thou men, that they may search the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel. Of every tribe of their fathers shall ye send a man, every one a ruler among them."

Ye shall therefore describe the land into seven parts and bring the description hither to me, that I may cast lots for you here before the LORD our God.

And the men went and passed through the land and described it by cities into seven parts in a book, and came again to Joshua to the host at Shiloh.