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New Revised Standard

Joshua 14:5

The Israelites did as the Lord commanded Moses; they allotted the land.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Torrey's Topical Textbook - Holy Land;   Jews, the;   Tribes of Israel, the;  

Dictionaries:

- Holman Bible Dictionary - Joshua, the Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Joshua;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Caleb;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Conquest of Canaan;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Joshua (2);   Joshua, Book of;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
So the Israelites did as the Lord commanded Moses, and they divided the land.
Hebrew Names Version
As the LORD commanded Moshe, so the children of Yisra'el did; and they divided the land.
King James Version
As the Lord commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did, and they divided the land.
Lexham English Bible
Just as Yahweh commanded Moses, so the Israelites did; and they allotted the land.
English Standard Version
The people of Israel did as the Lord commanded Moses; they allotted the land.
New Century Version
The Lord had told Moses how to give the land to the tribes of Israel, and the Israelites divided the land.
New English Translation
The Israelites followed the Lord 's instructions to Moses and divided up the land.
Amplified Bible
The Israelites did just as the LORD had commanded Moses, and they divided the land.
New American Standard Bible
The sons of Israel did exactly as the LORD had commanded Moses, and they divided the land.
Geneva Bible (1587)
As the Lord had commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did when they deuided the land.
Legacy Standard Bible
Thus the sons of Israel did just as Yahweh had commanded Moses, and they divided the land.
Complete Jewish Bible
As Adonai had ordered Moshe, so the people of Isra'el did — they divided the land.
Darby Translation
As Jehovah had commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did, and they divided the land.
Easy-to-Read Version
The Lord had told Moses how to divide the land among the tribes of Israel. The Israelites divided the land the way the Lord had commanded.
George Lamsa Translation
As the LORD commanded Moses, so did the children of Israel, and they divided the land.
Good News Translation
The people of Israel divided the land as the Lord had commanded Moses.
Literal Translation
as Jehovah commanded Moses, so the sons of Israel did, and they allotted the land.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Euen as the LORDE comaunded Moses, so dyd the childre of Israel, and deuyded the londe.
American Standard Version
As Jehovah commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did; and they divided the land.
Bible in Basic English
As the Lord had given orders to Moses, so the people of Israel did, and they made division of the land.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
As the Lord commaunded Moyses: euen so the children of Israel dyd, when they deuided the lande.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
As the LORD commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did, and they divided the land.
King James Version (1611)
As the Lord commaunded Moses, so the children of Israel did, and they diuided the land.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
As the Lord commanded Moses, so did the children of Israel; and they divided the land.
English Revised Version
As the LORD commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did, and they divided the land.
Berean Standard Bible
So the Israelites did as the LORD had commanded Moses, and they divided the land.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
As the Lord comaundide to Moises, so the sones of Israel diden, and departiden the lond.
Young's Literal Translation
as Jehovah commanded Moses, so have the sons of Israel done, and they apportion the land.
Update Bible Version
As Yahweh commanded Moses, so the sons of Israel did; and they divided the land.
Webster's Bible Translation
As the LORD commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did, and they divided the land.
World English Bible
As Yahweh commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did; and they divided the land.
New King James Version
As the LORD had commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did; and they divided the land.
New Living Translation
So the land was distributed in strict accordance with the Lord 's commands to Moses.
New Life Bible
The people of Israel did just as the Lord had told Moses. They divided the land.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
As Yahweh commanded Moses, so, did the sons of Israel, - when they apportioned the land.
Douay-Rheims Bible
As the Lord had commanded Moses so did the children of Israel, and they divided the land.
Revised Standard Version
The people of Israel did as the LORD commanded Moses; they allotted the land.
THE MESSAGE
The People of Israel followed through exactly as God had commanded Moses. They apportioned the land.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Thus the sons of Israel did just as the LORD had commanded Moses, and they divided the land.

Contextual Overview

1 These are the inheritances that the Israelites received in the land of Canaan, which the priest Eleazar, and Joshua son of Nun, and the heads of the families of the tribes of the Israelites distributed to them. 2 Their inheritance was by lot, as the Lord had commanded Moses for the nine and one-half tribes. 3 For Moses had given an inheritance to the two and one-half tribes beyond the Jordan; but to the Levites he gave no inheritance among them. 4 For the people of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim; and no portion was given to the Levites in the land, but only towns to live in, with their pasture lands for their flocks and herds. 5 The Israelites did as the Lord commanded Moses; they allotted the land.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Cross-References

Genesis 14:10
Now the Valley of Siddim was full of bitumen pits; and as the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, some fell into them, and the rest fled to the hill country.
Genesis 14:11
So the enemy took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their provisions, and went their way;
Genesis 14:20
and blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand!" And Abram gave him one-tenth of everything.
Genesis 14:23
that I would not take a thread or a sandal-thong or anything that is yours, so that you might not say, ‘I have made Abram rich.'
Genesis 15:20
the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim,
Deuteronomy 1:4
This was after he had defeated King Sihon of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, and King Og of Bashan, who reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei.
Deuteronomy 3:11
(Now only King Og of Bashan was left of the remnant of the Rephaim. In fact his bed, an iron bed, can still be seen in Rabbah of the Ammonites. By the common cubit it is nine cubits long and four cubits wide.)
Deuteronomy 3:20
When the Lord gives rest to your kindred, as to you, and they too have occupied the land that the Lord your God is giving them beyond the Jordan, then each of you may return to the property that I have given to you."
Deuteronomy 3:22
Do not fear them, for it is the Lord your God who fights for you."
Joshua 12:4
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Gill's Notes on the Bible

As the Lord commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did,.... Particularly with respect to the division of the land, and making provision for the Levites; this they did by their heads and representatives, the high priest and chief ruler, and the princes of the several tribes:

and they divided the land; met about it, and began to take measures in order to do it; they prepared for it, though as yet it was not actually done, and previous to it was the following incident.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Joshua 14:5. They divided the land. — This work was begun some time before at Gilgal, and was finished some time after at Shiloh. It must have required a very considerable time to make all the geographical arrangements that were necessary for this purpose.


 
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