Psalms 135:12
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He gave their land as an inheritance, as a heritage to His people Israel.
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He drove out nations before them and apportioned their inheritance; He settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.
And you are to divide the land by lot according to your clans. Give a larger inheritance to a larger clan and a smaller inheritance to a smaller one. Whatever falls to each one by lot will be his. You will receive an inheritance according to the tribes of your fathers.
So Joshua took the entire land, in keeping with all that the LORD had spoken to Moses. And Joshua gave it as an inheritance to Israel according to the allotments to their tribes. Then the land had rest from war.
And these are the kings of the land that Joshua and the Israelites conquered beyond the Jordan to the west, from Baal-gad in the Valley of Lebanon to Mount Halak, which rises toward Seir (according to the allotments to the tribes of Israel, Joshua gave them as an inheritance
We took their land and gave it as an inheritance to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh.