When the Most High divided the nations, when He separated the sons of Adam, He set the bounds of the nations according to the number of the angels of God.

Appoint of yourselves three men of each tribe, and let them rise up and go through the land, and let them describe it before me, as it will be proper to divide it.

And Joshua cast the lot for them in Shiloh before the Lord.

The lines have fallen to me in the best places; yea, I have a most excellent heritage.

They dwelt not in the Lord's land: Ephraim dwelt in Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things among the Assyrians.

[One born] of a harlot shall not enter into the assembly of the Lord.

If sons be born to them, in the third generation they shall enter into the assembly of the Lord.

And these went up from Tel Melah, Tel Harsha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer; but they could not declare the houses of their families, or their seed, whether they were of Israel.