Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble, and I'm your host for the Bible Recap.

We've been walking through land allotments for the 12 tribes, and today we start out with the land for the descendants of Joseph.

If you recall, Joseph's dad Jacob formally adopted

Joseph's two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, so they essentially took over Joseph's place in the

distribution of the inheritance. Then, at some point, the tribe of Manassas split in half and became

two half tribes. One half of them wanted to live east of the Jordan River as part of the

Transjordan tribes, we'll call them East to live east of the Jordan River as part of the trans-jordan tribes.

We'll call them East Manasseh, and the other half inherited part of the original promised land

across the Jordan. We'll call that West Manasa. But during the division process for the land,

the people who will become West Manasseh gets lumped in with Ephraim and they complain about it.

They want to be split off from each other and get land that reflects the size of each tribe.

I'm picturing one of those scenes in the movies where siblings share a bedroom and put tape

down the middle so they can mark out their own spot. Joshua agrees to their request for

division. He hands them the tape and tells them that they're responsible for clearing the land and driving out the people in it, even though they seem to be

bigger and stronger than them. The land they get is west of the Jordan River in the

promised land. And just like we learned about their brothers in East Manasseh yesterday, they don't drive

out all the Canaanites from the land. Since the Canaanites refused to leave, they make them do manual labor.

We also encountered the five daughters of Zalofahad again today.

The last time we saw them, they were marrying their cousins, which was part of the agreement

in order for them to get their part of the land inheritance, so the land can stay in the tribe.

They approached Joshua and Eliezer about that land agreement, so the land can stay in the tribe. They approached Joshua and

Eliezer about that land agreement, and maybe they're nervous because Moses was the one they had

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