A Surveyor's Favorite Passage
Numbers 34
Here God spells out the boundaries of the promised land to Moses and tells him to use lots to determine which tribe gets what. The land is to be distributed between the 9 1/2 tribes planning on living in Canaan since Reuben, Gad, and Manasseh opted to get their land before getting there. God also assigns leaders from each tribe to help distribute ownership within the tribes.
God seems cool with the choice of those tribes to opt out of Canaan, which seems a little odd when considering His reaction in earlier chapters when His followers wanted to pass on the reward He had promised. Perhaps the key here is that these tribes didn't give up on God, and they still did their part helping claim Canaan for the rest of the wanderers.
This passage may be really interesting if you're into geography. I'm not. But it does once again emphasize that even if promises are a long time coming, God fulfills them in the end.
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