Jos 18:6, 9 | TSK | STEP | that I may cast.

Joshua 18:6

that I may cast.

8,10; 14:2; Nu 26:54,55; 33:54; 34:13; Ps 105:11; Pr 16:33; 18:18

Joshua 18:9

described.The surveyors seem to have formed some kind of map of the country, as well as a description of it in writing. The Egyptians, from the situation of their fields, as annually overflowed by the Nile, acquired great skill in mensuration and land surveying; and some of the Israelites had, no doubt, learned these from them, without a knowledge of which they could not properly have divided the land. This is probably the first act of surveying on record.

into seven.

Ac 13:19