Their mission completed, the representatives from the seven tribes return to Joshua at Shiloh, and he assigns each of the seven tribes a part of the territory, as determined by the drawing of lots. Here Joshua acts alone; at the end of the process (19.51) the writer includes the priest Eleazar and the tribal leaders in the action.

To consult the LORD for them may be translated “to find out how the LORD wanted the land divided” or “to find out from the LORD how to divide the land.”

And assigned each of the remaining tribes of Israel a certain part of the land may be translated as a separate sentence: “Then he assigned a certain part of the land to each of the remaining tribes of Israel.”

Quoted with permission from Bratcher, Robert G. and Newman, Barclay M. A Handbook on Joshua. (UBS Helps for Translators). New York: UBS, 1983. For this and other handbooks for translators see here .