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 Stad Jacob formally adopted Joseph's two sons, Ephraim and Manassa, so they essentially took over Joseph's place in the distribution of the inheritance.

Then at some point, the tribe of Manassa split in half and became two half tribes.

One half of them wanted to live east of the Jordan River as part of the Trans-Jordan tribes,

we'll call them East Manassa, and the other half inherited part of the original promised land across the Jordan.

We'll call that West Manassa.

But during a division process for the land,

the people who will become West Manassa

get slumped in with Ephraum 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 Promise Land, and just like we learned

about their brothers in East Manassa 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 Zilofa had 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 L.A.S. are about that land agreement,

and maybe they're nervous because Moses was the one they had originally talked to

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