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 Stadjake aboramely 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 Manasseh 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 Manasseh, and the other half inherited part of the original promised

land across the Jordan.

We'll call that West Manasseh.

But during a division process for the land, the people who will become West Manasseh

get slumped 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.

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