Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble and I'm your host for the Bible Recap.

Today we continue looking at the land allotments for the tribes.

Remember, they've been waiting 40 years for this.

They've been fighting for this, quite literally.

These assignments are where they will build their lives and raise their families.

If you've ever been in a military family or you've ever waited to find out where your residency is or to see what

colleges have accepted you, you might know a little bit about how this feels,

but chances are you weren't waiting 40 years to find out where you'd live.

Plus for the Israelites, this wasn't a temporary placement. This was marked out as the home of the people of their tribe forever,

provided they kept up their end of the covenant they made with God.

Since many of the ways these places are referred to in scripture mean nothing to us, I'm going to give a short description of each place we see today.

Imagine you're one of the seven tribes who haven't gotten their land yet, and you're waiting to find out where your family will live.

We're also including that general map of the tribal allotments again in today's show notes.

Simeon gets the land assigned in the midst of Judah's plot of desert in the south.

Pass.

Zeppelin gets a tiny plot in the north.

It's the smallest plot besides Benjamin's.

But it's a lush green area with lots of plants and

flowers. By the way, you may have noticed that Zebulen got the city of Bethlehem,

but that's a different Bethlehem than the one you're probably most familiar with.

There are two Bethlehem's in the promised land.

And this one in Sebulen is further north than the one where Jesus was born.

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