¹ tn Heb “This is the inheritance of the tribe of the sons of Ephraim.”

¹ tn Heb “This is the inheritance of the tribe of the sons of Judah by their clans.”

¹ tn Heb “assigned to the tribe of Gad, to the sons of Gad.”

² sn “This land” refers to the trans-Jordanian lands allotted to these tribes.

¹ tc Heb “your heads, your tribes.” The Syriac presupposes either “heads of your tribes” or “your heads, your judges,” etc. (reading שֹׁפְטֵכֶם [shof^etekhem] for שִׁבְטֵיכֶם [shivtekhem]). Its comparative difficulty favors the originality of the MT reading. Cf. KJV “your captains of your tribes”; NRSV “the leaders of your tribes”; NLT “your tribal leaders.”

¹ tn This sense is created by repetition: “one leader, one leader from the tribe.”

¹ tn That is, the possession of land, or property, among the other families of their tribe.

³ tn Heb “one man one man of the tribe of his fathers.”

¹ tc Some scholars emend “tribe” to “sons.” Cf. Num 1:10.

¹ tn Here too the Hebrew text simply has “and the tribe of Benjamin.”

¹ tn This part has been supplied; the text simply has “the tribe of Zebulun.”

¹ sn The descendants of Gomer were all northern tribes of the Upper Euphrates.

¹ tn Heb “to the sons of Kohath who were left from the clan of the tribe, from the half of the tribe of the half of Manasseh by lot ten cities.”

¹ sn Half the tribe of Manasseh. The tribe of Manasseh split into clans, with half opting to settle in Bashan and the other half in Canaan (cf. Num 32:39-42; Josh 17:1-13).

¹ sn From the time the Law was given, the priesthood was the prerogative of the tribe of Levi. There were, however, members of other tribes who served as priests from time to time (see Judg 17:5).

⁴ tn The tribe (מַטֶּה, matteh or שֵׁבֶט, shevet) is the main category. The family groups or clans (מִשְׁפְּחֹת, mishp^ekhot) and the households or families (בֵּית אֲבֹת, bet ʾavot) were sub-divisions of the tribe.

¹ tn The verb שָׁכַן (shakhan) means “to settle,” but not necessarily as a permanent dwelling place. The tribal settlements by the sea would have been temporary and not the tribe’s territory.

⁴ tn In this context, tribes (φυλαί, phulai) could also be translated as “nations” or “peoples” (L&N 11.56).

⁵ sn Joseph (= Ephraim and Manasseh), as the most prominent of the Israelite tribes, represents the entire northern kingdom.

² sn Here Joseph (= Ephraim and Manasseh), as the most prominent of the Israelite tribes, represents the entire northern kingdom.