The two tribes and the half tribe have received their inheritance on this side Jordan near Jericho eastward, toward the sunrising.
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Canaan was of small extent; as it is here bounded, it is but about 160 miles in length, and about 50 in breadth; yet this was the country promised to the father of the faithful, and the possession of the seed of Israel. This was that little spot of ground, in which alone, for many ages, God was known.