Joshua 18:9 (KJV)

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And the men went and passed through the land and described it by cities into seven parts in a book and came again to Joshua to the host at Shiloh

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into seven. Ac 13:19

described.The surveyors seem to have formed some kind of map of the country, as well as a description of it in writing. The Egyptians, from the situation of their fields, as annually overflowed by the Nile, acquired great skill in mensuration and land surveying; and some of the Israelites had, no doubt, learned these from them, without a knowledge of which they could not properly have divided the land. This is probably the first act of surveying on record.

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