Josh 18:9

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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. into seven.

Ac 13:19