Joshua 22:1-24:33

With the tribes of Israel living in the lands allotted to them and with the deaths of Joshua, second generation leader, and Eleazar, second generation leading priest, the patriarchs’ story comes to an end (Joshua 24:29-33). As a sign of that completion Joseph’s skeletal remains are buried at Shechem in a tract of land that Jacob had bought more than 400 years beforehand. Even the bones of the ancestors are at rest.