Let the people go — When he had distributed their inheritances, and dismissed them severally to take possession of them. This was done before this time, whilst Joshua lived; but is now repeated to discover the time, and occasion of the peoples defection from God, and of God's desertion of them.
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Judges 2:6
6 And when Joshua had let the people go, the children of Israel went every man unto his inheritance to possess the land.