Yehoshua - Joshua
Chapter 18
1 And the whole congregation of the children of Israel
assembled themselves together at Shiloh, and set up the tent of meeting there;
and the land was subdued before them.
2 And there remained among the children of Israel seven
tribes, which had not yet received their inheritance.
3 And Joshua said unto the children of Israel: 'How long are
ye slack to go in to possess the land, which HaShem, the G-d of your fathers,
hath given you?
4 Appoint for you three men for each tribe; and I will send
them, and they shall arise, and walk through the land, and describe it according
to their inheritance; and they shall come unto me.
5 And they shall divide it into seven portions: Judah shall
abide in his border on the south, and the house of Joseph shall abide in their
border on the north.
6 And ye shall describe the land into seven portions, and
bring the description hither to me; and I will cast lots for you here before
HaShem our G-d.
7 For the Levites have no portion among you, for the
priesthood of HaShem is their inheritance; and Gad and Reuben and the half-tribe
of Manasseh have received their inheritance beyond the Jordan eastward, which
Moses the servant of HaShem gave them.'
8 And the men arose, and went; and Joshua charged them that
went to describe the land, saying: 'Go and walk through the land, and describe
it, and come back to me, and I will cast lots for you here before HaShem in
Shiloh.'
9 And the men went and passed through the land, and described
it by cities into seven portions in a book, and they came to Joshua unto the
camp at Shiloh.
10 And Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before HaShem; and
there Joshua divided the land unto the children of Israel according to their
divisions.
11 And the lot of the tribe of the children of Benjamin came
up according to their families; and the border of their lot went out between the
children of Judah and the children of Joseph.
12 And their border on the north side was from the Jordan;
and the border went up to the side of Jericho on the north, and went up through
the hill-country westward; and the goings out thereof were at the wilderness of
Beth-aven.
13 And the border passed along from thence to Luz, to the
side of Luz--the same is Beth-el--southward; and the border went down to
Atroth-addar, by the mountain that lieth on the south of Beth-horon the nether.
14 And the border was drawn and turned about on the west side
southward, from the mountain that lieth before Beth-horon southward; and the
goings out thereof were at Kiriath-baal--the same is Kiriath-jearim--a city of
the children of Judah; this was the west side.
15 And the south side was from the uttermost part of
Kiriath-jearim, and the border went out westward, and went out to the fountain
of the waters of Nephtoah.
16 And the border went down to the uttermost part of the
mountain that lieth before the Valley of the son of Hinnom, which is in the vale
of Rephaim northward; and it went down to the Valley of Hinnom, to the side of
the Jebusite southward, and went down to En-rogel.
17 And it was drawn on the north, and went out at En-shemesh,
and went out to Geliloth, which is over against the ascent of Adummim; and it
went down to the Stone of Bohan the son of Reuben.
18 And it passed along to the side over against the Arabah
northward, and went down unto the Arabah.
19 And the border passed along to the side of Beth-hoglah
northward; and the goings out of the border were at the north bay of the Salt
Sea, at the south end of the Jordan; this was the south border.
20 And the Jordan was to be the border of it on the east
side. This was the inheritance of the children of Benjamin, by the borders
thereof round about, according to their families.
21 Now the cities of the tribe of the children of Benjamin
according to their families were Jericho, and Beth-hoglah, and Emek-keziz;
22 and Beth-arabah, and Zemaraim, and Beth-el;
23 and Avvim, and Parah, and Ophrah;
24 and Chephar-ammonah, and Ophni, and Geba; twelve cities
with their villages:
25 Gibeon, and Ramah, and Beeroth;
26 and Mizpeh, and Chephirah, and Mozah;
27 and Rekem, and Irpeel, and Taralah;
28 and Zela, Eleph, and the Jebusite--the same is Jerusalem,
Gibeath, and Kiriath; fourteen cities with their villages. This is the
inheritance of the children of Benjamin according to their families.
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