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The Remaining Land Divided

¹ Then the whole congregation of the sons of Israel assembled themselves at ^(C1)Shiloh and set up the tent of meeting there; and the land was subdued before them.

² And there remained among the sons of Israel seven tribes who had not divided their inheritance.³ So Joshua said to the sons of Israel, "^(C1)How long will you put off entering to take possession of the land which Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has given you?⁴ "Provide for yourselves three men from ^(F1)each tribe that I may send them, and that they may arise and walk through the land and write a description of it according to their inheritance; then they shall ^(F2)return to me.⁵ "And they shall divide it into seven portions; ^(C1)Judah shall stay in its territory on the south, and the house of Joseph shall stay in their territory on the north.⁶ "So you shall write a description of the land in seven divisions and bring the description here to me. ^(C1)I will cast lots for you here before Yahweh our God.⁷ "For ^(C1)the Levites have no portion among you because the priesthood of Yahweh is ^(F1)their inheritance. Gad and Reuben and the half-tribe of Manasseh also have received their inheritance eastward beyond the Jordan, which Moses the servant of Yahweh gave them."

⁸ Then the men arose and went, and Joshua commanded those who went to write the description of the land, saying, "Go and walk through the land and write a description of it, and return to me; then I will cast lots for you here before Yahweh in ^(C1)Shiloh."⁹ So the men went and passed through the land and wrote a description of it by cities in seven divisions in a book; and they came to Joshua to the camp at Shiloh.¹⁰ And ^(C1)Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before Yahweh, and there Joshua divided the land to the sons of Israel according to their divisions.

Benjamin's Inheritance

¹¹ Now the lot of the tribe of the sons of Benjamin came up according to their families, and the territory of their lot ^(F1)lay between the sons of Judah and the sons of Joseph.^12 (C1)And their border on the north side was from the Jordan; then the border went up to the side of Jericho on the north and went up through the hill country westward, and ^(F1)it ended at the wilderness of Beth-aven.¹³ From there the border passed on to ^(C1)Luz, to the side of Luz (that is, Bethel) southward; and the border went down to Ataroth-addar, near the hill which lies on the south of ^(C2)lower Beth-horon.¹⁴ Then the border curved from there and turned round on the west side southward, from the hill which lies before Beth-horon southward; and ^(F1)it ended at Kiriath-baal (that is, Kiriath-jearim), a city of the sons of Judah. This was the west side.¹⁵ Then the ^(C1)south side was from the edge of Kiriath-jearim, and the border went out westward and went out to the fountain of the waters of Nephtoah.¹⁶ Then the border went down to the edge of the hill which is in the ^(C1)valley of Ben-hinnom, which is in the valley of Rephaim northward; and it went down to the valley of Hinnom, to the slope of the Jebusite southward, and went down to En-rogel.¹⁷ Then it curved northward and went out to En-shemesh and went out to Geliloth, which is opposite the ascent of Adummim, and it went down to the ^(C1)stone of Bohan the son of Reuben.¹⁸ Then it continued to the side in front of the Arabah northward and went down to the Arabah.¹⁹ And the border passed on to the side of Beth-hoglah northward; and the ^(F1)border ended at the north bay of the Salt Sea, at the south end of the Jordan. This was the south border.²⁰ Moreover, the Jordan was its border on the east side. This was the inheritance of the sons of Benjamin, according to their families and according to its borders all around.

²¹ Now the cities of the tribe of the sons of Benjamin according to their families were Jericho and Beth-hoglah and Emek-keziz,²² and Beth-arabah and Zemaraim and Bethel,²³ and Avvim and Parah and Ophrah,²⁴ and Chephar-ammoni and Ophni and ^(C1)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 ^(C1)Zelah, Haeleph and the Jebusite (that is, Jerusalem), Gibeah, Kiriath; fourteen cities with their villages. This is the inheritance of the ^(C2)sons of Benjamin according to their families.