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1 And the whole congregation of the children of Israel assembled together at Shiloh, and set up the tabernacle
of the congregation 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 to possess the land, which the LORD God of your fathers hath given you?
4 Give out from among you three men for
each tribe: and I will send them, and they shall rise, and go through the land, and describe it according
to the inheritance of them; and they shall come
again
to me.
5 And they shall divide it into seven parts: Judah shall abide in their coast on the south, and the house
of Joseph shall abide in their coasts on the north.
6 Ye shall therefore describe the land
into seven parts, and bring
the description hither to me, that I may cast lots for you here before the LORD our God.
7 But the Levites have no part among you; for the priesthood of the LORD is their inheritance: and Gad,
and Reuben, and half the tribe of Manasseh, have received their inheritance beyond Jordan on the east,
which Moses the servant of the LORD gave them.
8 And the men arose, and went away: and Joshua charged them that went to describe the land, saying, Go
and walk through the land, and describe it, and come again to me, that I may here cast lots for you before
the LORD in Shiloh.
9 And the men went and passed through the land, and described it by cities into seven parts in a book,
and came
again to Joshua to the host at Shiloh.
10 And Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before the LORD: 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 coast
of their lot came forth between the children of Judah and the children of Joseph.
12 And their border on the north side was from Jordan; and the border went up to the side of Jericho on
the north side, and went up through the mountains westward; and the goings out thereof were at the wilderness
of Beth-aven.
13 And the border went over from thence toward Luz, to the side of Luz, which is Bethel, southward; and
the border descended to Ataroth-adar, near the hill that
lieth on the south side of the nether Beth-horon.
14 And the border was drawn
thence, and compassed the corner of the sea southward, from the hill that
lieth before Beth- horon southward; and the goings out thereof were at Kirjath-baal, which
is
Kirjath- jearim, a city of the children of Judah: this
was
the west quarter.
15 And the south quarter
was from the end of Kirjath-jearim, and the border went out on the west, and went out to the well of waters
of Nephtoah:
16 And the border came down to the end of the mountain that
lieth
before the valley of the son of Hinnom,
and which
is
in the valley of the giants on the north, and descended to the valley of Hinnom, to the side of Jebusi
on the south, and descended to En-rogel,
17 And was drawn from the north, and went forth to En-shemesh, and went forth toward Geliloth, which
is over against the going up of Adummim, and descended to the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben,
18 And passed along toward the side over against Arabah northward, and went down unto Arabah:
19 And the border passed along to the side of Beth-hoglah northward: and the outgoings of the border were
at the north bay of the salt sea at the south end of Jordan: this
was the south coast.
20 And Jordan was the border of it on the east side. This
was
the inheritance of the children of Benjamin, by the coasts 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 the valley of Keziz,
22 And Beth-arabah, and Zemaraim, and Bethel,
23 And Avim, and Parah, and Ophrah,
24 And Chephar-haammonai, and Ophni, and Gaba; 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 Zelah, Eleph, and Jebusi, which
is Jerusalem, Gibeath,
and Kirjath; fourteen cities with their villages. This
is
the inheritance of the children of Benjamin according to their families.