Josh 18
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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.
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And there remained among the children of Israel seven tribes, which had not yet divided
their inheritance.
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And Joshua said to the children of Israel, How long are you slack to go in to possess
the land, which YHWH, the God of your fathers, has given you?
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Appoint for you three men of 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 to me.
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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.
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And you shall describe the land into seven portions, and bring [the description] here
to me; and I will cast lots for you here before YHWH our God.
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For the Levites have no portion among you; for the priesthood of YHWH 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 YHWH gave them.
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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 again to me; and I
will cast lots for you here before YHWH in Shiloh.
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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 to the camp at Shiloh.
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And Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before YHWH: and there Joshua divided the
land to the children of Israel according to their divisions.
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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.
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And their border on the north quarter 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.
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And the border passed along from there to Luz, to the side of Luz (the same is Beth-el),
southward; and the border went down to Ataroth-addar, by the mountain that lies on
the south of Beth-horon the nether.
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And the border extended [thence], and turned about on the west quarter southward,
from the mountain that lies 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 quarter.
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And the south quarter 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;
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and the border went down to the uttermost part of the mountain that lies 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;
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and it extended northward, 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;
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and it passed along to the side over against the Arabah northward, and went down to
the Arabah;
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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.
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And the Jordan was the border of it on the east quarter. This was the inheritance
of the children of Benjamin, by its borders round about, according to their
families.
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Now the cities of the tribe of the children of Benjamin according to their families
were Jericho, and Beth-hoglah, and Emek-keziz,
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and Beth-arabah, and Zemaraim, and Beth-el,
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and Avvim, and Parah, and Ophrah,
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and Chephar-ammoni, and Ophni, and Geba; twelve cities with their villages:
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Gibeon, and Ramah, and Beeroth,
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and Mizpeh, and Chephirah, and Mozah,
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and Rekem, and Irpeel, and Taralah,
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and Zelah, 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.