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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.
02 And there remained among the children of
Israel seven tribes, which had not yet received
their inheritance.
03 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?
04 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.
05 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.
06 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.
07 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.
08 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.
09 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 Bethaven.
13 And the border went over from thence toward
Luz, to the side of Luz, which is Bethel,
southward; and the border descended to
Atarothadar, near the hill that lieth on the
south side of the nether Bethhoron.
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14 And the border was drawn thence, and compassed
the corner of the sea southward, from the hill
that lieth before Bethhoron southward; and the
goings out thereof were at Kirjathbaal, which is
Kirjathjearim, a city of the children of Judah:
this was the west quarter.
15 And the south quarter was from the end of
Kirjathjearim, 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 Enrogel,
17 And was drawn from the north, and went forth
to Enshemesh, 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
Bethhoglah 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 Bethhoglah, and the valley of Keziz,
22 And Betharabah, and Zemaraim, and Bethel,
23 And Avim, and Pharah, and Ophrah,
24 And Chepharhaammonai, 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.
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