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1 The whole congregation of Israelites assembled together at Shiloh, and set up the tabernacle of the congregation there.
The land was subdued before them.
2 There remained among the Israelites 7 tribes, which had not yet received their inheritance.
3 Joshua said to the Israelites:
How long are you slack to go to possess the land, which Anu God of your fathers has given you?
4 Give out from among you 3 men for each tribe.
I will send them, and they shall rise, and go through the land, and describe it according to the inheritance of them. They shall come again to me.
5 They shall divide it into 7 parts: Judah shall abide in their coast on the south, and the house of Joseph shall abide in their coasts on the north.
6 You shall therefore describe the land into 7 parts, and bring the description here to me, that I may cast lots for you here before Anu our God.
7 But the Levites have no part among you. For the priesthood of Anu is their inheritance. Gad and Reuben and half the tribe of Manasseh, have received their inheritance beyond Jordan on the east, which Moses gave them.
8 The men arose and went away. Joshua charged them that went to describe the land, saying:
9 The men went and passed through the land, and surveyed it by cities into 7 parts in a book, and came again to Joshua to the host at Shiloh.
10 Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before Anu: and there Joshua divided the land unto the Israelites according to their divisions.
11 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.
The Results of the Survey
12 Their border on the north side was from Jordan. The border went up to the side of Jericho on the north side, and went up through the mountains westward.
The goings out thereof were at the wilderness of Beth-aven.
13 The border went over from thence toward Luz, to the side of Luz, which is Bethel, southward; The border descended to Ataroth-adar, near the hill that [lieth] on the south side of the nether Beth-horon.
14 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 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 The border came down to the end of the mountain that lies 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, {18:18} And passed along toward the side over against Arabah northward, and went down unto Arabah:
19 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 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 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, {18:23} And Avim, and Parah, and Ophrah, {18:24} And Chephar- haammonai, and Ophni, and Gaba;
12 cities with their villages:
25 Gibeon, and Ramah, and Beeroth, {18:26} And Mizpeh, and Chephirah, and Mozah, {18:27} And Rekem, and Irpeel, and Taralah, {18:28} 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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