Joshua 18
1 And all the congregation of the
children of Israel were assembled at Selo, and there they pitched the
tabernacle of witness; and the land was subdued by them.
2 And the sons of Israel remained,
even those who had not
received their inheritance, seven tribes.
3 And Joshua said to the sons of
Israel, How long will ye be slack to inherit the land, which the Lord our God
has given you? 4 aGr. give.Appoint of yourselves three men of each tribe, and let them rise up and go
through the land, and let them describe it before me, as it will be proper to
divide it. 5 And they
bGr. went through.came to him: and he divided to them seven portions,
saying, Juda shall stand to them a border southward,
and the sons of Joseph shall stand to them northward.
6 And do ye divide the land into seven
parts, and bring the description hither to me, and I will
cGr. bring out.give you a lot before the Lord our God.
7 For the sons of Levi have no part
among you; for the priesthood of the Lord is his
portion; and Gad, and Ruben, and the half tribe of Manasse, have received
their inheritance beyond Jordan eastward, which Moses the servant of the Lord
gave to them.
8 And the men rose up and went; and
Joshua charged the men who went to
dOr, walk through.explore the land, saying, Go and explore the land, and come to me, and I will
bring you forth a lot here before the Lord in Selo.
9 And they went, and explored the
land: and they viewed it, and described it according to the cities, seven
parts in a book, and brought the book to Joshua.
10 And Joshua cast the lot for them
in Selo before the Lord.
11 And the lot of the tribe of
Benjamin came forth first according to their families: and the borders of
their lot came forth between the children of Juda and the children of Joseph.
12 And their borders were northward:
the borders shall go up from Jordan behind Jericho northward, and shall go up
to the mountain westward, and the issue of it shall be Bæthon of Mabdara.
13 And the borders will go forth
thence to Luz, behind Luz, from the south of it; this is Bæthel: and the
borders shall go down to Maatarob Orech, to the hill country, which is
southward of Bæthoron the lower.
14 And the borders shall pass through
and proceed to the part that looks toward the sea, on the south, from the
mountain in front of Bæthoron southward, and its termination shall be at
Cariath-Baal, this is Cariath-Jarin, a city of the children of Juda; this is
the part toward the west.
15 And the south side on the part of
Cariath-Baal; and the borders shall go across to Gasin, to the fountain of the
water of Naphtho. 16 And the borders
shall extend down on one side, this is in front of the forest of Sonnam, which
is on the side of Emec Raphain northward, and it shall come down to Gæenna
behind Jebusai southward: it shall come down to the fountain of Rogel.
17 And
the borders shall go across to the fountain of
Bæthsamys: 18 and shall proceed to
Galiloth, which is in front by the going up of Æthamin; and they shall come
down to the stone of Bæon of the sons of Ruben; and shall pass over behind
Bætharaba northward, and shall go down to the borders behind the sea
northward. 19 And the termination of
the borders shall be at the creek of the salt sea northward to the side of
Jordan southward: these are their southern borders.
20 And Jordan shall be their boundary
on the east: this is the inheritance of the children
of Benjamin, these are their borders round about
according to their families.
21 And the cities of the children of
Benjamin according to their families were Jericho,
and Bethegæo, and Amecasis, 22 and
Bæthabara, and Sara, and Besana,
23 and Æein, and Phara, and Ephratha,
24 and Carapha, and Cephira, and
Moni, and Gabaa, twelve cities and their villages:
25 Gabaon, and Rama, and Beerotha;
26 and Massema, and Miron, and Amoke;
27 and Phira, and Caphan, and Nacan,
and Selecan, and Thareela, 28 and
Jebus (this is Jerusalem); and Gabaoth, Jarim, thirteen cities, and their
villages; this is the inheritance of the sons of
Benjamin according to their families.