Joshua 18
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Joshua 18:6-19

6You shall describe the land in seven divisions, and bring the description here to me. 1I will cast lots for you here before the Lord our God. 7For 2the Levites have no portion among you, because the priesthood of the Lord is 3their inheritance. Gad and Reuben and the half-tribe of Manasseh also have received their inheritance eastward beyond the Jordan, which Moses the servant of the Lord gave them.”

8Then the men arose and went, and Joshua commanded those who went to describe the land, saying, “Go and walk through the land and describe it, and return to me; then I will cast lots for you here before the Lord in 4Shiloh.” 9So the men went and passed through the land, and described it by cities in seven divisions in a book; and they came to Joshua to the camp at Shiloh. 10And 5Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before the Lord, and there Joshua divided the land to the sons of Israel according to their divisions.

11Now the lot of the tribe of the sons of Benjamin came up according to their families, and the territory of their lot 6lay between the sons of Judah and the sons of Joseph. 127Their border on the north side was from the Jordan, then the border went up to the side of Jericho on the north, and went up through the hill country westward, and 8it ended at the wilderness of Beth-aven. 13From there the border continued to 9Luz, to the side of Luz (that is, Bethel) southward; and the border went down to Ataroth-addar, near the hill which lies on the south of 10lower Beth-horon. 14The border extended from there and turned round on the west side southward, from the hill which lies before Beth-horon southward; and 11it ended at Kiriath-baal (that is, Kiriath-jearim), a city of the sons of Judah. This was the west side. 15Then the 12south side was from the edge of Kiriath-jearim, and the border went westward and went to the fountain of the waters of Nephtoah. 16The border went down to the edge of the hill which is in the 13valley of Ben-hinnom, which is in the valley of Rephaim northward; and it went down to the valley of Hinnom, to the slope of the Jebusite southward, and went down to En-rogel. 17It extended northward and went to En-shemesh and went to Geliloth, which is opposite the ascent of Adummim, and it went down to the 14stone of Bohan the son of Reuben. 18It continued to the side in front of the Arabah northward and went down to the Arabah. 19The border continued to the side of Beth-hoglah northward; and the 15border ended at the north bay of the Salt Sea, at the south end of the Jordan. This was the south border.

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Notes

  1. 1. Joshua 18:6 Josh 14:2 ↩
  2. 2. Joshua 18:7 Num 18:7, 20; Josh 13:33 ↩
  3. 3. Joshua 18:7 Lit his ↩
  4. 4. Joshua 18:8 Josh 18:1 ↩
  5. 5. Joshua 18:10 Num 34:16-29; Josh 19:51 ↩
  6. 6. Joshua 18:11 Lit went out ↩
  7. 7. Joshua 18:12 Josh 16:1 ↩
  8. 8. Joshua 18:12 Lit the goings out of it were ↩
  9. 9. Joshua 18:13 Gen 28:19; Judg 1:23 ↩
  10. 10. Joshua 18:13 Josh 16:3 ↩
  11. 11. Joshua 18:14 Lit the goings out of it were ↩
  12. 12. Joshua 18:15 Josh 15:5-9 ↩
  13. 13. Joshua 18:16 2 Kin 23:10 ↩
  14. 14. Joshua 18:17 Josh 15:6 ↩
  15. 15. Joshua 18:19 Lit goings out of the border were ↩

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