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Joshua 18 :: New American Standard Bible 2020 (NASB20)

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Rest of the Land Divided

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Then the whole congregation of the sons of Israel assembled at Shiloh, and set up the tent of meeting there; and the land was subdued before them.

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But there remained among the sons of Israel seven tribes who had not divided their inheritance.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:3 - So Joshua said to the sons of Israel, “How long will you [fn]put off entering to take possession of the land which the LORD, the God of your fathers, has given you?
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:4 - “Provide for yourselves three men from [fn]each tribe so that I may send them, and that they may arise and walk through the land and write a description of it according to their inheritance; then they shall [fn]return to me.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:5 - “And they shall divide it into seven portions; Judah shall stay in its territory on the south, and the house of Joseph shall stay in their territory on the north.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:6 - “And you shall write a description of the land in seven divisions, and bring the description here to me. Then I will cast lots for you here before the LORD our God.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:7 - “For the Levites have no portion among you, because the priesthood of the LORD is [fn]their inheritance. Gad, 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.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:8 -

Then the men arose and went, and Joshua commanded those who went to write a description of the land, saying, “Go and walk through the land and write a description of it, and return to me; then I will cast lots for you here before the LORD in Shiloh.”

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:9 - So the men went and passed through the land, and wrote a description of it by cities in seven divisions in a book; and they came to Joshua at the camp at Shiloh.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:10 - Joshua then cast lots for them in Shiloh before the LORD, and there Joshua divided the land for the sons of Israel according to their divisions.

The Territory of Benjamin

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Now the lot of the tribe of the sons of Benjamin came up according to their families, and the territory of their lot [fn]lay between the sons of Judah and the sons of Joseph.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:12 - Their 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 [fn]it ended at the wilderness of Beth-aven.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:13 - Then from there the border continued to Luz, 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 lower Beth-horon.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:14 - And the border changed direction from there and turned around on the west side southward, from the hill which lies opposite Beth-horon southward; and [fn]it ended at Kiriath-baal (that is, Kiriath-jearim), a city of the sons of Judah. This was the west side.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:15 - Then the south side was from the edge of Kiriath-jearim, and the border went westward and went to the fountain of the waters of Nephtoah.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:16 - Then the border went down to the edge of the hill which is [fn]in the Valley 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:17 - Then it turned northward and went to En-shemesh, and went to Geliloth, which is opposite the ascent of Adummim, and it went down to the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:18 - And it continued to the side in front of the Arabah northward, and went down to the Arabah.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:19 - Then the border continued to the side of Beth-hoglah northward; and the [fn]border ended at the north bay of the Salt Sea, at the south end of the Jordan. This was the southern border.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:20 - Moreover, the Jordan was its border on the east side. This was the inheritance of the sons of Benjamin according to their families, and according to its borders all around.
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Now the cities of the tribe of the sons of Benjamin according to their families were Jericho, Beth-hoglah, and Emek-keziz,

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:22 - Beth-arabah, Zemaraim, and Bethel,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:23 - Avvim, Parah, and Ophrah,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:24 - Chephar-ammoni, Ophni, and Geba; twelve cities with their villages.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:25 - Gibeon, Ramah, and Beeroth,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:26 - Mizpeh, Chephirah, and Mozah,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:27 - Rekem, Irpeel, and Taralah,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:28 - Zelah, Haeleph, the Jebusite city (that is, Jerusalem), Gibeah, Kiriath; fourteen cities with their villages. This is the inheritance of the sons of Benjamin according to their families.
NASB20 Footnotes
Or show yourselves lax in
Lit the
Lit come
Lit his
Lit went out
Lit the goings out of it were
Lit the goings out of it were
Lit on the face of
Lit goings out of the border were
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