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Joshua 18 :: Legacy Standard Bible (LSB)

The Remaining Land Divided

Jos 18:1

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

Jos 18:2

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

Jos 18:3So Joshua said to the sons of Israel, “How long will you put off entering to take possession of the land which Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has given you?
Jos 18:4“Provide for yourselves three men from [fn]each tribe 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.
Jos 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.
Jos 18:6“So you shall write a description of the land in seven divisions and bring the description here to me. I will cast lots for you here before Yahweh our God.
Jos 18:7“For the Levites have no portion among you because the priesthood of Yahweh is [fn]their inheritance. Gad and Reuben and the half-tribe of Manasseh also have received their inheritance eastward beyond the Jordan, which Moses the servant of Yahweh gave them.”
Jos 18:8

Then the men arose and went, and Joshua commanded those who went to write the 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 Yahweh in Shiloh.”

Jos 18:9So 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 to the camp at Shiloh.
Jos 18:10And Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before Yahweh, and there Joshua divided the land to the sons of Israel according to their divisions.

Benjamin’s Inheritance

Jos 18:11

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.

Jos 18:12And 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.
Jos 18:13From there the border passed on 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.
Jos 18:14Then the border curved from there and turned round on the west side southward, from the hill which lies before 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.
Jos 18:15Then the south side was from the edge of Kiriath-jearim, and the border went out westward and went out to the fountain of the waters of Nephtoah.
Jos 18:16Then the border went down to the edge of the hill which is 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.
Jos 18:17Then it curved northward and went out to En-shemesh and went out to Geliloth, which is opposite the ascent of Adummim, and it went down to the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben.
Jos 18:18Then it continued to the side in front of the Arabah northward and went down to the Arabah.
Jos 18:19And the border passed on 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 south border.
Jos 18:20Moreover, 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.
Jos 18:21

Now the cities of the tribe of the sons of Benjamin according to their families were Jericho and Beth-hoglah and Emek-keziz,

Jos 18:22and Beth-arabah and Zemaraim and Bethel,
Jos 18:23and Avvim and Parah and Ophrah,
Jos 18:24and Chephar-ammoni and Ophni and Geba; twelve cities with their villages.
Jos 18:25Gibeon and Ramah and Beeroth,
Jos 18:26and Mizpeh and Chephirah and Mozah,
Jos 18:27and Rekem and Irpeel and Taralah,
Jos 18:28and Zelah, Haeleph and the Jebusite (that is, Jerusalem), Gibeah, Kiriath; fourteen cities with their villages. This is the inheritance of the sons of Benjamin according to their families.
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