Joshua 18:4-28 ▼

4 Appoint from among you? three men for the tribe, and I will send them, and they shall rise and go through the land and survey it according to their inheritance, and they shall come to me.

5 And they shall divide it into seven parts. Judah shall remain in their territory on the south, and the house of Joseph shall remain in their territory on the north.

6 And you? shall write down the land in seven portions and bring it to me here, that I may cast for you? lots here before the face of YHWH our God.

7 But no portion is for the Levites in your? midst, for the priesthood of YHWH is their inheritance. And Gad and Reuben and the half-tribe of Manasseh have received their inheritance beyond the Jordan on the east, which Moses the servant of YHWH gave them.”

8 And the men arose and went, and Joshua commanded those who went to write down the land, saying, “Go and walk up and down in the land, and describe it, and return to me, and here I will cast for you? lots before the face of YHWH in Shiloh.”

9 And the men went and passed through the land, and they wrote it down by the cities in seven parts in a book, and they came to Joshua at the camp in Shiloh.

10 And Joshua cast for them lots in Shiloh before the face of YHWH, and there Joshua divided the land to the sons of Israel according to their divisions.

11 And came up the lot of the tribe of the sons of Benjamin by their clans, and the territory of their lot came out between the sons of Judah and between the sons of Joseph.

12 And their border began on the north side at the Jordan, and the border went up to the shoulder of Jericho on the north, and it went up through the hill country westward, and its outgoing was at the Wilderness of Beth-aven.

13 And the border went over from there toward Luz, to the shoulder of Luz (that is, Bethel) southward, and the border descended to Ataroth-addar, near the hill that is on the south of Lower Beth-horon.

14 And the border extended and has gone round to the corner of the sea southward, from the hill that is at the front of Beth-horon southward, and it ended at Kiriath-baal (that is, Kiriath-jearim), a city of the sons of Judah. This was the west side.

15 And the south side is at the end of Kiriath-jearim, and the border extended on the west and went out to the spring at the Waters of Nephtoah.

16 And the border came down to the end of the mountain that is upon the face of the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, which is in the Valley of Rephaim on the north, and descended to the Valley of Hinnom, to the shoulder of the Jebusite on the south, and descended to En-rogel.

17 And it went around from the north, and went out to En-shemesh, and extended toward Geliloth, which is before the Ascent of Adummim, and descended to the stone of Bohan son of Reuben,

18 and it passed over to the slope of Beth-arabah northward, and went down to the Arabah.

19 And the border passed over to the shoulder of Beth-hoglah northward, and the outgoings of the border were at the north bay of the Salt Sea, at the south end of the Jordan. This is the south border.

20 And the Jordan bordered it on the east side. This was the inheritance of the sons of Benjamin, according to its boundaries all around, by their clans.

21 And these were and the cities of the tribe of the sons of Benjamin by their clans: Jericho, and Beth-hoglah, and Emek-keziz,

22 and Beth-arabah, and Zemaraim, and Bethel,

23 and Avim, and Parah, and Ophrah,

24 and Chephar-ammoni, and Ophni, and Geba—twelve cities, and their villages.

25 Gibeon, and Ramah, and Beeroth,

26 and Mizpah, and Chephirah, and Mozah,

27 and Rekem, and Irpeel, and Taralah,

28 Zelah, and Haeleph, and Jebus (that is, Jerusalem), Gibeath, and Kiriath-jearim—fourteen cities, and their villages. This was the inheritance of the sons of Benjamin by their clans.