 1 All the congregation of the children of Israel gathered at Shiloh, and set up the tabernacle of the congregation there. And the land was subdued before them. 2 There remained among the children of Israel seven tribes that had not yet received their inheritance. 3 Joshua said to the children of Israel, How long will you fail to go in to possess the land that the Lord God of your fathers has given you? 4 Give from among you three men for each tribe and I will send them and they shall rise and go through the land and map it according to their inheritance and they shall come to me. 5 They shall divide it into seven parts. Judah shall stay within their border on the south and the house of Joseph shall stay within their borders on the north. 6 You shall map the land into seven parts and bring it here to me, so that I may cast lots here for you before the Lord our God. 7 But the Levites have no part among you. For the priesthood of the Lord is their inheritance. And Gad and Reuben and half the tribe of Manasseh have received their inheritance beyond Jordan on the east that Moses the servant of the Lord gave them. 8 The men arose and went away. And Joshua charged those who went to map the land saying, Go and walk through the land, and map it, and come again to me so that I may here cast lots for you before the Lord in Shiloh. 9 The men passed through the land and mapped it by cities into seven parts in a book. Then they came to Joshua, to the host at Shiloh. 10 Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before the Lord and divided the land to the children of Israel there, according to their divisions. 11 The lot of the tribe of the children of Benjamin came up by their families. And the border of their lot came forth between the children of Judah and the children of Joseph. 12 Their border on the north side was from Jordan. The border went to the side of Jericho on the north side and went through the mountains westward. And their boundary was at the wilderness of Bethaven. 13 The border went over from there toward Luz, to the side of Luz that is Bethel, southward. And the border went down to Atarothadar, near the hill that lies on the south side of the lower Bethhoron. 14 The border was drawn from there, and went around the corner of the sea southward, from the hill that is in front of Bethhoron southward. And its boundary was at Kirjathbaal. It is Kirjathjearim, a city of the children of Judah. This was the west quarter. 15 The south quarter was from the end of Kirjathjearim and the border went westward to the spring of the waters of Nephtoah. 16 The border went to the end of the mountain that lies before the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is the valley of the giants on the north and descended to the valley of Hinnom, to the side of the Jebusite on the south, and descended to Enrogel. 17 It was drawn from the north and went to Enshemesh and toward Geliloth that is across from the ascent of Adummim and down to the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben, 18 and passed along toward the side over against Arabah northward and down to the Arabah. 19 The border passed along to the side of Bethhoglah northward and the boundary was at the north tongue of the Salt Sea, at the south end of Jordan. This was the south border. 20 Jordan was the border of it on the east side. This was the inheritance of the children of Benjamin, according to its borders all around, according to their families. 21 The cities of the tribe of the children of Benjamin according to their families were Jericho, and Bethhoglah, and the valley of Keziz, 22 and Betharabah, and Zemaraim, and Bethel, 23 and Avvim, and Parah, and Ophrah, 24 and Chepharhaammonai, and Ophni, and Gaba. Twelve cities and their villages; 25 Gibeon, and Ramah, and Beeroth, 26 and Mizpeh, and Chephirah, and Mozah, 27 and Rekem, and Irpeel, and Taralah, 28 and Zelah, Eleph, and Jebusi that is Jerusalem; Gibeath, Kirjath. Fourteen cities and their villages. This is the inheritance of the children of Benjamin according to their families.
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