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1 Then Joshua called the Reuben­ites, and the Gadites, and the
half tribe of Manasseh,

2 And said unto them, Ye have kept all that Moses the ser­vant of
the LORD com­manded you, and have obeyed my voice in all that I
com­manded you:

3 Ye have not left your brethren these many days unto this day,
but have kept the charge of the com­mand­ment of the LORD your
God.

4 And now the LORD your God hath given rest unto your brethren,
as he prom­ised them: there­fore now return ye, and get you unto
your tents, and unto the land of your pos­ses­sion, which Moses
the ser­vant of the LORD gave you on the other side Jordan.

5 But take dili­gent heed to do the com­mand­ment and the law,
which Moses the ser­vant of the LORD charged you, to love the
LORD your God, and to walk in all his ways, and to keep his
com­mand­ments, and to cleave unto him, and to serve him with
all your heart and with all your soul.

6 So Joshua blessed them, and sent them away: and they went unto
their tents.

7 Now to the one half of the tribe of Man­as­seh Moses had given
pos­ses­sion in Bashan: but unto the other half thereof gave
Joshua among their brethren on this side Jordan west­ward. And
when Joshua sent them away also unto their tents, then he
blessed them,

8 And he spake unto them, say­ing, Return with much riches unto
your tents, and with very much cattle, with sil­ver, and with
gold, and with brass, and with iron, and with very much
raiment: divide the spoil of your enemies with your brethren.

9 And the chil­dren of Reuben and the chil­dren of Gad and the
half tribe of Man­as­seh returned, and depar­ted from the
chil­dren of Israel out of Shiloh, which is in the land of
Canaan, to go unto the coun­try of Gilead, to the land of their
pos­ses­sion, whereof they were pos­sessed, accord­ing to the word
of the LORD by the hand of Moses.

10 And when they came unto the bor­ders of Jordan, that are in the
land of Canaan, the chil­dren of Reuben and the chil­dren of Gad
and the half tribe of Man­as­seh built there an altar by Jordan,
a great altar to see to.

11 And the chil­dren of Israel heard say, Behold, the chil­dren of
Reuben and the chil­dren of Gad and the half tribe of Man­as­seh
have built an altar over against the land of Canaan, in the
bor­ders of Jordan, at the pas­sage of the chil­dren of Israel.

12 And when the chil­dren of Israel heard of it, the whole
con­greg­a­tion of the chil­dren of Israel gathered them­selves
together at Shiloh, to go up to war against them.

13 And the chil­dren of Israel sent unto the chil­dren of Reuben,
and to the chil­dren of Gad, and to the half tribe of Man­as­seh,
into the land of Gilead, Phine­has the son of Eleazar the
priest,

14 And with him ten princes, of each chief house a prince
through­out all the tribes of Israel; and each one was an head
of the house of their fath­ers among the thou­sands of Israel.

15 And they came unto the chil­dren of Reuben, and to the chil­dren
of Gad, and to the half tribe of Man­as­seh, unto the land of
Gilead, and they spake with them, saying,

16 Thus saith the whole con­greg­a­tion of the LORD, What tres­pass
is this that ye have com­mit­ted against the God of Israel, to
turn away this day from fol­low­ing the LORD, in that ye have
buil­ded you an altar, that ye might rebel this day against the
LORD?

17 Is the iniquity of Peor too little for us, from which we are
not cleansed until this day, although there was a plague in
the con­greg­a­tion of the LORD,

18 But that ye must turn away this day from fol­low­ing the LORD?
and it will be, see­ing ye rebel to day against the LORD, that
to mor­row he will be wroth with the whole con­greg­a­tion of
Israel.

19 Not­with­stand­ing, if the land of your pos­ses­sion be unclean,
then pass ye over unto the land of the pos­ses­sion of the LORD,
wherein the LORD’s tab­er­nacle dwel­l­eth, and take pos­ses­sion
among us: but rebel not against the LORD, nor rebel against
us, in build­ing you an altar beside the altar of the LORD our
God.

20 Did not Achan the son of Zerah com­mit a tres­pass in the
accursed thing, and wrath fell on all the con­greg­a­tion of
Israel? and that man per­ished not alone in his iniquity.

21 Then the chil­dren of Reuben and the chil­dren of Gad and the
half tribe of Man­as­seh answered, and said unto the heads of
the thou­sands of Israel,

22 The LORD God of gods, the LORD God of gods, he knoweth, and
Israel he shall know; if it be in rebel­lion, or if in
trans­gres­sion against the LORD, (save us not this day,)

23 That we have built us an altar to turn from fol­low­ing the
LORD, or if to offer thereon burnt offer­ing or meat offer­ing,
or if to offer peace offer­ings thereon, let the LORD him­self
require it;

24 And if we have not rather done it for fear of this thing,
say­ing, In time to come your chil­dren might speak unto our
chil­dren, say­ing, What have ye to do with the LORD God of
Israel?

25 For the LORD hath made Jordan a bor­der between us and you, ye
chil­dren of Reuben and chil­dren of Gad; ye have no part in the
LORD: so shall your chil­dren make our chil­dren cease from
fear­ing the LORD.

26 There­fore we said, Let us now pre­pare to build us an altar,
not for burnt offer­ing, nor for sacrifice:

27 But that it may be a wit­ness between us, and you, and our
gen­er­a­tions after us, that we might do the ser­vice of the LORD
before him with our burnt offer­ings, and with our sac­ri­fices,
and with our peace offer­ings; that your chil­dren may not say
to our chil­dren in time to come, Ye have no part in the LORD.

28 There­fore said we, that it shall be, when they should so say
to us or to our gen­er­a­tions in time to come, that we may say
again, Behold the pat­tern of the altar of the LORD, which our
fath­ers made, not for burnt offer­ings, nor for sac­ri­fices; but
it is a wit­ness between us and you.

29 God for­bid that we should rebel against the LORD, and turn
this day from fol­low­ing the LORD, to build an altar for burnt
offer­ings, for meat offer­ings, or for sac­ri­fices, beside the
altar of the LORD our God that is before his tabernacle.

30 And when Phine­has the priest, and the princes of the
con­greg­a­tion and heads of the thou­sands of Israel which were
with him, heard the words that the chil­dren of Reuben and the
chil­dren of Gad and the chil­dren of Man­as­seh spake, it pleased
them.

31 And Phine­has the son of Eleazar the priest said unto the
chil­dren of Reuben, and to the chil­dren of Gad, and to the
chil­dren of Man­as­seh, This day we per­ceive that the LORD is
among us, because ye have not com­mit­ted this tres­pass against
the LORD: now ye have delivered the chil­dren of Israel out of
the hand of the LORD.

32 And Phine­has the son of Eleazar the priest, and the princes,
returned from the chil­dren of Reuben, and from the chil­dren of
Gad, out of the land of Gilead, unto the land of Canaan, to
the chil­dren of Israel, and brought them word again.

33 And the thing pleased the chil­dren of Israel; and the chil­dren
of Israel blessed God, and did not intend to go up against
them in battle, to des­troy the land wherein the chil­dren of
Reuben and Gad dwelt.

34 And the chil­dren of Reuben and the chil­dren of Gad called the
altar Ed: for it shall be a wit­ness between us that the LORD
is God.

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1 Then came near the heads of the fath­ers of the Levites unto
Eleazar the priest, and unto Joshua the son of Nun, and unto
the heads of the fath­ers of the tribes of the chil­dren of
Israel;

2 And they spake unto them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan,
say­ing, The LORD com­manded by the hand of Moses to give us
cit­ies to dwell in, with the sub­urbs thereof for our cattle.

3 And the chil­dren of Israel gave unto the Levites out of their
inher­it­ance, at the com­mand­ment of the LORD, these cit­ies and
their suburbs.

4 And the lot came out for the fam­il­ies of the Kohath­ites: and
the chil­dren of Aaron the priest, which were of the Levites,
had by lot out of the tribe of Judah, and out of the tribe of
Simeon, and out of the tribe of Ben­jamin, thir­teen cities.

5 And the rest of the chil­dren of Kohath had by lot out of the
fam­il­ies of the tribe of Eph­raim, and out of the tribe of Dan,
and out of the half tribe of Man­as­seh, ten cities.

6 And the chil­dren of Ger­s­hon had by lot out of the fam­il­ies of
the tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Asher, and out
of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the half tribe of
Man­as­seh in Bashan, thir­teen cities.

7 The chil­dren of Mer­ari by their fam­il­ies had out of the tribe
of Reuben, and out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe
of Zebu­lun, twelve cities.

8 And the chil­dren of Israel gave by lot unto the Levites these
cit­ies with their sub­urbs, as the LORD com­manded by the hand
of Moses.

9 And they gave out of the tribe of the chil­dren of Judah, and
out of the tribe of the chil­dren of Simeon, these cit­ies which
are here men­tioned by name.

10 Which the chil­dren of Aaron, being of the fam­il­ies of the
Kohath­ites, who were of the chil­dren of Levi, had: for theirs
was the first lot.

11 And they gave them the city of Arba the father of Anak, which
city is Hebron, in the hill coun­try of Judah, with the sub­urbs
thereof round about it.

12 But the fields of the city, and the vil­lages thereof, gave
they to Caleb the son of Jephun­neh for his possession.

13 Thus they gave to the chil­dren of Aaron the priest Hebron with
her sub­urbs, to be a city of refuge for the slayer; and Lib­nah
with her suburbs,

14 And Jat­tir with her sub­urbs, and Eshte­moa with her suburbs,

15 And Holon with her sub­urbs, and Debir with her suburbs,

16 And Ain with her sub­urbs, and Jut­tah with her sub­urbs, and
Beth­shemesh with her sub­urbs; nine cit­ies out of those two
tribes.

17 And out of the tribe of Ben­jamin, Gibeon with her sub­urbs,
Geba with her suburbs,

18 Ana­thoth with her sub­urbs, and Almon with her sub­urbs; four
cities.

19 All the cit­ies of the chil­dren of Aaron, the priests, were
thir­teen cit­ies with their suburbs.

20 And the fam­il­ies of the chil­dren of Kohath, the Levites which
remained of the chil­dren of Kohath, even they had the cit­ies
of their lot out of the tribe of Ephraim.

21 For they gave them She­chem with her sub­urbs in mount Eph­raim,
to be a city of refuge for the slayer; and Gezer with her
suburbs,

22 And Kibzaim with her sub­urbs, and Beth­horon with her sub­urbs;
four cities.

23 And out of the tribe of Dan, Eltekeh with her sub­urbs,
Gib­bethon with her suburbs,

24 Aija­lon with her sub­urbs, Gath­rimmon with her sub­urbs; four
cities.

25 And out of the half tribe of Man­as­seh, Tanach with her
sub­urbs, and Gath­rimmon with her sub­urbs; two cities.

26 All the cit­ies were ten with their sub­urbs for the fam­il­ies of
the chil­dren of Kohath that remained.

27 And unto the chil­dren of Ger­s­hon, of the fam­il­ies of the
Levites, out of the other half tribe of Man­as­seh they gave
Golan in Bashan with her sub­urbs, to be a city of refuge for
the slayer; and Beeshterah with her sub­urbs; two cities.

28 And out of the tribe of Issachar, Kishon with her sub­urbs,
Dab­areh with her suburbs,

29 Jar­muth with her sub­urbs, Engan­nim with her sub­urbs; four
cities.

30 And out of the tribe of Asher, Mis­hal with her sub­urbs, Abdon
with her suburbs,

31 Helk­ath with her sub­urbs, and Rehob with her sub­urbs; four
cities.

32 And out of the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee with her
sub­urbs, to be a city of refuge for the slayer; and Ham­mothdor
with her sub­urbs, and Kartan with her sub­urbs; three cities.

33 All the cit­ies of the Ger­s­hon­ites accord­ing to their fam­il­ies
were thir­teen cit­ies with their suburbs.

34 And unto the fam­il­ies of the chil­dren of Mer­ari, the rest of
the Levites, out of the tribe of Zebu­lun, Jokneam with her
sub­urbs, and Kar­tah with her suburbs,

35 Dim­nah with her sub­urbs, Nahalal with her sub­urbs; four
cities.

36 And out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer with her sub­urbs, and
Jahazah with her suburbs,

37 Kedemoth with her sub­urbs, and Meph­aath with her sub­urbs; four
cities.

38 And out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead with her
sub­urbs, to be a city of refuge for the slayer; and Mahanaim
with her suburbs,

39 Hesh­bon with her sub­urbs, Jazer with her sub­urbs; four cit­ies
in all.

40 So all the cit­ies for the chil­dren of Mer­ari by their
fam­il­ies, which were remain­ing of the fam­il­ies of the Levites,
were by their lot twelve cities.

41 All the cit­ies of the Levites within the pos­ses­sion of the
chil­dren of Israel were forty and eight cit­ies with their
suburbs.

42 These cit­ies were every one with their sub­urbs round about
them: thus were all these cities.

43 And the LORD gave unto Israel all the land which he sware to
give unto their fath­ers; and they pos­sessed it, and dwelt
therein.

44 And the LORD gave them rest round about, accord­ing to all that
he sware unto their fath­ers: and there stood not a man of all
their enemies before them; the LORD delivered all their
enemies into their hand.

45 There failed not ought of any good thing which the LORD had
spoken unto the house of Israel; all came to pass.

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1 The LORD also spake unto Joshua, saying,

2 Speak to the chil­dren of Israel, say­ing, Appoint out for you
cit­ies of refuge, whereof I spake unto you by the hand of
Moses:

3 That the slayer that kil­leth any per­son unawares and
unwit­tingly may flee thither: and they shall be your refuge
from the avenger of blood.

4 And when he that doth flee unto one of those cit­ies shall
stand at the enter­ing of the gate of the city, and shall
declare his cause in the ears of the eld­ers of that city, they
shall take him into the city unto them, and give him a place,
that he may dwell among them.

5 And if the avenger of blood pur­sue after him, then they shall
not deliver the slayer up into his hand; because he smote his
neigh­bour unwit­tingly, and hated him not beforetime.

6 And he shall dwell in that city, until he stand before the
con­greg­a­tion for judg­ment, and until the death of the high
priest that shall be in those days: then shall the slayer
return, and come unto his own city, and unto his own house,
unto the city from whence he fled.

7 And they appoin­ted Kedesh in Galilee in mount Naphtali, and
She­chem in mount Eph­raim, and Kir­jath­arba, which is Hebron, in
the moun­tain of Judah.

8 And on the other side Jordan by Jericho east­ward, they
assigned Bezer in the wil­der­ness upon the plain out of the
tribe of Reuben, and Ramoth in Gilead out of the tribe of Gad,
and Golan in Bashan out of the tribe of Manasseh.

9 These were the cit­ies appoin­ted for all the chil­dren of
Israel, and for the stranger that sojour­neth among them, that
who­so­ever kil­leth any per­son at unawares might flee thither,
and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, until he
stood before the congregation.

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1 And the second lot came forth to Simeon, even for the tribe of
the chil­dren of Simeon accord­ing to their fam­il­ies: and their
inher­it­ance was within the inher­it­ance of the chil­dren of
Judah.

2 And they had in their inher­it­ance Beer­sheba, and Sheba, and
Moladah,

3 And Haz­arshual, and Balah, and Azem,

4 And Eltolad, and Bethul, and Hormah,

5 And Zik­lag, and Beth­mar­caboth, and Hazarsusah,

6 And Beth­le­baoth, and Sharuhen; thir­teen cit­ies and their
villages:

7 Ain, Rem­mon, and Ether, and Ashan; four cit­ies and their
villages:

8 And all the vil­lages that were round about these cit­ies to
Baalath­beer, Ramath of the south. This is the inher­it­ance of
the tribe of the chil­dren of Simeon accord­ing to their
families.

9 Out of the por­tion of the chil­dren of Judah was the
inher­it­ance of the chil­dren of Simeon: for the part of the
chil­dren of Judah was too much for them: there­fore the
chil­dren of Simeon had their inher­it­ance within the
inher­it­ance of them.

10 And the third lot came up for the chil­dren of Zebu­lun
accord­ing to their fam­il­ies: and the bor­der of their
inher­it­ance was unto Sarid:

11 And their bor­der went up toward the sea, and Mara­lah, and
reached to Dab­bash­eth, and reached to the river that is before
Jokneam;

12 And turned from Sarid east­ward toward the sun­rising unto the
bor­der of Chis­lothtabor, and then goeth out to Daberath, and
goeth up to Japhia,

13 And from thence pas­seth on along on the east to Git­tah­hep­her,
to Ittahkazin, and goeth out to Rem­mon­methoar to Neah;

14 And the bor­der com­pas­seth it on the north side to Han­na­thon:
and the out­go­ings thereof are in the val­ley of Jiphthahel:

15 And Kat­tath, and Nahal­lal, and Shim­ron, and Ida­lah, and
Beth­le­hem: twelve cit­ies with their villages.

16 This is the inher­it­ance of the chil­dren of Zebu­lun accord­ing
to their fam­il­ies, these cit­ies with their villages.

17 And the fourth lot came out to Issachar, for the chil­dren of
Issachar accord­ing to their families.

18 And their bor­der was toward Jezreel, and Chesul­loth, and
Shunem,

19 And Haphraim, and Shi­hon, and Anaharath,

20 And Rab­bith, and Kish­ion, and Abez,

21 And Remeth, and Engan­nim, and Enhad­dah, and Bethpazzez;

22 And the coast reacheth to Tabor, and Shahazi­mah, and
Beth­shemesh; and the out­go­ings of their bor­der were at Jordan:
six­teen cit­ies with their villages.

23 This is the inher­it­ance of the tribe of the chil­dren of
Issachar accord­ing to their fam­il­ies, the cit­ies and their
villages.

24 And the fifth lot came out for the tribe of the chil­dren of
Asher accord­ing to their families.

25 And their bor­der was Helk­ath, and Hali, and Beten, and
Achshaph,

26 And Alammelech, and Amad, and Misheal; and reacheth to Car­mel
west­ward, and to Shihorlibnath;

27 And turneth toward the sun­rising to Beth­d­agon, and reacheth to
Zebu­lun, and to the val­ley of Jiph­thahel toward the north side
of Beth­emek, and Neiel, and goeth out to Cabul on the left
hand,

28 And Hebron, and Rehob, and Ham­mon, and Kanah, even unto great
Zidon;

29 And then the coast turneth to Ramah, and to the strong city
Tyre; and the coast turneth to Hosah; and the out­go­ings
thereof are at the sea from the coast to Achzib:

30 Ummah also, and Aphek, and Rehob: twenty and two cit­ies with
their villages.

31 This is the inher­it­ance of the tribe of the chil­dren of Asher
accord­ing to their fam­il­ies, these cit­ies with their villages.

32 The sixth lot came out to the chil­dren of Naphtali, even for
the chil­dren of Naphtali accord­ing to their families.

33 And their coast was from Heleph, from Allon to Zaanan­nim, and
Adami, Nekeb, and Jab­neel, unto Lakum; and the out­go­ings
thereof were at Jordan:

34 And then the coast turneth west­ward to Aznothtabor, and goeth
out from thence to Hukkok, and reacheth to Zebu­lun on the
south side, and reacheth to Asher on the west side, and to
Judah upon Jordan toward the sunrising.

35 And the fenced cit­ies are Zid­dim, Zer, and Ham­math, Rakkath,
and Chinnereth,

36 And Adamah, and Ramah, and Hazor,

37 And Kedesh, and Edrei, and Enhazor,

38 And Iron, and Mig­dalel, Horem, and Beth­anath, and Beth­shemesh;
nine­teen cit­ies with their villages.

39 This is the inher­it­ance of the tribe of the chil­dren of
Naphtali accord­ing to their fam­il­ies, the cit­ies and their
villages.

40 And the sev­enth lot came out for the tribe of the chil­dren of
Dan accord­ing to their families.

41 And the coast of their inher­it­ance was Zorah, and Eshtaol, and
Irshemesh,

42 And Shaalab­bin, and Aja­lon, and Jethlah,

43 And Elon, and Thim­nathah, and Ekron,

44 And Eltekeh, and Gib­bethon, and Baalath,

45 And Jehud, and Bene­berak, and Gathrimmon,

46 And Mejarkon, and Rakkon, with the bor­der before Japho.

47 And the coast of the chil­dren of Dan went out too little for
them: there­fore the chil­dren of Dan went up to fight against
Leshem, and took it, and smote it with the edge of the sword,
and pos­sessed it, and dwelt therein, and called Leshem, Dan,
after the name of Dan their father.

48 This is the inher­it­ance of the tribe of the chil­dren of Dan
accord­ing to their fam­il­ies, these cit­ies with their villages.

49 When they had made an end of divid­ing the land for inher­it­ance
by their coasts, the chil­dren of Israel gave an inher­it­ance to
Joshua the son of Nun among them:

50 Accord­ing to the word of the LORD they gave him the city which
he asked, even Tim­nath­serah in mount Eph­raim: and he built the
city, and dwelt therein.

51 These are the inher­it­ances, which Eleazar the priest, and
Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fath­ers of the
tribes of the chil­dren of Israel, divided for an inher­it­ance
by lot in Shiloh before the LORD, at the door of the
tab­er­nacle of the con­greg­a­tion. So they made an end of
divid­ing the country.

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1 And the whole con­greg­a­tion of the chil­dren of Israel assembled
together at Shiloh, and set up the tab­er­nacle of the
con­greg­a­tion there. And the land was sub­dued before them.

2 And there remained among the chil­dren of Israel seven tribes,
which had not yet received their inheritance.

3 And Joshua said unto the chil­dren of Israel, How long are ye
slack to go to pos­sess the land, which the LORD God of your
fath­ers hath given you?

4 Give out from among you three men for each tribe: and I will
send them, and they shall rise, and go through the land, and
describe it accord­ing to the inher­it­ance of them; and they
shall come again to me.

5 And they shall divide it into seven parts: Judah shall abide
in their coast on the south, and the house of Joseph shall
abide in their coasts on the north.

6 Ye shall there­fore describe the land into seven parts, and
bring the descrip­tion hither to me, that I may cast lots for
you here 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, which Moses the ser­vant of the LORD gave
them.

8 And the men arose, and went away: and Joshua charged them that
went to describe the land, say­ing, Go and walk through the
land, and describe it, and come again to me, that I may here
cast lots for you before the LORD in Shiloh.

9 And the men went and passed through the land, and described it
by cit­ies into seven parts in a book, and came again to Joshua
to the host at Shiloh.

10 And Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before the LORD: and
there Joshua divided the land unto the chil­dren of Israel
accord­ing to their divisions.

11 And the lot of the tribe of the chil­dren of Ben­jamin came up
accord­ing to their fam­il­ies: and the coast of their lot came
forth between the chil­dren of Judah and the chil­dren of
Joseph.

12 And their bor­der on the north side was from Jordan; and the
bor­der went up to the side of Jericho on the north side, and
went up through the moun­tains west­ward; and the goings out
thereof were at the wil­der­ness of Bethaven.

13 And the bor­der went over from thence toward Luz, to the side
of Luz, which is Bethel, south­ward; and the bor­der des­cen­ded
to Atarothadar, near the hill that lieth on the south side of
the nether Bethhoron.

14 And the bor­der was drawn thence, and com­passed the corner of
the sea south­ward, from the hill that lieth before Beth­horon
south­ward; and the goings out thereof were at Kir­jath­baal,
which is Kir­jathjearim, a city of the chil­dren of Judah: this
was the west quarter.

15 And the south quarter was from the end of Kir­jathjearim, and
the bor­der went out on the west, and went out to the well of
waters of Nephtoah:

16 And the bor­der came down to the end of the moun­tain that lieth
before the val­ley of the son of Hin­nom, and which is in the
val­ley of the giants on the north, and des­cen­ded to the val­ley
of Hin­nom, to the side of Jebusi on the south, and des­cen­ded
to Enrogel,

17 And was drawn from the north, and went forth to Enshemesh, and
went forth toward Geliloth, which is over against the going up
of Adum­mim, and des­cen­ded to the stone of Bohan the son of
Reuben,

18 And passed along toward the side over against Ara­bah
north­ward, and went down unto Arabah:

19 And the bor­der passed along to the side of Beth­hog­lah
north­ward: and the out­go­ings of the bor­der were at the north
bay of the salt sea at the south end of Jordan: this was the
south coast.

20 And Jordan was the bor­der of it on the east side. This was the
inher­it­ance of the chil­dren of Ben­jamin, by the coasts thereof
round about, accord­ing to their families.

21 Now 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 Avim, and Pharah, and Ophrah,

24 And Chep­h­ar­haam­monai, and Ophni, and Gaba; twelve cit­ies with
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, which is Jer­u­s­alem, Gibeath, and
Kir­jath; four­teen cit­ies with their vil­lages. This is the
inher­it­ance of the chil­dren of Ben­jamin accord­ing to their
families.

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1 There was also a lot for the tribe of Man­as­seh; for he was the
first­born of Joseph; to wit, for Machir the first­born of
Man­as­seh, the father of Gilead: because he was a man of war,
there­fore he had Gilead and Bashan.

2 There was also a lot for the rest of the chil­dren of Man­as­seh
by their fam­il­ies; for the chil­dren of Abiezer, and for the
chil­dren of Helek, and for the chil­dren of Asriel, and for the
chil­dren of She­chem, and for the chil­dren of Hep­her, and for
the chil­dren of Shemida: these were the male chil­dren of
Man­as­seh the son of Joseph by their families.

3 But Zelophehad, the son of Hep­her, the son of Gilead, the son
of Machir, the son of Man­as­seh, had no sons, but daugh­ters:
and these are the names of his daugh­ters, Mah­lah, and Noah,
Hog­lah, Mil­cah, and Tirzah.

4 And they came near before Eleazar the priest, and before
Joshua the son of Nun, and before the princes, say­ing, The
LORD com­manded Moses to give us an inher­it­ance among our
brethren. There­fore accord­ing to the com­mand­ment of the LORD
he gave them an inher­it­ance among the brethren of their
father.

5 And there fell ten por­tions to Man­as­seh, beside the land of
Gilead and Bashan, which were on the other side Jordan;

6 Because the daugh­ters of Man­as­seh had an inher­it­ance among his
sons: and the rest of Manasseh’s sons had the land of Gilead.

7 And the coast of Man­as­seh was from Asher to Mich­methah, that
lieth before She­chem; and the bor­der went along on the right
hand unto the inhab­it­ants of Entappuah.

8 Now Man­as­seh had the land of Tap­puah: but Tap­puah on the
bor­der of Man­as­seh belonged to the chil­dren of Ephraim;

9 And the coast des­cen­ded unto the river Kanah, south­ward of the
river: these cit­ies of Eph­raim are among the cit­ies of
Man­as­seh: the coast of Man­as­seh also was on the north side of
the river, and the out­go­ings of it were at the sea:

10 South­ward it was Ephraim’s, and north­ward it was Manasseh’s,
and the sea is his bor­der; and they met together in Asher on
the north, and in Issachar on the east.

11 And Man­as­seh had in Issachar and in Asher Beth­shean and her
towns, and Ibleam and her towns, and the inhab­it­ants of Dor
and her towns, and the inhab­it­ants of Endor and her towns, and
the inhab­it­ants of Taanach and her towns, and the inhab­it­ants
of Megiddo and her towns, even three countries.

12 Yet the chil­dren of Man­as­seh could not drive out the
inhab­it­ants of those cit­ies; but the Canaan­ites would dwell in
that land.

13 Yet it came to pass, when the chil­dren of Israel were waxen
strong, that they put the Canaan­ites to trib­ute, but did not
utterly drive them out.

14 And the chil­dren of Joseph spake unto Joshua, say­ing, Why hast
thou given me but one lot and one por­tion to inherit, see­ing I
am a great people, for­asmuch as the LORD hath blessed me
hitherto?

15 And Joshua answered them, If thou be a great people, then get
thee up to the wood coun­try, and cut down for thy­self there in
the land of the Per­izzites and of the giants, if mount Eph­raim
be too nar­row for thee.

16 And the chil­dren of Joseph said, The hill is not enough for
us: and all the Canaan­ites that dwell in the land of the
val­ley have chari­ots of iron, both they who are of Beth­shean
and her towns, and they who are of the val­ley of Jezreel.

17 And Joshua spake unto the house of Joseph, even to Eph­raim and
to Man­as­seh, say­ing, Thou art a great people, and hast great
power: thou shalt not have one lot only:

18 But the moun­tain shall be thine; for it is a wood, and thou
shalt cut it down: and the out­go­ings of it shall be thine: for
thou shalt drive out the Canaan­ites, though they have iron
chari­ots, and though they be strong.

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1 And the lot of the chil­dren of Joseph fell from Jordan by
Jericho, unto the water of Jericho on the east, to the
wil­der­ness that goeth up from Jericho through­out mount Bethel,

2 And goeth out from Bethel to Luz, and pas­seth along unto the
bor­ders of Archi to Ataroth,

3 And goeth down west­ward to the coast of Japh­leti, unto the
coast of Beth­horon the nether, and to Gezer; and the goings
out thereof are at the sea.

4 So the chil­dren of Joseph, Man­as­seh and Eph­raim, took their
inheritance.

5 And the bor­der of the chil­dren of Eph­raim accord­ing to their
fam­il­ies was thus: even the bor­der of their inher­it­ance on the
east side was Atarothad­dar, unto Beth­horon the upper;

6 And the bor­der went out toward the sea to Mich­methah on the
north side; and the bor­der went about east­ward unto
Taanath­shiloh, and passed by it on the east to Janohah;

7 And it went down from Jan­o­hah to Ataroth, and to Naarath, and
came to Jericho, and went out at Jordan.

8 The bor­der went out from Tap­puah west­ward unto the river
Kanah; and the goings out thereof were at the sea. This is the
inher­it­ance of the tribe of the chil­dren of Eph­raim by their
families.

9 And the sep­ar­ate cit­ies for the chil­dren of Eph­raim were among
the inher­it­ance of the chil­dren of Man­as­seh, all the cit­ies
with their villages.

10 And they drave not out the Canaan­ites that dwelt in Gezer: but
the Canaan­ites dwell among the Eph­raim­ites unto this day, and
serve under tribute.

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1 This then was the lot of the tribe of the chil­dren of Judah by
their fam­il­ies; even to the bor­der of Edom the wil­der­ness of
Zin south­ward was the utter­most part of the south coast.

2 And their south bor­der was from the shore of the salt sea,
from the bay that looketh southward:

3 And it went out to the south side to Maale­hac­rabbim, and
passed along to Zin, and ascen­ded up on the south side unto
Kadesh­barnea, and passed along to Hezron, and went up to Adar,
and fetched a com­pass to Karkaa:

4 From thence it passed toward Azmon, and went out unto the
river of Egypt; and the goings out of that coast were at the
sea: this shall be your south coast.

5 And the east bor­der was the salt sea, even unto the end of
Jordan. And their bor­der in the north quarter was from the bay
of the sea at the utter­most part of Jordan:

6 And the bor­der went up to Beth­hogla, and passed along by the
north of Beth­ara­bah; and the bor­der went up to the stone of
Bohan the son of Reuben:

7 And the bor­der went up toward Debir from the val­ley of Achor,
and so north­ward, look­ing toward Gilgal, that is before the
going up to Adum­mim, which is on the south side of the river:
and the bor­der passed toward the waters of Enshemesh, and the
goings out thereof were at Enrogel:

8 And the bor­der went up by the val­ley of the son of Hin­nom unto
the south side of the Jebus­ite; the same is Jer­u­s­alem: and the
bor­der went up to the top of the moun­tain that lieth before
the val­ley of Hin­nom west­ward, which is at the end of the
val­ley of the giants northward:

9 And the bor­der was drawn from the top of the hill unto the
foun­tain of the water of Neph­toah, and went out to the cit­ies
of mount Eph­ron; and the bor­der was drawn to Baa­lah, which is
Kirjathjearim:

10 And the bor­der com­passed from Baa­lah west­ward unto mount Seir,
and passed along unto the side of mount Jearim, which is
Chesalon, on the north side, and went down to Beth­shemesh, and
passed on to Timnah:

11 And the bor­der went out unto the side of Ekron north­ward: and
the bor­der was drawn to Shi­cron, and passed along to mount
Baa­lah, and went out unto Jab­neel; and the goings out of the
bor­der were at the sea.

12 And the west bor­der was to the great sea, and the coast
thereof. This is the coast of the chil­dren of Judah round
about accord­ing to their families.

13 And unto Caleb the son of Jephun­neh he gave a part among the
chil­dren of Judah, accord­ing to the com­mand­ment of the LORD to
Joshua, even the city of Arba the father of Anak, which city
is Hebron.

14 And Caleb drove thence the three sons of Anak, She­shai, and
Ahi­man, and Talmai, the chil­dren of Anak.

15 And he went up thence to the inhab­it­ants of Debir: and the
name of Debir before was Kirjathsepher.

16 And Caleb said, He that smiteth Kir­jath­sepher, and taketh it,
to him will I give Achsah my daugh­ter to wife.

17 And Oth­niel the son of Kenaz, the brother of Caleb, took it:
and he gave him Achsah his daugh­ter to wife.

18 And it came to pass, as she came unto him, that she moved him
to ask of her father a field: and she lighted off her ass; and
Caleb said unto her, What would­est thou?

19 Who answered, Give me a bless­ing; for thou hast given me a
south land; give me also springs of water. And he gave her the
upper springs, and the nether springs.

20 This is the inher­it­ance of the tribe of the chil­dren of Judah
accord­ing to their families.

21 And the utter­most cit­ies of the tribe of the chil­dren of Judah
toward the coast of Edom south­ward were Kabzeel, and Eder, and
Jagur,

22 And Kinah, and Dimo­nah, and Adadah,

23 And Kedesh, and Hazor, and Ithnan,

24 Ziph, and Telem, and Bealoth,

25 And Hazor, Had­at­tah, and Kerioth, and Hezron, which is Hazor,

26 Amam, and Shema, and Moladah,

27 And Haz­ar­gad­dah, and Hesh­mon, and Bethpalet,

28 And Haz­arshual, and Beer­sheba, and Bizjothjah,

29 Baa­lah, and Iim, and Azem,

30 And Eltolad, and Chesil, and Hormah,

31 And Zik­lag, and Mad­man­nah, and Sansannah,

32 And Lebaoth, and Shil­him, and Ain, and Rim­mon: all the cit­ies
are twenty and nine, with their villages:

33 And in the val­ley, Eshtaol, and Zoreah, and Ashnah,

34 And Zanoah, and Engan­nim, Tap­puah, and Enam,

35 Jar­muth, and Adullam, Socoh, and Azekah,

36 And Sharaim, and Adithaim, and Gederah, and Gederothaim;
four­teen cit­ies with their villages:

37 Zenan, and Hadashah, and Migdalgad,

38 And Dilean, and Mizpeh, and Joktheel,

39 Lachish, and Bozkath, and Eglon,

40 And Cab­bon, and Lahmam, and Kithlish,

41 And Gederoth, Beth­d­agon, and Naamah, and Makke­dah; six­teen
cit­ies with their villages:

42 Lib­nah, and Ether, and Ashan,

43 And Jiph­tah, and Ash­nah, and Nezib,

44 And Kei­lah, and Achzib, and Mare­shah; nine cit­ies with their
villages:

45 Ekron, with her towns and her villages:

46 From Ekron even unto the sea, all that lay near Ash­dod, with
their villages:

47 Ash­dod with her towns and her vil­lages, Gaza with her towns
and her vil­lages, unto the river of Egypt, and the great sea,
and the bor­der thereof:

48 And in the moun­tains, Shamir, and Jat­tir, and Socoh,

49 And Dan­nah, and Kir­jath­san­nah, which is Debir,

50 And Anab, and Eshte­moh, and Anim,

51 And Gos­hen, and Holon, and Giloh; eleven cit­ies with their
villages:

52 Arab, and Dumah, and Eshean,

53 And Janum, and Beth­tap­puah, and Aphekah,

54 And Hum­tah, and Kir­jath­arba, which is Hebron, and Zior; nine
cit­ies with their villages:

55 Maon, Car­mel, and Ziph, and Juttah,

56 And Jezreel, and Jok­deam, and Zanoah,

57 Cain, Gibeah, and Tim­nah; ten cit­ies with their villages:

58 Hal­hul, Beth­zur, and Gedor,

59 And Maarath, and Beth­an­oth, and Eltekon; six cit­ies with their
villages:

60 Kir­jath­baal, which is Kir­jathjearim, and Rab­bah; two cit­ies
with their villages:

61 In the wil­der­ness, Beth­ara­bah, Mid­din, and Secacah,

62 And Nib­shan, and the city of Salt, and Engedi; six cit­ies with
their villages.

63 As for the Jebus­ites the inhab­it­ants of Jer­u­s­alem, the
chil­dren of Judah could not drive them out; but the Jebus­ites
dwell with the chil­dren of Judah at Jer­u­s­alem unto this day.

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1 And these are the coun­tries which the chil­dren of Israel
inher­ited in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest, and
Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fath­ers of the
tribes of the chil­dren of Israel, dis­trib­uted for inher­it­ance
to them.

2 By lot was their inher­it­ance, as the LORD com­manded by the
hand of Moses, for the nine tribes, and for the half tribe.

3 For Moses had given the inher­it­ance of two tribes and an half
tribe on the other side Jordan: but unto the Levites he gave
none inher­it­ance among them.

4 For the chil­dren of Joseph were two tribes, Man­as­seh and
Eph­raim: there­fore they gave no part unto the Levites in the
land, save cit­ies to dwell in, with their sub­urbs for their
cattle and for their substance.

5 As the LORD com­manded Moses, so the chil­dren of Israel did,
and they divided the land.

6 Then the chil­dren of Judah came unto Joshua in Gilgal: and
Caleb the son of Jephun­neh the Kenez­ite said unto him, Thou
know­est the thing that the LORD said unto Moses the man of God
con­cern­ing me and thee in Kadeshbarnea.

7 Forty years old was I when Moses the ser­vant of the LORD sent
me from Kadesh­barnea to espy out the land; and I brought him
word again as it was in mine heart.

8 Nev­er­the­less my brethren that went up with me made the heart
of the people melt: but I wholly fol­lowed the LORD my God.

9 And Moses sware on that day, say­ing, Surely the land whereon
thy feet have trod­den shall be thine inher­it­ance, and thy
children’s for ever, because thou hast wholly fol­lowed the
LORD my God.

10 And now, behold, the LORD hath kept me alive, as he said,
these forty and five years, even since the LORD spake this
word unto Moses, while the chil­dren of Israel wandered in the
wil­der­ness: and now, lo, I am this day fourscore and five
years old.

11 As yet I am as strong this day as I was in the day that Moses
sent me: as my strength was then, even so is my strength now,
for war, both to go out, and to come in.

12 Now there­fore give me this moun­tain, whereof the LORD spake in
that day; for thou heard­est in that day how the Ana­kims were
there, and that the cit­ies were great and fenced: if so be the
LORD will be with me, then I shall be able to drive them out,
as the LORD said.

13 And Joshua blessed him, and gave unto Caleb the son of
Jephun­neh Hebron for an inheritance.

14 Hebron there­fore became the inher­it­ance of Caleb the son of
Jephun­neh the Kenez­ite unto this day, because that he wholly
fol­lowed the LORD God of Israel.

15 And the name of Hebron before was Kir­jath­arba; which Arba was
a great man among the Ana­kims. And the land had rest from war.

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1 Now Joshua was old and stricken in years; and the LORD said
unto him, Thou art old and stricken in years, and there
remaineth yet very much land to be possessed.

2 This is the land that yet remaineth: all the bor­ders of the
Phil­istines, and all Geshuri,

3 From Sihor, which is before Egypt, even unto the bor­ders of
Ekron north­ward, which is coun­ted to the Canaan­ite: five lords
of the Phil­istines; the Gazath­ites, and the Ash­dothites, the
Eshkalon­ites, the Gittites, and the Ekron­ites; also the
Avites:

4 From the south, all the land of the Canaan­ites, and Mearah
that is beside the Sido­ni­ans unto Aphek, to the bor­ders of the
Amorites:

5 And the land of the Gib­lites, and all Lebanon, toward the
sun­rising, from Baal­gad under mount Her­mon unto the enter­ing
into Hamath.

6 All the inhab­it­ants of the hill coun­try from Lebanon unto
Mis­re­photh­maim, and all the Sido­ni­ans, them will I drive out
from before the chil­dren of Israel: only divide thou it by lot
unto the Israel­ites for an inher­it­ance, as I have com­manded
thee.

7 Now there­fore divide this land for an inher­it­ance unto the
nine tribes, and the half tribe of Manasseh,

8 With whom the Reuben­ites and the Gadites have received their
inher­it­ance, which Moses gave them, bey­ond Jordan east­ward,
even as Moses the ser­vant of the LORD gave them;

09 From Aroer, that is upon the bank of the river Arnon, and the
city that is in the midst of the river, and all the plain of
Medeba unto Dibon;

10 And all the cit­ies of Sihon king of the Amor­ites, which
reigned in Hesh­bon, unto the bor­der of the chil­dren of Ammon;

11 And Gilead, and the bor­der of the Geshur­ites and Maachath­ites,
and all mount Her­mon, and all Bashan unto Salcah;

12 All the king­dom of Og in Bashan, which reigned in Ashtaroth
and in Edrei, who remained of the rem­nant of the giants: for
these did Moses smite, and cast them out.

13 Nev­er­the­less the chil­dren of Israel expelled not the
Geshur­ites, nor the Maachath­ites: but the Geshur­ites and the
Maachath­ites dwell among the Israel­ites until this day.

14 Only unto the tribes of Levi he gave none inher­it­ance; the
sac­ri­fices of the LORD God of Israel made by fire are their
inher­it­ance, as he said unto them.

15 And Moses gave unto the tribe of the chil­dren of Reuben
inher­it­ance accord­ing to their families.

16 And their coast was from Aroer, that is on the bank of the
river Arnon, and the city that is in the midst of the river,
and all the plain by Medeba;

17 Hesh­bon, and all her cit­ies that are in the plain; Dibon, and
Bamoth­baal, and Bethbaalmeon,

18 And Jahaza, and Kedemoth, and Mephaath,

19 And Kir­jath­aim, and Sibmah, and Zareth­shahar in the mount of
the valley,

20 And Beth­peor, and Ash­doth­pis­gah, and Bethjeshimoth,

21 And all the cit­ies of the plain, and all the king­dom of Sihon
king of the Amor­ites, which reigned in Hesh­bon, whom Moses
smote with the princes of Midian, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and
Hur, and Reba, which were dukes of Sihon, dwell­ing in the
country.

22 Bal­aam also the son of Beor, the sooth­sayer, did the chil­dren
of Israel slay with the sword among them that were slain by
them.

23 And the bor­der of the chil­dren of Reuben was Jordan, and the
bor­der thereof. This was the inher­it­ance of the chil­dren of
Reuben after their fam­il­ies, the cit­ies and the vil­lages
thereof.

24 And Moses gave inher­it­ance unto the tribe of Gad, even unto
the chil­dren of Gad accord­ing to their families.

25 And their coast was Jazer, and all the cit­ies of Gilead, and
half the land of the chil­dren of Ammon, unto Aroer that is
before Rabbah;

26 And from Hesh­bon unto Ramathmizpeh, and Betonim; and from
Mahanaim unto the bor­der of Debir;

27 And in the val­ley, Beth­aram, and Beth­n­im­rah, and Suc­coth, and
Zaphon, the rest of the king­dom of Sihon king of Hesh­bon,
Jordan and his bor­der, even unto the edge of the sea of
Chin­nereth on the other side Jordan eastward.

28 This is the inher­it­ance of the chil­dren of Gad after their
fam­il­ies, the cit­ies, and their villages.

29 And Moses gave inher­it­ance unto the half tribe of Man­as­seh:
and this was the pos­ses­sion of the half tribe of the chil­dren
of Man­as­seh by their families.

30 And their coast was from Mahanaim, all Bashan, all the king­dom
of Og king of Bashan, and all the towns of Jair, which are in
Bashan, threescore cities:

31 And half Gilead, and Ashtaroth, and Edrei, cit­ies of the
king­dom of Og in Bashan, were per­tain­ing unto the chil­dren of
Machir the son of Man­as­seh, even to the one half of the
chil­dren of Machir by their families.

32 These are the coun­tries which Moses did dis­trib­ute for
inher­it­ance in the plains of Moab, on the other side Jordan,
by Jericho, eastward.

33 But unto the tribe of Levi Moses gave not any inher­it­ance: the
LORD God of Israel was their inher­it­ance, as he said unto
them.