1THE whole Israelite community assembled at Shiloh and established the Tent of Meeting there. The country now lay subdued at their feet;
2but there remained seven tribes among the Israelites who had not yet taken possession of the holdings which would fall to them.
3Joshua therefore said to them, “How much longer will you neglect to take possession of the land which the LORD the God of your fathers has assigned to you?
4Appoint three men from each tribe, and I shall send them out to travel throughout the country. They are to make a survey of it showing the holding suitable for each tribe, and come back to me,
5and then it can be shared out among you in seven portions. Judah will retain his boundary in the south, and the house of Joseph their boundary in the north.
6Survey the land in seven portions, and bring your findings to me, and I shall cast lots for you in the presence of the LORD our God.
7Levi has no share among you, because his share is the priesthood of the LORD; and Gad, Reuben, and the half tribe of Manasseh have each taken possession of their holding east of the Jordan, which Moses the servant of the LORD assigned to them.”
8The men set out on their journey. Joshua ordered the emissaries to survey the country: “Go through the whole country,” he said, “survey it, and return to me, and I shall cast lots for you here before the LORD in Shiloh.”
9So the men went and passed through the country; they recorded the survey on a scroll, town by town, in seven portions. Then they came to Joshua in the camp at Shiloh;
10he cast lots for them in Shiloh before the LORD, and apportioned the land there to the Israelites in their proper shares.
11This is the lot which fell to the tribe of the Benjamites family by family. The territory allotted to them lay between the territories of Judah and Joseph.
12Their boundary at its northern corner starts from the Jordan; it goes up the slope on the north side of Jericho, continuing westwards into the hill-country, and its limit there is the wilderness of Beth-aven.
13From there it runs on to Luz, to the southern slope of Luz, that is Bethel, and down to Ataroth-addar over the hill-country south of Lower Beth-horon.
14The boundary then bends round at the west corner southwards from the hill-country above Beth-horon, and its limit is Kiriath-baal, that is Kiriath-jearim, which belongs to Judah. This is the western side.
15The southern side starts from the edge of Kiriath-jearim and ends at the spring of the waters of Nephtoah.
16It goes down to the edge of the hill to the east of the valley of Ben-hinnom, north of the vale of Rephaim, down the valley of Hinnom, to the southern slope of the Jebusites and so to En-rogel.
17It then bends round north and comes out at En-shemesh, goes on to the districts in front of the ascent of Adummim and thence down to the stone of Bohan son of Reuben.
18It passes to the northern side of the slope facing the Arabah and goes down to the Arabah,
19passing the northern slope of Beth-hoglah, and its limit is the northern inlet of the Dead Sea, at the southern mouth of the Jordan. This forms the southern boundary.
20The Jordan is the boundary on the east side. This is the holding of the Benjamites, the complete circuit of their boundaries family by family.
21The towns belonging to the tribe of the Benjamites family by family are: Jericho, Beth-hoglah, Emek-keziz,
22Beth-arabah, Zemaraim, Bethel,
23Avvim, Parah, Ophrah,
24Kephar-ammoni, Ophni, and Geba: twelve towns in all with their hamlets.
25Gibeon, Ramah, Beeroth,
26Mizpah, Kephirah, Mozah,
27Rekem, Irpeel, Taralah,
28Zela, Eleph, Jebus, that is Jerusalem, Gibeah, and Kiriath-jearim: fourteen towns in all with their hamlets. This is the holding of the Benjamites family by family.
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