Dual Panel1The second lot cast was for Simeon, the tribe of the Simeonites family by family. Their holding was included in that of Judah.
2For their holding they had Beersheba, Moladah,
3Hazar-shual, Balah, Ezem,
4Eltolad, Bethul, Hormah,
5Ziklag, Beth-marcaboth, Hazar-susah,
6Beth-lebaoth, and Sharuhen: in all, thirteen towns and their hamlets.
7They had Ain, Rimmon, Ether, and Ashan: four towns and their hamlets,
8all the hamlets round these towns as far as Baalath-beer and Ramath-negeb. This was the holding of the tribe of Simeon family by family.
9The holding of the Simeonites was part of the land allotted to the men of Judah, because their share was larger than they needed. The Simeonites therefore had their holding within the territory of Judah.
10The third lot fell to the Zebulunites family by family. The boundary of their holding extended to Shadud.
11Their boundary went up westwards as far as Maralah and touched Dabbesheth and the wadi east of Jokneam.
12It turned back from Shadud eastwards towards the sunrise up to the border of Kisloth-tabor, on to Daberath and up to Japhia.
13From there it crossed eastwards towards the sunrise to Gath-hepher, to Ittah-kazin, out to Rimmon, and bent round to Neah.
14The northern boundary went round to Hannathon, and its limits were the valley of Jiphtah-el,
15Kattath, Nahalal, Shimron, Idalah, and Bethlehem: twelve towns in all with their hamlets.
16These towns and their hamlets were the holding of Zebulun family by family.
17The fourth lot cast was for the sons of Issachar family by family.
18Their boundary included Jezreel, Kesulloth, Shunem,
19Hapharaim, Shion, Anaharath,
20Rabbith, Kishon, Ebez,
21Remeth, En-gannim, En-haddah, and Beth-pazzez.
22The boundary touched Tabor, Shahazumah, and Beth-shemesh, and its limit was the Jordan: sixteen towns with their hamlets.
23This was the holding of the tribe of the sons of Issachar family by family, both towns and hamlets.
24The fifth lot cast was for the tribe of the Asherites family by family.
25Their boundary included Helkath, Hali, Beten, Akshaph,
26Alammelech, Amad, and Mishal; it touched Carmel on the west and the swamp of Libnath.
27It then turned back towards the east to Beth-dagon, touched Zebulun and the valley of Jiphtah-el on the north at Beth-emek and Neiel, and reached Cabul on its northern side,
28and Abdon, Rehob, Hammon, and Kanah as far as Greater Sidon.
29The boundary turned at Ramah, going as far as the fortress city of Tyre, and then back again to Hosah, and its limits to the west were Mehalbeh, Achzib,
30Acco, Aphek, and Rehob: twenty-two towns in all with their hamlets.
31This was the holding of the tribe of Asher family by family, these towns and their hamlets.
32The sixth lot cast was for the sons of Naphtali family by family.
33Their boundary started from Heleph and from Elon-bezaanannim and ran past Adami-nekeb and Jabneel as far as Lakkum, and its limit was the Jordan.
34The boundary turned back westwards to Aznoth-tabor and from there on to Hukok. It touched Zebulun on the south, Asher on the west, and the low-lying land by the Jordan on the east.
35Their fortified towns were Ziddim, Zer, Hamath, Rakkath, Kinnereth,
36Adamah, Ramah, Hazor,
37Kedesh, Edrei, En-hazor,
38Iron, Migdal-el, Horem, Beth-anath, and Beth-shemesh: nineteen towns with their hamlets.
39This was the holding of the tribe of Naphtali family by family, both towns and hamlets.
40The seventh lot cast was for the tribe of the sons of Dan family by family.
41The boundary of their holding was Zorah, Eshtaol, Ir-shemesh,
42Shaalabbin, Aijalon, Jithlah,
43Elon, Timnah, Ekron,
44Eltekeh, Gibbethon, Baalath,
45Jehud, Bene-berak, and Gath-rimmon;
46and on the west, Jarkon was the boundary opposite Joppa.
47But the Danites, when they lost this territory, marched against Leshem, which they attacked and captured. They put its people to the sword, occupied it, and settled there; and they renamed the place Dan after their ancestor Dan.
48This was the holding of the tribe of the sons of Dan family by family, these towns and their hamlets.
49So the Israelites finished allocating the land and marking out its frontiers; and they gave Joshua son of Nun a holding within their territory.
50They followed the commands of the LORD and gave him the town for which he asked, Timnath-serah in the hill-country of Ephraim; he rebuilt it and settled there.
51These are the holdings which Eleazar the priest and Joshua son of Nun and the heads of families assigned by lot to the Israelite tribes at Shiloh before the LORD at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting. Thus they completed the distribution of the land.