[1] And all the meeting of the children of Israel came together at Shiloh
and put up the Tent of meeting there: and the land was crushed before them.
[2] But there were still seven tribes among the children of Israel who had
not taken up their heritage. [3] Then Joshua said to the children of
Israel, Why are you so slow to go in and take up your heritage in the land
which the Lord, the God of your fathers, has given you? [4] Take from among
you three men from every tribe; and I will send them to go through the land
and make a record of it for distribution as their heritage; then let them
come back to me. [5] And let them make division of it into seven parts: let
Judah keep inside his limit on the south, and let the children of Joseph
keep inside their limit on the north. [6] And you are to have the land
marked out in seven parts, and come back to me with the record; and I will
make the distribution for you here by the decision of the Lord our God. [7]
For the Levites have no part among you; to be the Lord's priests is their
heritage; and Gad and Reuben and the half-tribe of Manasseh have had their
heritage on the east side of Jordan, given to them by Moses, the servant of
the Lord. [8] So the men got up and went; and Joshua gave orders to those
who went, to make a record of the land, saying, Go up and down through the
land, and make a record of it and come back here to me, and I will make the
distribution for you here by the decision of the Lord in Shiloh. [9] So the
men went, travelling through the land, and made a record of it by towns in
seven parts in a book, and came back to Joshua to the tent-circle at
Shiloh. [10] And Joshua made the distribution for them in Shiloh by the
decision of the Lord, marking out the land for the children of Israel by
their divisions. [11] And the first heritage came out for the tribe of
Benjamin by their families: and the limit of their heritage went between
the children of Judah and the children of Joseph. [12] And their limit on
the north was from the Jordan, and the line goes up to the side of Jericho
on the north and through the hill-country to the west, ending at the waste
land of Beth-aven. [13] And from there the line goes south to Luz, to the
side of Luz (which is Beth-el), then down to Ataroth-addar, by the mountain
to the south of Beth-horon the lower. [14] And the limit is marked as
coming round to the south on the west side from the mountain which is south
of Beth-horon, and ending at Kiriath-baal (which is Kiriath-jearim), a town
of the children of Judah: this is the west part. [15] And the south part is
from the farthest point of Kiriath-jearim, and the line goes out to the
west to the fountain of the waters of Nephtoah: [16] And the line goes down
to the farthest part of the mountain facing the valley of the son of
Hinnom, which is on the north of the valley of Rephaim: from there it goes
down to the valley of Hinnom, to the side of the Jebusite on the south as
far as En-rogel; [17] And it goes to En-shemesh and on to Geliloth,
opposite the way up to Adummim, and it goes down to the stone of Bohan, the
son of Reuben; [18] And it goes on to the side facing the Arabah to the
north, and down to the Arabah; [19] And on to the north side of
Beth-hoglah, ending at the north inlet of the Salt Sea at the south end of
Jordan; this is their limit on the south. [20] And the limit of the east
part is the Jordan. This is the heritage of the children of Benjamin,
marked out for their families by these limits on all sides. [21] And the
towns of the children of Benjamin, given to them in the order of their
families, are Jericho and Beth-hoglah and Emek-kezziz [22] And Beth-arabah
and Zemaraim and Beth-el [23] And Avvim and Parah and Ophrah [24] And
Chephar-Ammoni and Ophni and Geba; twelve towns with their unwalled places;
[25] Gibeon and Ramah and Beeroth [26] And Mizpeh and Chephirah and Mozah
[27] And Rekem and Irpeel and Taralah [28] And Zela, Eleph and the Jebusite
(which is Jerusalem), Gibeath and Kiriath; fourteen towns with their
unwalled places. This is the heritage of the children of Benjamin by their
families.
