Joshua 18
18:1And an assembly was held, all the congregation of the sons of Israel in Shiloh; and they pitched there the tent of the testimony, and the land was seized by them.
18:2And the sons of Israel were left, for seven tribes did not inherit their inheritance.
18:3And Joshua said to the sons of Israel, For how long shall you faint to enter to inherit the land which the lord God of our fathers gave to us?
18:4Give from out of yours three men from a tribe, and send them; and rising up let them go through the land, and let them diagram it before me! as it shall behoove to divide it. And they came to him.
18:5And he divided to them seven portions -- Judah shall stand as a border from the south to them, and the sons of Joseph shall stand upon their border from the north.
18:6And you portion the land into seven portions, and bring the diagram to me here! and I shall bring forth to you a lot here before the lord your God.
18:7For there is no portion to the sons of Levi among you; for the priesthood of the lord is his portion. And Gad, and Reuben, and the half tribe of Manasseh received its inheritance on the other side of the Jordan eastward, which Moses the servant of the lord gave to them.
18:8And rising up the men went. And Joshua gave charge to the men going to explore the land, saying, Spread, and go through the land, and explore it, and come to me! and I will bring forth to you here a lot before the lord in Shiloh.
18:9And the men went and spread in the land, and explored it. And they beheld it, and they wrote about it according to her cities, seven portions in a scroll, and they brought it to Joshua in the camp in Shiloh.
18:10And Joshua cast for them a lot in Shiloh before the lord.
18:11And Joshua portioned there the land to the sons of Israel according to their distributions. And there came forth the lot of the tribe of the sons of Benjamin first according to their peoples. And the borders of their lot came forth between the sons of Judah and between the sons of Joseph.
18:12And their borders were from the north of the Jordan; the borders shall ascend by the back of Jericho at the north, and shall ascend unto the mountain to the west; and its outer reaches will be Madbariti of Beth-aven.
18:13And the borders will go from there to Luz from the south -- this is Beth-el. And the borders will go down from Ataroth Adar upon the mountainous area which is towards the south of Beth-horon, the part below.
18:14And the borders shall go through and go around upon the part that looks upon the west from the south, from the mountain upon the face of Beth-horon south. And its outer reaches will be unto Kirjath-baal (this is Kirjath-jearim) a city of the sons of Judah. This is the part towards the west.
18:15And the part towards the south of the part of Kirjath-baal, even shall go through unto Gasin, and it shall go forth to the spring of the water Nephtoah.
18:16And the borders shall go down unto the part of the mountain which is at the face of the grove of the son Hinnom, which is of the part of Emek-rephaim from the north, and it shall go down unto Gehenna at the back of Jebus from the south. And it shall go down upon the spring of Rogel.
18:17And it shall pass out unto the north, and it shall go through to the spring of Beth-shemesh.
18:18And it shall go by unto Geliloth, which is before by the ascent of Adummim. And it shall go down upon the stone of Bohan of the sons of Reuben. And shall go by the back of Beth-araba from the north, and shall go down to Arabah. And it shall go by at the borders at the back of the sea from the north.
18:19And the outer reaches of the borders shall be upon the ridge of the sea of salts from the north, to part of the Jordan from the south. These are the borders of the south.
18:20And the Jordan shall define the bounds of it from the part from the east. This is the inheritance of the sons of Benjamin, its borders round about, according to their peoples.
18:21And the cities of the tribe of the sons of Benjamin were according to their peoples -- Jericho, and Beth-hoglah, and Mekeziz,
18:22and Beth-arabah, and Zemaraim, and Beth-el,
18:23and Avim, and Parah, and Ophrah,
18:24and Chephar-haammonai, and Ophni and Gaba; twelve cities and their towns;
18:25Gibeon, and Ramah, and Beeroth,
18:26and Mizpeh, and Chephirah, and Mozah,
18:27and Rekem, and Irpeel, and Taralah,
18:28and Jebus (this is Jerusalem), and Gibeath, and the city Jearim; thirteen cities and their towns. This is the inheritance of the sons of Benjamin according to their peoples.