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Joshue 18
And all the children of Israel assembled together in
Silo, and there they set up the tabernacle of the testimony,
and the land was subdued before them.
But there remained seven tribes of the children of Israel,
which as yet had not received their possessions.
And their cities were, Jericho and Bethhagla and Vale-Casis,
And Josue said to them: How long are you indolent and
slack, and go not in to possess the land which the Lord
the God of your fathers hath given you?
Choose of every tribe three men, that I may send them,
and they may go and compass the land, and mark it out
according to the number of each multitude: and bring
back to me what they have marked out.
Divide to yourselves the land into seven parts: let
Juda be in his bounds on the south side, and the house
of Joseph on the north.
The land in the midst between these mark ye out into
seven parts; and you shall come hither to me, that I
may cast lots for you before the Lord your God.
For the Levites have no part among you, but the priesthood
of the Lord is their inheritance. And Gad and Ruben,
and the half tribe of Manasses have already received
their possessions beyond the Jordan eastward: which
Moses the servant of the Lord gave them.
And when the men were risen up, to go to mark out the
land, Josue commanded them, saying: Go round the land
and mark it out, and return to me: that I may cast lots
for you before the Lord in Silo.
So they went: and surveying it divided it into seven
parts, writing them down in a book. And they returned
to Josue, to the camp in Silo.
And he cast lots before the Lord in Silo, and divided
the land to the children of Israel into seven parts.
And first came up the lot of the children of Benjamin
by their families, to possess the land between the children
of Juda, and the children of Joseph.
And their border northward was from the Jordan: going
along by the side of Jericho on the north side, and
thence going up westward to the mountains, and reaching
to the wilderness of Bethaven,
And passing along southward by Luza, the same is Bethel:
and it goeth down into Ataroth-addar to the mountain,
that is on the south of the nether Beth-horon.
And it bendeth thence going round towards the sea, south
of the mountain that looketh towards Beth-horon to the
southwest: and the outgoings thereof are into Cariathbaal,
which is called also Cariathiarim, a city of the children
of Juda. This is their coast towards the sea, westward.
But on the south side the border goeth out from part
of Cariathiarim towards the sea, and cometh to the fountain
of the waters of Nephtoa.
And it goeth down to that part of the mountain that
looketh on the valley of the children of Ennom: and
is over against the north quarter in the furthermost
part of the valley of Raphaim, and it goeth down into
Geennom (that is the valley of Ennom) by the side of
the Jebusite to the south: and cometh to the fountain
of Rogel,
Passing thence to the north, and going out to Ensemes,
that is to say, the fountain of the sue:
And it passeth along to the hills that are over against
the ascent of Adommim: and it goeth down to Abenboen,
that is, the stone of Been the son of Ruben: and it
passeth on the north side to the champaign countries;
and goeth down into the plain,
And it passeth by Bethhagla northward: and the outgoings
thereof are towards the north of the most salt sea at
the south end of the Jordan:
Which is the border of it on the east side. This is
the possession of the children of Benjamin by their
borders round about, and their families.
Betharaba and Samaraim and Bethel,
And Avim and Aphara and Ophera,
The town Emona and Ophni and Gabee: twelve cities, and
their villages.
Gabam and Rama and Beroth,
And Mesphe, and Caphara, and Amosa,
And Recem, Jarephel and Tharela,
And Sela, Eleph and Jebus, which is Jerusalem, Gabaath
and Cariath: fourteen cities, and their villages. This
is the possession of the children of Benjamin by their
families. |
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