Joshua:18

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drb @Joshua:18:1 @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 . drb @Joshua:18:2 @But there remained seven tribes of the children of Israel , which as yet had not received their possessions . drb @Joshua:18:3 @2l And their cities were , Jericho and Bethhagla and Vale-Casis , drb @Joshua:18:4 @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 ? drb @Joshua:18:5 @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 . drb @Joshua:18:6 @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 . drb @Joshua:18:7 @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 . drb @Joshua:18:8 @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 . drb @Joshua:18:9 @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 . drb @Joshua:18:10 @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 . drb @Joshua:18:11 @And he cast lots before the Lord in Silo , and divided the land to the children of Israel into seven parts drb @Joshua:18:12 @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 . drb @Joshua:18:13 @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 , drb @Joshua:18:14 @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 . drb @Joshua:18:15 @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 . drb @Joshua:18:16 @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 . drb @Joshua:18:17 @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 , drb @Joshua:18:18 @Passing thence to the north , and going out to Ensemes , that is to say , the fountain of the sue : drb @Joshua:18:19 @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 , drb @Joshua:18:20 @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 : drb @Joshua:18:21 @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 . drb @Joshua:18:22 @Betharaba and Samaraim and Bethel , drb @Joshua:18:23 @And Avim and Aphara and Ophera , drb @Joshua:18:24 @The town Emona and Ophni and Gabee : twelve cities , and their villages . drb @Joshua:18:25 @Gabam and Rama and Beroth , drb @Joshua:18:26 @26And Mesphe , and Caphara , and Amosa , drb @Joshua:18:27 @And Recem , Jarephel and Tharela , drb @Joshua:18:28 @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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