Joshua:18

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* Now the whole congregation of the children of Israel assembled together at Shiloh , and set up the tabernacle of meeting there . And the land was subdued before them . * But there remained among the children of Israel seven tribes which had not yet received their inheritance . * Then Joshua said to the children of Israel : "How long will you neglect to go and possess the land which the LORD God of your fathers has given you ? * Pick out from among you three men for each tribe , and I will send them ; they shall rise and go through the land , survey it according to their inheritance , and come back to me . * And they shall divide it into seven parts . Judah shall remain in their territory on the south , and the house of Joseph shall remain in their territory on the north . * You shall therefore survey the land in seven parts and bring the survey here to me , that I may cast lots for you here before the LORD our God . * But the Levites have no part among you , for the priesthood of the LORD is their inheritance . And Gad , Reuben , and half the tribe of Manasseh have received their inheritance beyond the Jordan on the east , which Moses the servant of the LORD gave them ." * Then the men arose to go away ; and Joshua charged those who went to survey the land , saying , "Go , walk through the land , survey it , and come back to me , that I may cast lots for you here before the LORD in Shiloh ." * So the men went , passed through the land , and wrote the survey in a book in seven parts by cities ; and they came to Joshua at the camp in Shiloh . * Then Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before the LORD , and there Joshua divided the land to the children of Israel according to their divisions . * Now the lot of the tribe of the children of Benjamin came up according to their families , and the territory of their lot came out between the children of Judah and the children of Joseph . * Their border on the north side began at the Jordan , and the border went up to the side of Jericho on the north , and went up through the mountains westward ; it ended at the Wilderness of Beth Aven . * The border went over from there toward Luz , to the side of Luz (which is Bethel ) southward ; and the border descended to Ataroth Addar , near the hill that lies on the south side of Lower Beth Horon . * Then the border extended around the west side to the south , from the hill that lies before Beth Horon southward ; and it ended at Kirjath Baal (which is Kirjath Jearim ), a city of the children of Judah . This was the west side . * The south side began at the end of Kirjath Jearim , and the border extended on the west and went out to the spring of the waters of Nephtoah . * Then the border came down to the end of the mountain that lies before the Valley of the Son of Hinnom , which is in the Valley of the Rephaim on the north , descended to the Valley of Hinnom , to the side of the Jebusite city on the south , and descended to En Rogel . * And it went around from the north , went out to En Shemesh , and extended toward Geliloth , which is before the Ascent of Adummim , and descended to the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben . * Then it passed along toward the north side of Arabah , and went down to Arabah . * And the border passed along to the north side of Beth Hoglah ; then the border ended at the north bay at the Salt Sea , at the south end of the Jordan . This was the southern boundary . * The Jordan was its border on the east side . This was the inheritance of the children of Benjamin , according to its boundaries all around , according to their families . * Now the cities of the tribe of the children of Benjamin , according to their families , were Jericho , Beth Hoglah , Emek Keziz , * Beth Arabah , Zemaraim , Bethel , * Avim , Parah , Ophrah , * Chephar Haammoni , Ophni , and Gaba : twelve cities with their villages ; * Gibeon , Ramah , Beeroth , * Mizpah , Chephirah , Mozah , * Rekem , Irpeel , Taralah , * Zelah , Eleph , Jebus (which is Jerusalem ), Gibeath , and Kirjath : fourteen cities with their villages . This was the inheritance of the children of Benjamin according to their families .

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