Joshua

Chapter 18

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1The whole congregation of the sons of Israel assembled at Shiloh and set up the tent of meeting there. The land was subdued before them.

2Seven tribes remained among the sons of Israel who had not divided their inheritance.

3Joshua said to the sons of Israel, How long will you be slack about going in to take the land that Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has given you?

4Provide yourselves three men for a tribe, and I will send them. They shall rise, walk through the land, write it according to their inheritance, and come to me.

5They shall divide it into seven portions. Judah shall stand on his border on the south, and the house of Joseph shall stand on their border on the north.

6You shall write the land in seven portions and bring it here to me, and I will cast the lot for you here before Yahweh our God.

7For the Levites have no portion among you, because the priesthood of Yahweh is their inheritance. Gad, Reuben, and the half-tribe of Manasseh have taken their inheritance beyond the Jordan eastward, which Moses, the servant of Yahweh, gave them.

8The men rose and went. Joshua commanded those who went to write the land, saying, Go, walk through the land, write it, and return to me, and I will cast the lot for you here before Yahweh at Shiloh.

9The men went and passed through the land and wrote it by cities, in seven portions, on a scroll. They came to Joshua, to the camp at Shiloh.

10Joshua cast the lot for them at Shiloh before Yahweh, and there Joshua divided the land to the sons of Israel according to their divisions.

11The lot of the tribe of the sons of Benjamin came up, by their clans, and the border of their lot went out between the sons of Judah and the sons of Joseph.

12Their border on the north side was from the Jordan. The border went up to the shoulder of Jericho on the north and went up into the hill country westward, and its ends was the wilderness of Beth-aven.

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The written verb is והיה, singular. The Masoretic reading is והיו, plural. The noun “ends” is plural. The written singular verb is printed.

13From there the border passed to Luz, to the shoulder of Luz on the south, that is Bethel. The border went down to Ataroth-addar, on the hill that is south of Lower Beth-horon.

14The border bent and turned for the west side, southward, from the hill that faces Beth-horon on the south, and its ends was at Kiriath-baal, that is Kiriath-jearim, a city of the sons of Judah. This is the west side.

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The written verb is והיה, singular. The Masoretic reading is והיו, plural. The written singular verb is printed.

15The south side was from the end of Kiriath-jearim. The border went out westward, and it went out to the spring of the waters of Nephtoah.

16The border went down to the end of the hill that faces the valley of Ben-hinnom, which is in the Valley of Rephaim on the north. It went down the valley of Hinnom to the shoulder of the Jebusite on the south, and it went down to En-rogel.

17It bent on the north and went out to En-shemesh, and it went out to Geliloth, which is opposite the ascent of Adummim, and it went down to the stone of Bohan son of Reuben.

18It passed to the shoulder facing the Arabah on the north, and went down to the Arabah.

19The border passed to the shoulder of Beth-hoglah on the north, and its ends of the border was at the north tongue of the Salt Sea, at the south end of the Jordan. This is the south border.

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The written verb is והיה, singular. The Masoretic reading is והיו, plural. The written noun is תצאותיו, “its ends.” The Masoretic reading is תצאות, “the ends,” without the suffix. The written verb and the written “its ends” are printed.

20The Jordan borders it on the east side. This is the inheritance of the sons of Benjamin, by its borders all around, by their clans.

21The cities of the tribe of the sons of Benjamin, by their clans, were Jericho, Beth-hoglah, and Emek-keziz,

22Beth-arabah, Zemaraim, and Bethel,

23the Avvim, Parah, and Ophrah,

24Kefar-haamni, Ophni, and Geba: twelve cities and their villages.

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The written consonants are העמני, Kefar-haamni. The Masoretic reading is העמנה, Kefar-haammonah. The written Kefar-haamni is printed.

25Gibeon, Ramah, and Beeroth,

26the Mizpeh, the Kephirah, and the Mozah,

27Rekem, Irpeel, and Taralah,

28Zela, Eleph, the Jebusite, that is Jerusalem, Gibeath, and Kiriath: fourteen cities and their villages. This is the inheritance of the sons of Benjamin, by their clans.