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I will cast lots for you here before Yahweh our God. <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/18-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>For the Levites have no portion among you because the priesthood of Yahweh is <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>their inheritance. Gad and Reuben and the half-tribe of Manasseh also have received their inheritance eastward beyond the Jordan, which Moses the servant of Yahweh gave them.” <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/18-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Then the men arose and went, and Joshua commanded those who went to write <i>the description of</i> the land, saying, “Go and walk through the land and write <i>a description of</i> it, and return to me; then I will cast lots for you here before Yahweh in Shiloh.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/18-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>So the men went and passed through the land and wrote <i>a description of</i> it by cities in seven divisions in a book; and they came to Joshua to the camp at Shiloh. <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/18-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before Yahweh, and there Joshua divided the land to the sons of Israel according to their divisions. <p class="hdg">Benjamin’s Inheritance</p><p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/18-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Now the lot of the tribe of the sons of Benjamin came up according to their families, and the territory of their lot <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>lay between the sons of Judah and the sons of Joseph. <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/18-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And their border on the north side was from the Jordan; then the border went up to the side of Jericho on the north and went up through the hill country westward, and <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>it ended at the wilderness of Beth-aven. <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/18-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>From there the border passed on to Luz, to the side of Luz (that is, Bethel) southward; and the border went down to Ataroth-addar, near the hill which <i>lies</i> on the south of lower Beth-horon. <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/18-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Then the border curved <i>from there</i> and turned round on the west side southward, from the hill which <i>lies</i> before Beth-horon southward; and <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>it ended at Kiriath-baal (that is, Kiriath-jearim), a city of the sons of Judah. This <i>was</i> the west side. <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/18-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Then the south side <i>was</i> from the edge of Kiriath-jearim, and the border went out westward and went out to the fountain of the waters of Nephtoah. <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/18-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Then the border went down to the edge of the hill which is in the valley of Ben-hinnom, which is in the valley of Rephaim northward; and it went down to the valley of Hinnom, to the slope of the Jebusite southward, and went down to En-rogel. <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/18-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Then it curved northward and went out to En-shemesh and went out to Geliloth, which is opposite the ascent of Adummim, and it went down to the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben. <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/18-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Then it continued to the side in front of the Arabah northward and went down to the Arabah. <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/18-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>And the border passed on to the side of Beth-hoglah northward; and the <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>border ended at the north bay of the Salt Sea, at the south end of the Jordan. This <i>was</i> the south border. <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/18-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Moreover, the Jordan was its border on the east side. This <i>was</i> the inheritance of the sons of Benjamin, according to their families <i>and</i> according to its borders all around. <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/18-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Now the cities of the tribe of the sons of Benjamin according to their families were Jericho and Beth-hoglah and Emek-keziz, <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/18-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>and Beth-arabah and Zemaraim and Bethel, <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/18-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>and Avvim and Parah and Ophrah, <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/18-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>and Chephar-ammoni and Ophni and Geba; twelve cities with their villages. <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/18-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Gibeon and Ramah and Beeroth, <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/18-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>and Mizpeh and Chephirah and Mozah, <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/18-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>and Rekem and Irpeel and Taralah, <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/18-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>and Zelah, Haeleph and the Jebusite (that is, Jerusalem), Gibeah, Kiriath; fourteen cities with their villages. This is the inheritance of the sons of Benjamin according to their families.<A name="fn"></a></p><br /><br /><span class="fnverse">4</span> Lit <i>the</i><br><span class="fnverse">4</span> Lit <i>come</i><br><span class="fnverse">7</span> Lit <i>his</i><br><span class="fnverse">11</span> Lit <i>went out</i><br><span class="fnverse">12</span> Lit <i>the goings out of it were</i><br><span class="fnverse">14</span> Lit <i>the goings out of it were</i><br><span class="fnverse">19</span> Lit <i>goings out of the border were</i><br></div><br /><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Legacy Standard Bible Copyright ©2021 by The Lockman Foundation<br>All rights reserved. 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