of Israel struck beyond the Jordan westward, from Baal Gad in
the valley of Lebanon even to Mount Halak, that goes up to Seir;
and Joshua gave it to the tribes of Israel for a possession
according to their divisions;
012:008 in the hill country, and in the lowland, and in the Arabah,
and in the slopes, and in the wilderness, and in the South;
the Hittite, the Amorite, and the Canaanite, the Perizzite,
the Hivite, and the Jebusite:
012:009 the king of Jericho, one; the king of Ai, which is beside Bethel, one;
012:010 the king of Jerusalem, one; the king of Hebron, one;
012:011 the king of Jarmuth, one; the king of Lachish, one;
012:012 the king of Eglon, one; the king of Gezer, one;
012:013 the king of Debir, one; the king of Geder, one;
012:014 the king of Hormah, one; the king of Arad, one;
012:015 the king of Libnah, one; the king of Adullam, one;
012:016 the king of Makkedah, one; the king of Bethel, one;
012:017 the king of Tappuah, one; the king of Hepher, one;
012:018 the king of Aphek, one; the king of Lassharon, one;
012:019 the king of Madon, one; the king of Hazor, one;
012:020 the king of Shimron Meron, one; the king of Achshaph, one;
012:021 the king of Taanach, one; the king of Megiddo, one;
012:022 the king of Kedesh, one; the king of Jokneam in Carmel, one;
012:023 the king of Dor in the height of Dor, one; the king of Goiim
in Gilgal, one;
012:024 the king of Tirzah, one: all the kings thirty-one.
013:001 Now Joshua was old and well stricken in years; and Yahweh said
to him, You are old and well stricken in years, and there
remains yet very much land to be possessed.
013:002 This is the land that yet remains: all the regions of
the Philistines, and all the Geshurites;
013:003 from the Shihor, which is before Egypt, even to the border
of Ekron northward, [which] is reckoned to the Canaanites;
the five lords of the Philistines; the Gazites, and the Ashdodites,
the Ashkelonites, the Gittites, and the Ekronites;
also the Avvim,
013:004 on the south; all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah
that belongs to the Sidonians, to Aphek, to the border
of the Amorites;
013:005 and the land of the Gebalites, and all Lebanon, toward the sunrise,
from Baal Gad under Mount Hermon to the entrance of Hamath;
013:006 all the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon to
Misrephoth Maim, even all the Sidonians; them will I drive
out from before the children of Israel: only allot you it
to Israel for an inheritance, as I have commanded you.
013:007 Now therefore divide this land for an inheritance to the nine tribes,
and the half-tribe of Manasseh.
013:008 With him the Reubenites and the Gadites received their inheritance,
which Moses gave them, beyond the Jordan eastward, even as Moses
the servant of Yahweh gave them:
013:009 from Aroer, that is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon,
and the city that is in the middle of the valley, and all
the plain of Medeba to Dibon;
013:010 and all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned
in Heshbon, to the border of the children of Ammon;
013:011 and Gilead, and the border of the Geshurites and Maacathites,
and all Mount Hermon, and all Bashan to Salecah;
013:012 all the kingdom of Og in Bashan, who reigned in Ashtaroth
and in Edrei (the same was left of the remnant of the Rephaim);
for these did Moses strike, and drove them out.
013:013 Nevertheless the children of Israel didn't drive out the Geshurites,
nor the Maacathites: but Geshur and Maacath dwell in the midst
of Israel to this day.
013:014 Only to the tribe of Levi he gave no inheritance; the offerings
of Yahweh, the God of Israel, made by fire are his inheritance,
as he spoke to him.
013:015 Moses gave to the tribe of the children of Reuben according
to their families.
013:016 Their border was from Aroer, that is on the edge of the valley
of the Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the valley,
and all the plain by Medeba;
013:017 Heshbon, and all its cities that are in the plain; Dibon,
and Bamoth Baal, and Beth Baal Meon,
013:018 and Jahaz, and Kedemoth, and Mephaath,
013:019 and Kiriathaim, and Sibmah, and Zereth Shahar in the mount
of the valley,
013:020 and Beth Peor, and the slopes of Pisgah, and Beth Jeshimoth,
013:021 and all the cities of the plain, and all the kingdom of Sihon
king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, whom Moses struck
with the chiefs of Midian, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur,
and Reba, the princes of Sihon, who lived in the land.
013:022 Balaam also the son of Beor, the soothsayer, did the children
of Israel kill with the sword among the rest of their slain.
013:023 The border of the children of Reuben was the Jordan, and the border
[of it]. This was the inheritance of the children of Reuben
according to their families, the cities and the villages of it.
013:024 Moses gave to the tribe of Gad, to the children of Gad,
according to their families.
013:025 Their border was Jazer, and all the cities of Gilead,
and half the land of the children of Ammon, to Aroer that
is before Rabbah;
013:026 and from Heshbon to Ramath Mizpeh, and Betonim; and from Mahanaim
to the border of Debir;
013:027 and in the valley, Beth Haram, and Beth Nimrah, and Succoth,
and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon,
the Jordan and the border [of it], to the uttermost part
of the sea of Chinnereth beyond the Jordan eastward.
013:028 This is the inheritance of the children of Gad according
to their families, the cities and the villages of it.
013:029 Moses gave [inheritance] to the half-tribe of Manasseh:
and it was for the half-tribe of the children of Manasseh
according to their families.
013:030 Their border was from Mahanaim, all Bashan, all the kingdom
of Og king of Bashan, and all the towns of Jair, which are
in Bashan, sixty cities:
013:031 and half Gilead, and Ashtaroth, and Edrei, the cities of
the kingdom of Og in Bashan, were for the children of Machir
the son of Manasseh, even for the half of the children
of Machir according to their families.
013:032 These are the inheritances which Moses distributed in the plains
of Moab, beyond the Jordan at Jericho, eastward.
013:033 But to the tribe of Levi Moses gave no inheritance: Yahweh, the God
of Israel, is their inheritance, as he spoke to them.
014:001 These are the inheritances which the children of Israel
took in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest,
and Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers'
[houses] of the tribes of the children of Israel,
distributed to them,
014:002 by the lot of their inheritance, as Yahweh commanded by Moses,
for the nine tribes, and for the half-tribe.
014:003 For Moses had given the inheritance of the two tribes and
the half-tribe beyond the Jordan: but to the Levites he gave
no inheritance among them.
014:004 For the children of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim:
and they gave no portion to the Levites in the land,
save cities to dwell in, with the suburbs of it for their
livestock and for their substance.
014:005 As Yahweh commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did;
and they divided the land.
014:006 Then the children of Judah drew near to Joshua in Gilgal:
and Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him,
You know the thing that Yahweh spoke to Moses the man of God
concerning me and concerning you in Kadesh Barnea.
014:007 Forty years old was I when Moses the servant of Yahweh sent
me from Kadesh Barnea to spy out the land; and I brought him
word again as it was in my heart.
014:008 Nevertheless my brothers who went up with me made the heart
of the people melt; but I wholly followed Yahweh my God.
014:009 Moses swore on that day, saying, Surely the land whereon
your foot has trodden shall be an inheritance to you and
to your children forever, because you have wholly followed
Yahweh my God.
014:010 Now, behold, Yahweh has kept me alive, as he spoke,
these forty-five years, from the time that Yahweh spoke
this word to Moses, while Israel walked in the wilderness:
and now, behold, I am this day eighty-five years old.
014:011 As yet I am as strong this day as I as in the day that Moses sent me:
as my strength was then, even so is my strength now, for war,
and to go out and to come in.
014:012 Now therefore give me this hill country, of which Yahweh spoke
in that day; for you heard in that day how the Anakim were there,
and cities great and fortified: it may be that Yahweh will
be with me, and I shall drive them out, as Yahweh spoke.
014:013 Joshua blessed him; and he gave Hebron to Caleb the son
of Jephunneh for an inheritance.
014:014 Therefore Hebron became the inheritance of Caleb the son
of Jephunneh the Kenizzite to this day; because that he wholly
followed Yahweh, the God of Israel.
014:015 Now the name of Hebron before was Kiriath Arba;
[which Arba was] the greatest man among the Anakim.
The land had rest from war.
015:001 The lot for the tribe of the children of Judah according to their
families was to the border of Edom, even to the wilderness
of Zin southward, at the uttermost part of the south.
015:002 Their south border was from the uttermost part of the Salt Sea,
from the bay that looks southward;
015:003 and it went out southward of the ascent of Akrabbim, and passed
along to Zin, and went up by the south of Kadesh Barnea,
and passed along by Hezron, and went up to Addar, and turned
about to Karka;
015:004 and it passed along to Azmon, and went out at the brook
of Egypt; and the goings out of the border were at the sea:
this shall be your south border.
015:005 The east border was the Salt Sea, even to the end of the Jordan.
The border of the north quarter was from the bay of the sea
at the end of the Jordan;
015:006 and the border went up to Beth Hoglah, and passed along by
the north of Beth Arabah; and the border went up to the stone
of Bohan the son of Reuben;
015:007 and the border went up to Debir from the valley of Achor,
and so northward, looking toward Gilgal, that is over against
the ascent of Adummim, which is on the south side of the river;
and the border passed along to the waters of En Shemesh,
and the goings out of it were at En Rogel;
015:008 and the border went up by the valley of the son of Hinnom
to the side of the Jebusite southward (the same is Jerusalem);
and the border went up to the top of the mountain that lies
before the valley of Hinnom westward, which is at the uttermost
part of the valley of Rephaim northward;
015:009 and the border extended from the top of the mountain
to the spring of the waters of Nephtoah, and went out to
the cities of Mount Ephron; and the border extended to Baalah
(the same is Kiriath Jearim);
015:010 and the border turned about from Baalah westward to Mount Seir,
and passed along to the side of Mount Jearim on the north
(the same is Chesalon), and went down to Beth Shemesh,
and passed along by Timnah;
015:011 and the border went out to the side of Ekron northward;
and the border extended to Shikkeron, and passed along
to Mount Baalah, and went out at Jabneel; and the goings
out of the border were at the sea.
015:012 The west border was to the great sea, and the border [of it].
This is the border of the children of Judah round about
according to their families.
015:013 To Caleb the son of Jephunneh he gave a portion among the children
of Judah, according to the commandment of Yahweh to Joshua,
even Kiriath Arba, [which Arba was] the father of Anak
(the same is Hebron).
015:014 Caleb drove out there the three sons of Anak: Sheshai, and Ahiman,
and Talmai, the children of Anak.
015:015 He went up there against the inhabitants of Debir:
now the name of Debir before was Kiriath Sepher.
015:016 Caleb said, He who strikes Kiriath Sepher, and takes it,
to him will I give Achsah my daughter as wife.
015:017 Othniel the son of Kenaz, the brother of Caleb, took it:
and he gave him Achsah his daughter as wife.
015:018 It happened, when she came [to him], that she moved him to ask
of her father a field: and she alighted from off her donkey;
and Caleb said, What would you?
015:019 She said, Give me a blessing; for that you have set me
in the land of the South, give me also springs of water.
He gave her the upper springs and the lower springs.
015:020 This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Judah
according to their families.
015:021 The uttermost cities of the tribe of the children of Judah
toward the border of Edom in the South were Kabzeel,
and Eder, and Jagur,
015:022 and Kinah, and Dimonah, and Adadah,
015:023 and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Ithnan,
015:024 Ziph, and Telem, and Bealoth,
015:025 Hazor Hadattah, Kerioth, Hezron (the same is Hazor),
015:026 Amam, and Shema, and Moladah,
015:027 and Hazar Gaddah, and Heshmon, and Beth Pelet,
015:028 and Hazar Shual, and Beersheba, and Biziothiah,
015:029 Baalah, and Iim, and Ezem,
015:030 and Eltolad, and Chesil, and Hormah,
015:031 and Ziklag, and Madmannah, and Sansannah,
015:032 and Lebaoth, and Shilhim, and Ain, and Rimmon: all the cities
are twenty-nine, with their villages.
015:033 In the lowland, Eshtaol, and Zorah, and Ashnah,
015:034 and Zanoah, and En Gannim, Tappuah, and Enam,
015:035 Jarmuth, and Adullam, Socoh, and Azekah,
015:036 and Shaaraim, and Adithaim, and Gederah, and Gederothaim;
fourteen cities with their villages.
015:037 Zenan, and Hadashah, and Migdal Gad,
015:038 and Dilean, and Mizpeh, and Joktheel,
015:039 Lachish, and Bozkath, and Eglon,
015:040 and Cabbon, and Lahmam, and Chitlish,
015:041 and Gederoth, Beth Dagon, and Naamah, and Makkedah;
sixteen cities with their villages.
015:042 Libnah, and Ether, and Ashan,
015:043 and Iphtah, and Ashnah, and Nezib,
015:044 and Keilah, and Achzib, and Mareshah; nine cities
with their villages.
015:045 Ekron, with its towns and its villages;
015:046 from Ekron even to the sea, all that were by the side of Ashdod,
with their villages.
015:047 Ashdod, its towns and its villages; Gaza, its towns and
its villages; to the brook of Egypt, and the great sea,
and the border [of it].
015:048 In the hill country, Shamir, and Jattir, and Socoh,
015:049 and Dannah, and Kiriath Sannah (the same is Debir),
015:050 and Anab, and Eshtemoh, and Anim,
015:051 and Goshen, and Holon, and Giloh; eleven cities with their villages.
015:052 Arab, and Dumah, and Eshan,
015:053 and Janim, and Beth Tappuah, and Aphekah,
015:054 and Humtah, and Kiriath Arba (the same is Hebron), and Zior;
nine cities with their villages.
015:055 Maon, Carmel, and Ziph, and Jutah,
015:056 and Jezreel, and Jokdeam, and Zanoah,
015:057 Kain, Gibeah, and Timnah; ten cities with their villages.
015:058 Halhul, Beth Zur, and Gedor,
015:059 and Maarath, and Beth Anoth, and Eltekon; six cities
with their villages.
015:060 Kiriath Baal (the same is Kiriath Jearim), and Rabbah;
two cities with their villages.
015:061 In the wilderness, Beth Arabah, Middin, and Secacah,
015:062 and Nibshan, and the City of Salt, and En Gedi; six cities
with their villages.
015:063 As for the Jebusites, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the children
of Judah couldn't drive them out: but the Jebusites dwell
with the children of Judah at Jerusalem to this day.
016:001 The lot came out for the children of Joseph from the Jordan
at Jericho, at the waters of Jericho on the east,
even the wilderness, going up from Jericho through the hill
country to Bethel;
016:002 and it went out from Bethel to Luz, and passed along to the border
of the Archites to Ataroth;
016:003 and it went down westward to the border of the Japhletites,
to the border of Beth Horon the lower, even to Gezer;
and the goings out of it were at the sea.
016:004 The children of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, took their inheritance.
016:005 The border of the children of Ephraim according to their
families was [thus]: the border of their inheritance eastward
was Ataroth Addar, to Beth Horon the upper;
016:006 and the border went out westward at Michmethath on the north;
and the border turned about eastward to Taanath Shiloh,
and passed along it on the east of Janoah;
016:007 and it went down from Janoah to Ataroth, and to Naarah,
and reached to Jericho, and went out at the Jordan.
016:008 From Tappuah the border went along westward to the brook
of Kanah; and the goings out of it were at the sea.
This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Ephraim
according to their families;
016:009 together with the cities which were set apart for the children
of Ephraim in the midst of the inheritance of the children
of Manasseh, all the cities with their villages.
016:010 They didn't drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer:
but the Canaanites dwell in the midst of Ephraim to this day,
and are become servants to do forced labor.
017:001 [This] was the lot for the tribe of Manasseh; for he was
the firstborn of Joseph. As for Machir the firstborn
of Manasseh, the father of Gilead, because he was a man of war,
therefore he had Gilead and Bashan.
017:002 So [the lot] was for the rest of the children of Manasseh
according to their families: for the children of Abiezer,
and for the children of Helek, and for the children of Asriel,
and for the children of Shechem, and for the children of Hepher,
and for the children of Shemida: these were the male children
of Manasseh the son of Joseph according to their families.
017:003 But Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead,
the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, had no sons,
but daughters: and these are the names of his daughters:
Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.
017:004 They came near before Eleazar the priest, and before Joshua
the son of Nun, and before the princes, saying, Yahweh commanded
Moses to give us an inheritance among our brothers:
therefore according to the commandment of Yahweh he gave them
an inheritance among the brothers of their father.
017:005 There fell ten parts to Manasseh, besides the land of Gilead
and Bashan, which is beyond the Jordan;
017:006 because the daughters of Manasseh had an inheritance among his sons.
The land of Gilead belonged to the rest of the sons of Manasseh.
017:007 The border of Manasseh was from Asher to Michmethath, which is
before Shechem; and the border went along to the right hand,
to the inhabitants of En Tappuah.
017:008 The land of Tappuah belonged to Manasseh; but Tappuah on
the border of Manasseh belonged to the children of Ephraim.
017:009 The border went down to the brook of Kanah, southward of the brook:
these cities belonged to Ephraim among the cities of Manasseh:
and the border of Manasseh was on the north side of the brook,
and the goings out of it were at the sea:
017:010 southward it was Ephraim's, and northward it was Manasseh's,
and the sea was his border; and they reached to Asher on the north,
and to Issachar on the east.
017:011 Manasseh had in Issachar and in Asher Beth Shean and its towns,
and Ibleam and its towns, and the inhabitants of Dor
and its towns, and the inhabitants of Endor and its towns,
and the inhabitants of Taanach and its towns, and the inhabitants
of Megiddo and its towns, even the three heights.
017:012 Yet the children of Manasseh couldn't drive out [the inhabitants
of] those cities; but the Canaanites would dwell in that land.
017:013 It happened, when the children of Israel had grown strong,
that they put the Canaanites to forced labor, and didn't
utterly drive them out.
017:014 The children of Joseph spoke to Joshua, saying, Why have you
given me but one lot and one part for an inheritance, seeing I
am a great people, because hitherto Yahweh has blessed me?
017:015 Joshua said to them, If you are a great people, go up to the forest,
and cut down for yourself there in the land of the Perizzites
and of the Rephaim; since the hill country of Ephraim is too
narrow for you.
017:016 The children of Joseph said, The hill country is not enough for us:
and all the Canaanites who dwell in the land of the valley have
chariots of iron, both they who are in Beth Shean and its towns,
and they who are in the valley of Jezreel.
017:017 Joshua spoke to the house of Joseph, even to Ephraim and
to Manasseh, saying, You are a great people, and have great power;
you shall not have one lot only:
017:018 but the hill country shall be yours; for though it is a forest,
you shall cut it down, and the goings out of it shall be yours;
for you shall drive out the Canaanites, though they have
chariots of iron, and though they are strong.
018:001 The whole congregation of the children of Israel assembled themselves
together at Shiloh, and set up the tent of meeting there:
and the land was subdued before them.
018:002 There remained among the children of Israel seven tribes,
which had not yet divided their inheritance.
018:003 Joshua said to the children of Israel, How long are you slack to go
in to possess the land, which Yahweh, the God of your fathers,
has given you?
018:004 Appoint for you three men of each tribe: and I will send them,
and they shall arise, and walk through the land, and describe
it according to their inheritance; and they shall come to me.
018:005 They shall divide it into seven portions: Judah shall abide
in his border on the south, and the house of Joseph shall
abide in their border on the north.
018:006 You shall describe the land into seven portions, and bring
[the description] here to me; and I will cast lots for you
here before Yahweh our God.
018:007 For the Levites have no portion among you; for the priesthood
of Yahweh is their inheritance: and Gad and Reuben and
the half-tribe of Manasseh have received their inheritance
beyond the Jordan eastward, which Moses the servant of
Yahweh gave them.
018:008 The men arose, and went: and Joshua charged those who went
to describe the land, saying, Go and walk through the land,
and describe it, and come again to me; and I will cast lots
for you here before Yahweh in Shiloh.
018:009 The men went and passed through the land, and described it
by cities into seven portions in a book; and they came
to Joshua to the camp at Shiloh.
018:010 Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before Yahweh:
and there Joshua divided the land to the children of Israel
according to their divisions.
018:011 The lot of the tribe of the children of Benjamin came up
according to their families: and the border of their lot went
out between the children of Judah and the children of Joseph.
018:012 Their border on the north quarter was from the Jordan;
and the border went up to the side of Jericho on the north,
and went up through the hill country westward; and the goings
out of it were at the wilderness of Beth Aven.
018:013 The border passed along from there to Luz, to the side of Luz
(the same is Bethel), southward; and the border went down
to Ataroth Addar, by the mountain that lies on the south
of Beth Horon the lower.
018:014 The border extended [there], and turned about on the west
quarter southward, from the mountain that lies before
Beth Horon southward; and the goings out of it were at Kiriath Baal
(the same is Kiriath Jearim), a city of the children of Judah:
this was the west quarter.
018:015 The south quarter was from the uttermost part of Kiriath Jearim;
and the border went out westward, and went out to the spring
of the waters of Nephtoah;
018:016 and the border went down to the uttermost part of the mountain
that lies before the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is
in the valley of Rephaim northward; and it went down to
the valley of Hinnom, to the side of the Jebusite southward,
and went down to En Rogel;
018:017 and it extended northward, and went out at En Shemesh, and went
out to Geliloth, which is over against the ascent of Adummim;
and it went down to the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben;
018:018 and it passed along to the side over against the Arabah northward,
and went down to the Arabah;
018:019 and the border passed along to the side of Beth Hoglah northward;
and the goings out of the border were at the north
bay of the Salt Sea, at the south end of the Jordan:
this was the south border.
018:020 The Jordan was the border of it on the east quarter.
This was the inheritance of the children of Benjamin,
by the borders of it round about, according to their families.
018:021 Now the cities of the tribe of the children of Benjamin
according to their families were Jericho, and Beth Hoglah,
and Emek Keziz,
018:022 and Beth Arabah, and Zemaraim, and Bethel,
018:023 and Avvim, and Parah, and Ophrah,