with their villages:
018:025 Gibeon, and Ramah, and Beeroth,
018:026 and Mizpeh, and Chephirah, and Mozah,
018:027 and Rekem, and Irpeel, and Taralah,
018:028 and Zelah, Eleph, and the Jebusite (the same is Jerusalem), Gibeath,
[and] Kiriath; fourteen cities with their villages.
This is the inheritance of the children of Benjamin according
to their families.
019:001 The second lot came out for Simeon, even for the tribe
of the children of Simeon according to their families:
and their inheritance was in the midst of the inheritance
of the children of Judah.
019:002 They had for their inheritance Beersheba, or Sheba, and Moladah,
019:003 and Hazar Shual, and Balah, and Ezem,
019:004 and Eltolad, and Bethul, and Hormah,
019:005 and Ziklag, and Beth Marcaboth, and Hazar Susah,
019:006 and Beth Lebaoth, and Sharuhen; thirteen cities with their villages:
019:007 Ain, Rimmon, and Ether, and Ashan; four cities with their villages:
019:008 and all the villages that were round about these cities to
Baalath Beer, Ramah of the South. This is the inheritance of
the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families.
019:009 Out of the part of the children of Judah was the inheritance
of the children of Simeon; for the portion of the children
of Judah was too much for them: therefore the children
of Simeon had inheritance in the midst of their inheritance.
019:010 The third lot came up for the children of Zebulun according
to their families; and the border of their inheritance
was to Sarid;
019:011 and their border went up westward, even to Maralah, and reached
to Dabbesheth; and it reached to the brook that is before Jokneam;
019:012 and it turned from Sarid eastward toward the sunrise to
the border of Chisloth Tabor; and it went out to Daberath,
and went up to Japhia;
019:013 and from there it passed along eastward to Gath Hepher, to Ethkazin;
and it went out at Rimmon which stretches to Neah;
019:014 and the border turned about it on the north to Hannathon;
and the goings out of it were at the valley of Iphtah El;
019:015 and Kattath, and Nahalal, and Shimron, and Idalah, and Bethlehem:
twelve cities with their villages.
019:016 This is the inheritance of the children of Zebulun according
to their families, these cities with their villages.
019:017 The fourth lot came out for Issachar, even for the children
of Issachar according to their families.
019:018 Their border was to Jezreel, and Chesulloth, and Shunem,
019:019 and Hapharaim, and Shion, and Anaharath,
019:020 and Rabbith, and Kishion, and Ebez,
019:021 and Remeth, and Engannim, and En Haddah, and Beth Pazzez,
019:022 and the border reached to Tabor, and Shahazumah, and Beth Shemesh;
and the goings out of their border were at the Jordan:
sixteen cities with their villages.
019:023 This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Issachar
according to their families, the cities with their villages.
019:024 The fifth lot came out for the tribe of the children of Asher
according to their families.
019:025 Their border was Helkath, and Hali, and Beten, and Achshaph,
019:026 and Allammelech, and Amad, and Mishal; and it reached to
Carmel westward, and to Shihorlibnath;
019:027 and it turned toward the sunrise to Beth Dagon, and reached
to Zebulun, and to the valley of Iphtah El northward to Beth Emek
and Neiel; and it went out to Cabul on the left hand,
019:028 and Ebron, and Rehob, and Hammon, and Kanah, even to great Sidon;
019:029 and the border turned to Ramah, and to the fortified city of Tyre;
and the border turned to Hosah; and the goings out of it
were at the sea by the region of Achzib;
019:030 Ummah also, and Aphek, and Rehob: twenty-two cities
with their villages.
019:031 This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Asher
according to their families, these cities with their villages.
019:032 The sixth lot came out for the children of Naphtali, even for
the children of Naphtali according to their families.
019:033 Their border was from Heleph, from the oak in Zaanannim,
and Adaminekeb, and Jabneel, to Lakkum; and the goings out
of it were at the Jordan;
019:034 and the border turned westward to Aznoth Tabor, and went out
from there to Hukkok; and it reached to Zebulun on the south,
and reached to Asher on the west, and to Judah at the Jordan
toward the sunrise.
019:035 The fortified cities were Ziddim, Zer, and Hammath, Rakkath,
and Chinnereth,
019:036 and Adamah, and Ramah, and Hazor,
019:037 and Kedesh, and Edrei, and En Hazor,
019:038 Iron, and Migdal El, Horem, and Beth Anath, and Beth Shemesh;
nineteen cities with their villages.
019:039 This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Naphtali
according to their families, the cities with their villages.
019:040 The seventh lot came out for the tribe of the children of Dan
according to their families.
019:041 The border of their inheritance was Zorah, and Eshtaol, and Irshemesh,
019:042 and Shaalabbin, and Aijalon, and Ithlah,
019:043 and Elon, and Timnah, and Ekron,
019:044 and Eltekeh, and Gibbethon, and Baalath,
019:045 and Jehud, and Bene Berak, and Gath Rimmon,
019:046 and Me Jarkon, and Rakkon, with the border over against Joppa.
019:047 The border of the children of Dan went out beyond them;
for the children of Dan went up and fought against Leshem,
and took it, and struck it with the edge of the sword,
and possessed it, and lived therein, and called Leshem, Dan,
after the name of Dan their father.
019:048 This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Dan
according to their families, these cities with their villages.
019:049 So they made an end of distributing the land for inheritance
by the borders of it; and the children of Israel gave an
inheritance to Joshua the son of Nun in the midst of them:
019:050 according to the commandment of Yahweh they gave him the city
which he asked, even Timnathserah in the hill country of Ephraim;
and he built the city, and lived therein.
019:051 These are the inheritances, 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 for inheritance by lot
in Shiloh before Yahweh, at the door of the tent of meeting.
So they made an end of dividing the land.
020:001 Yahweh spoke to Joshua, saying,
020:002 Speak to the children of Israel, saying, Assign you the cities
of refuge, of which I spoke to you by Moses,
020:003 that the manslayer who kills any person unwittingly [and]
unawares may flee there: and they shall be to you for a refuge
from the avenger of blood.
020:004 He shall flee to one of those cities, and shall stand at
the entrance of the gate of the city, and declare his cause
in the ears of the elders of that city; and they shall
take him into the city to them, and give him a place,
that he may dwell among them.
020:005 If the avenger of blood pursue after him, then they shall
not deliver up the manslayer into his hand; because he struck
his neighbor unawares, and didn't hate him before.
020:006 He shall dwell in that city, until he stand before the
congregation for judgment, until the death of the high priest
that shall be in those days: then shall the manslayer return,
and come to his own city, and to his own house, to the city
from whence he fled.
020:007 They set apart Kedesh in Galilee in the hill country of Naphtali,
and Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and Kiriath Arba
(the same is Hebron) in the hill country of Judah.
020:008 Beyond the Jordan at Jericho eastward, they assigned Bezer
in the wilderness in the plain out of the tribe of Reuben,
and Ramoth in Gilead out of the tribe of Gad, and Golan
in Bashan out of the tribe of Manasseh.
020:009 These were the appointed cities for all the children
of Israel, and for the stranger who sojourns among them,
that whoever kills any person unwittingly might flee there,
and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, until he stood
before the congregation.
021:001 Then came near the heads of fathers' [houses] of the Levites
to Eleazar the priest, and to Joshua the son of Nun,
and to the heads of fathers' [houses] of the tribes of
the children of Israel;
021:002 and they spoke to them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan,
saying, Yahweh commanded Moses to give us cities to dwell in,
with the suburbs of it for our livestock.
021:003 The children of Israel gave to the Levites out of their inheritance,
according to the commandment of Yahweh, these cities
with their suburbs.
021:004 The lot came out for the families of the Kohathites:
and the children of Aaron the priest, who were of the Levites,
had by lot out of the tribe of Judah, and out of the tribe of
the Simeonites, and out of the tribe of Benjamin, thirteen cities.
021:005 The rest of the children of Kohath had by lot out of the families
of the tribe of Ephraim, and out of the tribe of Dan,
and out of the half-tribe of Manasseh, ten cities.
021:006 The children of Gershon had by lot out of the families
of the tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Asher,
and out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the half-tribe
of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen cities.
021:007 The children of Merari according to their families had
out of the tribe of Reuben, and out of the tribe of Gad,
and out of the tribe of Zebulun, twelve cities.
021:008 The children of Israel gave by lot to the Levites these cities
with their suburbs, as Yahweh commanded by Moses.
021:009 They gave out of the tribe of the children of Judah,
and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, these cities
which are [here] mentioned by name:
021:010 and they were for the children of Aaron, of the families
of the Kohathites, who were of the children of Levi;
for theirs was the first lot.
021:011 They gave them Kiriath Arba, [which Arba was] the father of Anak
(the same is Hebron), in the hill country of Judah,
with the suburbs of it round about it.
021:012 But the fields of the city, and the villages of it, gave they
to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for his possession.
021:013 To the children of Aaron the priest they gave Hebron
with its suburbs, the city of refuge for the manslayer,
and Libnah with its suburbs,
021:014 and Jattir with its suburbs, and Eshtemoa with its suburbs,
021:015 and Holon with its suburbs, and Debir with its suburbs,
021:016 and Ain with its suburbs, and Juttah with its suburbs,
[and] Beth Shemesh with its suburbs; nine cities out of
those two tribes.
021:017 Out of the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon with its suburbs,
Geba with its suburbs,
021:018 Anathoth with its suburbs, and Almon with its suburbs; four cities.
021:019 All the cities of the children of Aaron, the priests,
were thirteen cities with their suburbs.
021:020 The families of the children of Kohath, the Levites,
even the rest of the children of Kohath, they had the cities
of their lot out of the tribe of Ephraim.
021:021 They gave them Shechem with its suburbs in the hill country
of Ephraim, the city of refuge for the manslayer, and Gezer
with its suburbs,
021:022 and Kibzaim with its suburbs, and Beth Horon with its suburbs;
four cities.
021:023 Out of the tribe of Dan, Elteke with its suburbs,
Gibbethon with its suburbs,
021:024 Aijalon with its suburbs, Gath Rimmon with its suburbs; four cities.
021:025 Out of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Taanach with its suburbs,
and Gath Rimmon with its suburbs; two cities.
021:026 All the cities of the families of the rest of the children
of Kohath were ten with their suburbs.
021:027 To the children of Gershon, of the families of the Levites,
out of the half-tribe of Manasseh [they gave] Golan in Bashan
with its suburbs, the city of refuge for the manslayer,
and Be Eshterah with its suburbs; two cities.
021:028 Out of the tribe of Issachar, Kishion with its suburbs,
Daberath with its suburbs,
021:029 Jarmuth with its suburbs, En Gannim with its suburbs; four cities.
021:030 Out of the tribe of Asher, Mishal with its suburbs,
Abdon with its suburbs,
021:031 Helkath with its suburbs, and Rehob with its suburbs; four cities.
021:032 Out of the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee with its suburbs,
the city of refuge for the manslayer, and Hammothdor with
its suburbs, and Kartan with its suburbs; three cities.
021:033 All the cities of the Gershonites according to their families
were thirteen cities with their suburbs.
021:034 To the families of the children of Merari, the rest of the Levites,
out of the tribe of Zebulun, Jokneam with its suburbs,
and Kartah with its suburbs,
021:035 Dimnah with its suburbs, Nahalal with its suburbs; four cities.
021:036 Out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer with its suburbs, and Jahaz
with its suburbs,
021:037 Kedemoth with its suburbs, and Mephaath with its suburbs;
four cities.
021:038 Out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead with its suburbs,
the city of refuge for the manslayer, and Mahanaim with its suburbs,
021:039 Heshbon with its suburbs, Jazer with its suburbs;
four cities in all.
021:040 All [these were] the cities of the children of Merari according
to their families, even the rest of the families of the Levites;
and their lot was twelve cities.
021:041 All the cities of the Levites in the midst of the possession
of the children of Israel were forty-eight cities
with their suburbs.
021:042 These cities were every one with their suburbs round about them:
thus it was with all these cities.
021:043 So Yahweh gave to Israel all the land which he swore to give
to their fathers; and they possessed it, and lived therein.
021:044 Yahweh gave them rest round about, according to all that he swore
to their fathers: and there stood not a man of all their
enemies before them; Yahweh delivered all their enemies
into their hand.
021:045 There failed not anything of any good thing which Yahweh had
spoken to the house of Israel; all came to pass.
022:001 Then Joshua called the Reubenites, and the Gadites,
and the half-tribe of Manasseh,
022:002 and said to them, You have kept all that Moses the servant
of Yahweh commanded you, and have listened to my voice in all
that I commanded you:
022:003 you have not left your brothers these many days to this day,
but have kept the charge of the commandment of Yahweh your God.
022:004 Now Yahweh your God has given rest to your brothers, as he spoke
to them: therefore now turn you, and get you to your tents,
to the land of your possession, which Moses the servant
of Yahweh gave you beyond the Jordan.
022:005 Only take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law which Moses
the servant of Yahweh commanded you, to love Yahweh your God,
and to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments,
and to cleave to him, and to serve him with all your heart
and with all your soul.
022:006 So Joshua blessed them, and sent them away; and they went
to their tents.
022:007 Now to the one half-tribe of Manasseh Moses had given
[inheritance] in Bashan; but to the other half gave
Joshua among their brothers beyond the Jordan westward;
moreover when Joshua sent them away to their tents,
he blessed them,
022:008 and spoke to them, saying, Return with much wealth to your tents,
and with very much livestock, with silver, and with gold,
and with brass, and with iron, and with very much clothing:
divide the spoil of your enemies with your brothers.
022:009 The children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe
of Manasseh returned, and departed from the children of Israel
out of Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan, to go to the land
of Gilead, to the land of their possession, which they owned,
according to the commandment of Yahweh by Moses.
022:010 When they came to the region about the Jordan, that is in the land
of Canaan, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and
the half-tribe of Manasseh built there an altar by the Jordan,
a great altar to look on.
022:011 The children of Israel heard say, Behold, the children of Reuben
and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh
have built an altar in the forefront of the land of Canaan,
in the region about the Jordan, on the side that pertains
to the children of Israel.
022:012 When the children of Israel heard of it, the whole congregation
of the children of Israel gathered themselves together at Shiloh,
to go up against them to war.
022:013 The children of Israel sent to the children of Reuben,
and to the children of Gad, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh,
into the land of Gilead, Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest,
022:014 and with him ten princes, one prince of a fathers' house for
each of the tribes of Israel; and they were everyone of them
head of their fathers' houses among the thousands of Israel.
022:015 They came to the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad,
and to the half-tribe of Manasseh, to the land of Gilead,
and they spoke with them, saying,
022:016 Thus says the whole congregation of Yahweh, What trespass
is this that you have committed against the God of Israel,
to turn away this day from following Yahweh, in that you
have built you an altar, to rebel this day against Yahweh?
022:017 Is the iniquity of Peor too little for us, from which we
have not cleansed ourselves to this day, although there came
a plague on the congregation of Yahweh,
022:018 that you must turn away this day from following Yahweh? and it
will be, seeing you rebel today against Yahweh, that tomorrow
he will be angry with the whole congregation of Israel.
022:019 However, if the land of your possession be unclean,
then pass over to the land of the possession of Yahweh,
in which Yahweh's tent dwells, and take possession among us:
but don't rebel against Yahweh, nor rebel against us,
in building you an altar besides the altar of Yahweh our God.
022:020 Didn't Achan the son of Zerah commit a trespass in the devoted thing,
and wrath fell on all the congregation of Israel? and that man
didn't perish alone in his iniquity.
022:021 Then the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and
the half-tribe of Manasseh answered, and spoke to the heads
of the thousands of Israel,
022:022 The Mighty One, God, Yahweh, the Mighty One, God, Yahweh, he knows;
and Israel he shall know: if it be in rebellion, or if in
trespass against Yahweh (don't save us this day),
022:023 that we have built us an altar to turn away from following Yahweh;
or if to offer thereon burnt offering or meal offering,
or if to offer sacrifices of peace offerings thereon,
let Yahweh himself require it;
022:024 and if we have not [rather] out of carefulness done this,
[and] of purpose, saying, In time to come your children might
speak to our children, saying, What have you to do with Yahweh,
the God of Israel?
022:025 for Yahweh has made the Jordan a border between us and you,
you children of Reuben and children of Gad; you have no portion
in Yahweh: so might your children make our children cease
from fearing Yahweh.
022:026 Therefore we said, Let us now prepare to build us an altar,
not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice:
022:027 but it shall be a witness between us and you, and between our
generations after us, that we may do the service of Yahweh
before him with our burnt offerings, and with our sacrifices,
and with our peace offerings; that your children may not tell
our children in time to come, You have no portion in Yahweh.
022:028 Therefore said we, It shall be, when they so tell us
or to our generations in time to come, that we shall say,
Behold the pattern of the altar of Yahweh, which our
fathers made, not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice;
but it is a witness between us and you.
022:029 Far be it from us that we should rebel against Yahweh,
and turn away this day from following Yahweh, to build an altar
for burnt offering, for meal offering, or for sacrifice,
besides the altar of Yahweh our God that is before his tent.
022:030 When Phinehas the priest, and the princes of the congregation,
even the heads of the thousands of Israel that were with him,
heard the words that the children of Reuben and the children
of Gad and the children of Manasseh spoke, it pleased them well.
022:031 Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest said to the children
of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the children
of Manasseh, This day we know that Yahweh is in the midst of us,
because you have not committed this trespass against Yahweh:
now have you delivered the children of Israel out of the
hand of Yahweh.
022:032 Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, and the princes,
returned from the children of Reuben, and from the children
of Gad, out of the land of Gilead, to the land of Canaan,
to the children of Israel, and brought them word again.
022:033 The thing pleased the children of Israel; and the children of
Israel blessed God, and spoke no more of going up against them
to war, to destroy the land in which the children of Reuben
and the children of Gad lived.
022:034 The children of Reuben and the children of Gad called
the altar [Ed]: For, [said they], it is a witness between us
that Yahweh is God.
023:001 It happened after many days, when Yahweh had given rest
to Israel from all their enemies round about, and Joshua
was old and well stricken in years;
023:002 that Joshua called for all Israel, for their elders and for
their heads, and for their judges and for their officers,
and said to them, I am old and well stricken in years:
023:003 and you have seen all that Yahweh your God has done to all
these nations because of you; for Yahweh your God, he it
is that has fought for you.
023:004 Behold, I have allotted to you these nations that remain,
to be an inheritance for your tribes, from the Jordan,
with all the nations that I have cut off, even to the great
sea toward the going down of the sun.
023:005 Yahweh your God, he will thrust them out from before you,
and drive them from out of your sight; and you shall possess
their land, as Yahweh your God spoke to you.
023:006 Therefore be you very courageous to keep and to do all that is
written in the book of the law of Moses, that you not turn
aside from it to the right hand or to the left;
023:007 that you not come among these nations, these that remain
among you; neither make mention of the name of their gods,
nor cause to swear [by them], neither serve them, nor bow
down yourselves to them;
023:008 but cleave to Yahweh your God, as you have done to this day.
023:009 For Yahweh has driven out from before you great nations and strong:
but as for you, no man has stood before you to this day.
023:010 One man of you shall chase a thousand; for Yahweh your God,
he it is who fights for you, as he spoke to you.
023:011 Take good heed therefore to yourselves, that you love
Yahweh your God.
023:012 Else if you do at all go back, and cleave to the remnant
of these nations, even these who remain among you, and make
marriages with them, and go in to them, and they to you;
023:013 know for a certainty that Yahweh your God will no more drive
these nations from out of your sight; but they shall be
a snare and a trap to you, and a scourge in your sides,
and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this
good land which Yahweh your God has given you.
023:014 Behold, this day I am going the way of all the earth:
and you know in all your hearts and in all your souls,
that not one thing has failed of all the good things which
Yahweh your God spoke concerning you; all are happen to you,
not one thing has failed of it.
023:015 It shall happen, that as all the good things are come on you
of which Yahweh your God spoke to you, so will Yahweh bring
on you all the evil things, until he have destroyed you from
off this good land which Yahweh your God has given you.
023:016 When you disobey the covenant of Yahweh your God,
which he commanded you, and go and serve other gods,
and bow down yourselves to them; then will the anger of Yahweh
be kindled against you, and you shall perish quickly from off
the good land which he has given to you.
024:001 Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem,
and called for the elders of Israel, and for their heads,
and for their judges, and for their officers; and they
presented themselves before God.
024:002 Joshua said to all the people, Thus says Yahweh, the God
of Israel, Your fathers lived of old time beyond the River,
even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nahor:
and they served other gods.
024:003 I took your father Abraham from beyond the River, and led him