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towns, and
they
who
are
of the valley of Jezreel.
17
And Joshua spake unto the house of Joseph,
even
to Ephraim and to Manasseh, saying, Thou
art
a great people, and hast great power: thou shalt
not have one lot
only:
18
But the mountain shall be thine; for it
is
a wood, and thou shalt cut it
down: and the outgoings of it shall be thine: for thou shalt drive out the Canaanites, though they
have iron chariots,
and
though they
be
strong.
CHAPTER 18
And the whole congregation of the children of Israel assembled together at Shiloh, and set up the
tabernacle of the congregation there. And the land was subdued before them.
2
And there remained
among the children of Israel seven tribes, which had not yet received their inheritance.
3
And Joshua
said unto the children of Israel, How long
are
ye slack to go to possess the land, which the L
ORD
God of your fathers hath given you?
4
Give out from among you three men for
each
tribe: and I
will send them, and they shall rise, and go through the land, and describe it according to the
inheritance of them; and they shall come
again
to me.
5
And they shall divide it into seven parts:
Judah shall abide in their coast on the south, and the house of Joseph shall abide in their coasts on
the north.
6
Ye shall therefore describe the land
into
seven parts, and bring
the description
hither
to me, that I may cast lots for you here before the L
ORD
our God.
7
But the Levites have no part
among you; for the priesthood of the L
ORD
is their inheritance: and Gad, and Reuben, and half the
tribe of Manasseh, have received their inheritance beyond Jordan on the east, which Moses the
servant of the L
ORD
gave them.
8
And the men arose, and went away: and Joshua charged them that went to describe the land,
saying, Go and walk through the land, and describe it, and come again to me, that I may here cast
lots for you before the L
ORD
in Shiloh.
9
And the men went and passed through the land, and
described it by cities into seven parts in a book, and came
again
to Joshua to the host at Shiloh.
10
And Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before the L
ORD
: and there Joshua divided the land
unto the children of Israel according to their divisions.
11
And the lot of the tribe of the children of Benjamin came up according to their families: and
the coast of their lot came forth between the children of Judah and the children of Joseph.
12
And
their border on the north side was from Jordan; and the border went up to the side of Jericho on the
north side, and went up through the mountains westward; and the goings out thereof were at the
wilderness of Beth-aven.
13
And the border went over from thence toward Luz, to the side of Luz,
which is Bethel, southward; and the border descended to Ataroth-adar, near the hill that
lieth
on
the south side of the nether Beth-horon.
14
And the border was drawn
thence,
and compassed the
corner of the sea southward, from the hill that
lieth
before Beth- horon southward; and the goings
out thereof were at Kirjath-baal, which
is
Kirjath- jearim, a city of the children of Judah: this
was
the west quarter.
15
And the south quarter
was
from the end of Kirjath-jearim, and the border went
out on the west, and went out to the well of waters of Nephtoah:
16
And the border came down to
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