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== Yehoshua (Book of Joshua), Chapter 18 ==

<named id="1"/>1 And 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.

<named id="2"/>2 And there remained among the children of Israel seven tribes, which had not yet received their inheritance.

<named id="3"/>3 And Joshua said unto the children of Israel: 'How long are ye slack to go in to possess the land, which HaShem, the G-d of your fathers, hath given you?

<named id="4"/>4 Appoint for you three men for 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 unto me.

<named id="5"/>5 And 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.

<named id="6"/>6 And ye shall describe the land into seven portions, and bring the description hither to me; and I will cast lots for you here before HaShem our G-d.

<named id="7"/>7 For the Levites have no portion among you, for the priesthood of HaShem 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 HaShem gave them.'

<named id="8"/>8 And the men arose, and went; and Joshua charged them that went to describe the land, saying: 'Go and walk through the land, and describe it, and come back to me, and I will cast lots for you here before HaShem in Shiloh.'

<named id="9"/>9 And the men went and passed through the land, and described it by cities into seven portions in a book, and they came to Joshua unto the camp at Shiloh.

<named id="10"/>10 And Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before HaShem; and there Joshua divided the land unto the children of Israel according to their divisions.

<named id="11"/>11 And 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.

<named id="12"/>12 And their border on the north side 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 thereof were at the wilderness of Beth-aven.

<named id="13"/>13 And the border passed along from thence to Luz, to the side of Luz--the same is Beth-el--southward; and the border went down to Atroth-addar, by the mountain that lieth on the south of Beth-horon the nether.

<named id="14"/>14 And the border was drawn and turned about on the west side southward, from the mountain that lieth before Beth-horon southward; and the goings out thereof were at Kiriath-baal--the same is Kiriath-jearim--a city of the children of Judah; this was the west side.

<named id="15"/>15 And the south side was from the uttermost part of Kiriath-jearim, and the border went out westward, and went out to the fountain of the waters of Nephtoah.

<named id="16"/>16 And the border went down to the uttermost part of the mountain that lieth before the Valley of the son of Hinnom, which is in the vale 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.

<named id="17"/>17 And it was drawn on the north, 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.

<named id="18"/>18 And it passed along to the side over against the Arabah northward, and went down unto the Arabah.

<named id="19"/>19 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.

<named id="20"/>20 And the Jordan was to be the border of it on the east side. This was the inheritance of the children of Benjamin, by the borders thereof round about, according to their families.

<named id="21"/>21 Now the cities of the tribe of the children of Benjamin according to their families were Jericho, and Beth-hoglah, and Emek-keziz;

<named id="22"/>22 and Beth-arabah, and Zemaraim, and Beth-el;

<named id="23"/>23 and Avvim, and Parah, and Ophrah;

<named id="24"/>24 and Chephar-ammonah, and Ophni, and Geba; twelve cities with their villages:

<named id="25"/>25 Gibeon, and Ramah, and Beeroth;

<named id="26"/>26 and Mizpeh, and Chephirah, and Mozah;

<named id="27"/>27 and Rekem, and Irpeel, and Taralah;

<named id="28"/>28 and Zela, 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.

== See also ==
* [[Yehoshua 17|Previous Chapter]]
* [[Yehoshua 18 Commentaries]]
* [[Yehoshua 19|Next Chapter]]

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