1And 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 . 2And there remained among the children of Israel seven tribes , which had not yet divided their inheritance . 3And Joshua said unto the children of Israel , How long are ye slack to go in to possess the land, which Jehovah , the God of your fathers, hath given you ? 4Appoint 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 unto me . 5And 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 . 6And ye shall describe the land into seven portions , and bring the description hither to me ; and I will cast lots for you here before Jehovah our God . 7For the Levites have no portion among you ; for the priesthood of Jehovah 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 Jehovah gave them . 8And 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 again to me ; and I will cast lots for you here before Jehovah in Shiloh . 9And 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 . 10And Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before Jehovah : and there Joshua divided the land unto the children of Israel according to their divisions .
The Remaining Land to be Divided
11And 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 . 12And 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 thereof were at the wilderness of Beth-aven . 13And 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 Ataroth-addar , by the mountain that lieth on the south of Beth-horon the nether . 14And the border extended thence , and turned about on the west quarter 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 quarter . 15And the south quarter 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 ;
The Division of the Land
16and 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 ; 17and 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 ; 18and it passed along to the side over against the Arabah northward , and went down unto the Arabah ; 19and 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 . 20And the Jordan was the border of it on the east quarter . This was the inheritance of the children of Benjamin , by the borders thereof round about , according to their families . 21Now the cities of the tribe of the children of Benjamin according to their families were Jericho , and Beth-hoglah , and Emek-keziz , 22and Beth-arabah , and Zemaraim , and Beth-el , 23and Avvim , and Parah , and Ophrah , 24and Chephar-ammoni , and Ophni , and Geba ; twelve cities with their villages : 25Gibeon , and Ramah , and Beeroth, 26and Mizpeh , and Chephirah , and Mozah , 27and Rekem , and Irpeel , and Taralah , 28and 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 .