Chapter 18

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AND the whole assembly of the children of Yashar'el assembled together at Shiyloh, and set up the Tabernacle of the assembly there. And the land was subdued before them.

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And there remained among the children of Yashar'el seven tribes, which had not yet received their inheritance.

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And Yahusha said unto the children of Yashar'el, How long are ye slack to go to possess the land, which Yahuah Elohai of your fathers has given you?

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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.

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And they shall divide it into seven parts: Yahudah shall abide in their coast on the Negev, and the house of Yoceph shall abide in their coasts on the north.

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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 Yahuah Elohaynu.

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But the Leviyiym have no part among you; for the priesthood of Yahuah is their inheritance: and Gad, and Re'uven, and half the tribe of Menashsheh, have received their inheritance beyond the Yardan on the east, which Mosheh the servant of Yahuah gave them.

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And the men arose, and went away: and Yahusha 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 Yahuah in Shiyloh.

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And the men went and passed through the land, and described it by cities into seven parts in a cepher, and came again to El-Yahusha to the host at Shiyloh.

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And Yahusha cast lots for them in Shiyloh before Yahuah: and there Yahusha divided the land unto the children of Yashar'el according to their divisions.

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And the lot of the tribe of the children of Binyamiyn came up according to their families: and the coast of their lot came forth between the children of Yahudah and the children of Yoceph.

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And their border on the north side was from the Yardan; and the border went up to the side of Yeriycho on the north side, and went up through the mountains westward; and the goings out thereof were at the wilderness of Beyt Aven.

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And the border went over from thence toward Luz, to the side of Luz, which is Beyt-El, southward; and the border descended to Ataroth Addar, near the hill that lies on the south side of the nether Beyt Choron.

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And the border was drawn thence, and compassed the corner of the sea southward, from the hill that lies before Beyt Choron southward; and the goings out thereof were at Qiryat Ba`al, which is Qiryat Ye`ariym, a city of the children of Yahudah: this was the west quarter.

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And the south quarter was from the end of Qiryat Ye'ariym, and the border went out on the west, and went out to the well of waters of Nephtoach:

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And the border came down to the end of the mountain that lies before the valley of the son of Hinnom, and which is in the valley of the Repha'iym on the north, and descended to the valley of Hinnom, to the side of Yevuciy on the south, and descended to Eyn Rogel,

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And was drawn from the north, and went forth to Eyn Shemesh, and went forth toward Geliyloth, which is over against the going up of Adummiym, and descended to the stone of Bohan the son of Re'uven,

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And passed along toward the side over against Aravah northward, and went down unto Aravah:

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And the border passed along to the side of Beyt Choglah northward: and the outgoings of the border were at the north bay of the Salt Sea at the south end of the Yardan: this was the south coast.

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And the Yardan was the border of it on the east side. This was the inheritance of the children of Binyamiyn, by the coasts thereof round about, according to their families.

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Now the cities of the tribe of the children of Binyamiyn according to their families were Yeriycho, and Beyt Choglah, and the valley of Qetsiyts,

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And Beyt Ha-Aravah, and Tsemarayim, and Beyt-El,

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And Avviym, and Parah, and Ophrah,

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And Kephar Ha-Ammoniy, and Ophniy, and Geva; twelve cities with their villages:

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Giv'on, and Ramah, and Be'eroth,

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And Mitspah, and Kephiyrah, and Motsah,

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And Reqem, and Yirpe'el, and Tar'alah,

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And Tsela, Eleph, and Yevuciy, which is Yerushalayim, Giv'ah, and Qiryat Ye'ariym; fourteen cities with their villages. This is the inheritance of the children of Binyamiyn according to their families.



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