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of the Perizzites and the giants, since the Manasseh have received their inheritance
mountains of Ephraim are too confined for beyond the Jordan on the east, which Moses
you.” the servant of the LORD gave them.”
16 But the children of Joseph said, “The 8 Then the men arose to go away; and Joshua
mountain country is not enough for us; and all charged those who went to survey the land,
the Canaanites who dwell in the land of the saying, “Go, walk through the land, survey it,
valley have chariots of iron, both those who are and come back to me, that I may cast lots for
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of Beth Shean and its towns and those who are you here before the LORD in Shiloh.” So the
of the Valley of Jezreel.” men went, passed through the land, and wrote
17 And Joshua spoke to the house of the survey in a book in seven parts by cities;
Joseph—to Ephraim and Manasseh—saying, and they came to Joshua at the camp in
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“You are a great people and have great power; Shiloh. Then Joshua cast lots for them in
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you shall not have only one lot, but the moun- Shiloh before the LORD, and there Joshua
tain country shall be yours. Although it is divided the land to the children of Israel
wooded, you shall cut it down, and its farthest according to their divisions.
extent shall be yours; for you shall drive out 11 Now the lot of the tribe of the children of
the Canaanites, though they have iron chariots Benjamin came up according to their families,
and are strong.” and the territory of their lot came out
between the children of Judah and the chil-
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dren of Joseph. Their border on the north
side began at the Jordan, and the border went
up to the side of Jericho on the north, and
went up through the mountains westward; it
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of Manasseh complained that Joshua did not ended at the Wilderness of Beth Aven. The
allot them land sufficient to their numbers border went over from there toward Luz, to
and that the Canaanites were too tough for the side of Luz (which is Bethel) southward;
them to drive out altogether. He permitted and the border descended to Ataroth Addar,
them extra land in forested hills that they near the hill that lies on the south side of
could clear. Joshua told them that they could Lower Beth Horon.
drive out the Canaanites for God had promised 14 Then the border extended around the
to be with them in victory against chariots west side to the south, from the hill that lies
(Deut.20:1). before Beth Horon southward; and it ended at
Kirjath Baal (which is Kirjath Jearim), a city of
the children of Judah. This was the west side.
Now the whole congregation of the chil- 15 The south side began at the end of Kirjath
18 dren of Israel assembled together at Jearim, and the border extended on the west
Shiloh, and set up the tabernacle of meeting and went out to the spring of the waters of
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there. And the land was subdued before them. Nephtoah. Then the border came down to
2 But there remained among the children of the end of the mountain that lies before the
Israel seven tribes which had not yet received Valley of the Son of Hinnom, which is in the
their inheritance. Valley of the Rephaim on the north, descend-
3 Then Joshua said to the children of Israel: ed to the Valley of Hinnom, to the side of the
“How long will you neglect to go and possess Jebusite city on the south, and descended to
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the land which the LORD God of your fathers En Rogel. And it went around from the north,
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has given you? Pick out from among you went out to En Shemesh, and extended
three men for each tribe, and I will send them; toward Geliloth, which is before the Ascent of
they shall rise and go through the land, sur- Adummim, and descended to the stone of
vey it according to their inheritance, and come Bohan the son of Reuben. Then it passed
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back to me. And they shall divide it into seven along toward the north side of Arabah, and
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parts. Judah shall remain in their territory on went down to Arabah. And the border passed
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the south, and the house of Joseph shall along to the north side of Beth Hoglah; then
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remain in their territory on the north. You the border ended at the north bay at the Salt
shall therefore survey the land in seven parts Sea, at the south end of the Jordan. This was
and bring the survey here to me, that I may the southern boundary.
cast lots for you here before the LORD our 20 The Jordan was its border on the east side.
God. But the Levites have no part among you, This was the inheritance of the children of
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for the priesthood of the LORD is their inheri- Benjamin, according to its boundaries all
tance. And Gad, Reuben, and half the tribe of around, according to their families.
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