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          DASV: Joshua 18    

1 The whole congregation of the Israelites assembled at Shiloh
and set up the Tent of Meeting there. The land was subdued
under their control.
2 There remained among the Israelites seven tribes that had
not yet been allotted their land inheritance.
3 Then Joshua said to the Israelites, "How long are you waiting
before going in to possess the land, the LORD, the God of
your forefathers, has given you?
4 Select three men from each tribe, and I will send them out
and they will get up and walk through the land, and write
up a description according to each of their land inheritances.
Then they will return back to me.
5 They will split it up into seven portions. Judah will stay
in his territory in the south and the house of Joseph will
stay in their territory in the north.
6 Write up descriptions of the land into seven regions, and bring
the description back here to me; and I will cast lots for you
here before the LORD our God.
7 For the Levites have no portion among you; for the priesthood
of the LORD is their inheritance. Gad, Reuben and the half-tribe
of Manasseh have received their land inheritance east of the
Jordan River, which Moses, the servant of the LORD, gave them."

8 So the men got up and went. Joshua charged those who went
to map out the land, saying, "Go and walk through the land,
and write up a description of it, then come back to me;
and I will cast lots for you here before the LORD in Shiloh."
9 The men went and explored the land, and wrote a description
of it by town into seven regions on a scroll. Then they came
back to Joshua at the camp in Shiloh.
10 Then Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before the LORD.
There Joshua divided up the land for the Israelites according
to their tribal divisions.

11 The lot of the tribe of Benjamin came up according to their clans.
Their territorial allotment was between the tribes of Judah and Joseph.
12 Their border on the north side was from the Jordan River
and went up north of Jericho, and went west through the hill
country and ended at the wilderness of Beth-aven.
13 From there the border crossed over to Luz, then it went to the
south of Luz (that is, Bethel), then the border went down to
Ataroth-addar, by the hill on the south of Lower Beth-horon.
14 The border on the west side turned on the west side to the
south from the hill on the south near Beth-horon and ended up
at Kiriath-baal (that is, Kiriath-jearim), a town belonging to Judah.
This was the western border.
15 The south side was from the outskirts of Kiriath-jearim and
went west, to the spring of the waters of Nephtoah.
16 The border descended to the base of the hill that overlooks
the Hinnom Valley, that is north of the Rephaim Valley. From there
it went down to the Hinnom, to the south side of the Jebusites,
down to En-rogel.
17 It extended northward to En-shemesh, and then went out to Geliloth,
which is opposite the Ascent of Adummim. Then it went down to
the Stone of Bohan, the son of Reuben.
18 It passed along to the north side overlooking the Arabah,
and descended into the Arabah.
19 The border then crossed over to the north side of Beth-hoglah
and ended at the north bay of the Salt (Dead) Sea, at the south
end of the Jordan River. This is the southern border.
20 The Jordan River was the border on the east side. This was the
land inheritance of the tribe of Benjamin, by its borders according
to their clans.
21 Now the towns of the tribe of Benjamin according to their clans
were Jericho, Beth-hoglah, Emek-keziz,
22 Beth-arabah, Zemaraim, Bethel,
23 Avvim, Parah, Ophrah,
24 Kephar-ammoni, Ophni, Geba--twelve towns with their villages:
25 Gibeon, Ramah, Beeroth,
26 Mizpeh, Kephirah, Mozah,
27 Rekem, Irpeel, Taralah,
28 Zelah, Eleph, Jebus (that is, Jerusalem), Gibeah,
and Kiriath--fourteen towns with their villages. This is the land
inheritance of the tribe of Benjamin according to their clans.

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