Yusha 18

The whole congregation of Bani-Israel assembled themselves together at Shiloh, and set up the tent of meeting there: and the land was subdued before them. ²There remained among Bani-Israel seven tribes, which had not yet divided their inheritance. ³Yusha said to Bani-Israel, How long are you slack to go in to possess the land, which Allah, the God of your fathers, has 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 to me. ⁵They shall divide it into seven portions: Judah shall stay in his border on the south, and the house of Yusuf shall stay in their border on the north. ⁶You shall describe the land into seven portions, and bring the description here to me; and I will cast lots for you here before Allah our God. ⁷For the Levites have no portion among you; for the priesthood of Allah is their inheritance: and Gad and Reuben and the half-tribe of Manasseh have received their inheritance beyond the Jordan eastward, which Musa the servant of Allah gave them. ⁸The men arose, and went: and Yusha charged those who 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 Allah in Shiloh. ⁹The men went and passed through the land, and described it by cities into seven portions in a book; and they came to Yusha to the camp at Shiloh. ¹⁰Yusha cast lots for them in Shiloh before Allah: and there Yusha divided the land to Bani-Israel according to their divisions. ¹¹The lot of the tribe of the children of Binyamin came up according to their families: and the border of their lot went out between the children of Judah and the children of Yusuf. ¹²Their 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 of it were at the wilderness of Beth Aven. ¹³The border passed along from there to Luz, to the side of Luz (the same is Bethel), southward; and the border went down to Ataroth Addar, by the mountain that lies on the south of Beth Horon the lower. ¹⁴The border extended there, and turned about on the west quarter southward, from the mountain that lies before Beth Horon southward; and the goings out of it were at Kiriath Baal (the same is Kiriath Jearim), a city of the children of Judah: this was the west quarter. ¹⁵The south quarter was from the outskirts of Kiriath Jearim; and the border went out westward, and went out to the spring of the waters of Nephtoah; ¹⁶and the border went down to the foot of the mountain that lies before the valley of Ibn Hinnom, which is in the valley 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 Ibn Reuben; ¹⁸and it passed along to the side over against the Arabah northward, and went down to 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. ²⁰The Jordan was its border on the east quarter. This was the inheritance of the children of Binyamin, by its borders all around, according to their families. ²¹Now the cities of the tribe of the children of Binyamin according to their families were Jericho, and Beth Hoglah, and Emek Keziz, ²²and Beth Arabah, and Zemaraim, and Bethel, 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 Binyamin according to their families.