Joshua 15

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1 The fate of the tribe of the sons of Judah, according to their families, fell like this: in the adjacency with Edom, there was the wilderness of Sin, to the south, at the end of Teman;
2 Their southern boundary was the edge of the Salt Sea from the gulf stretching southward;
3 In the south, he goes to the height of Akravbimskaya, passes Qing and, going from the south to Kadeshbarn, passes Hezron and, going up to Addar, turns to Karkai,
4 Then passes Azmon, goes to the stream of Egypt, so that the end of this limit is the sea. This is your southern limit.
5 The border to the east is the salt sea, to the mouth of the Jordan; And the border from the north side [begins] from the bay of the sea, from the mouth of the Jordan;
6th From here the limit goes back to Beth-Hogl and passes from the northern side to Beth-Arave, and the limit goes up to the stone of Bogan, the son of Reuben;
7th Then the border goes up to Davir from the valley of Achor, and in the north it turns to Gilgal, which is against the hill of Adumimm, lying on the south side of the stream; From here the limit passes to the waters of En-Shemesh and ends at En-Rogel;
8 From here the limit goes up to the valley of the son of Hinnom from the south side of Jebus, which is Jerusalem, and the limit goes up to the top of the mountain, which is to the west, against the valley of Hinnom, which is on the edge of the valley of the Rephaim to the north.
9 From the top of the mountain the boundary turns to the spring of the waters of Nephtoach, and goes to the cities of Mount Ephron, and turns the boundary to Baal, which is Kirjath-Jarim;
10 Then he turned the border from Baal to the sea to Mount Seir, and went on the north side of Mount Jearim, which is Caesalon, and, descending to Bethshemes, passes through Timna;
eleven From here the border goes on the north side of Ekron, and turns the boundary to Shikaron, passes through the mountain Baal and reaches Jabneel, and the boundary ends at the sea. The western limit is a great sea.
12 This is the limit of the sons of Judah with their families from all sides.

13 And Caleb the son of Jephunneh [Jesus] gave a portion among the sons of Judah, as the Lord commanded Joshua; Kiriath-Arba, the father of Anak, otherwise Hebron.
14 And Caleb drove out from there the three sons of Anak: Sheshaya, Ahimana and Falmai, the children of the Anak.
15 From there he went against the inhabitants of Davir (the name of Debir before [was] Kiriath-Sefer).
16 And Caleb said: If anyone strikes Kiriath-sepher and takes it, I will give it to Achsus, my daughter, to wife.
17th And Othniel the son of Kenaz, the brother of Caleb, took him, and he married his daughter Achsah.
18 When she had to go, she was taught to ask her father for a field, and she left the donkey. Caleb said to her, "What do you want?"
19 She said: Give me a blessing; Thou hast given me the land of the south, give me also wells of water. And he gave her springs upper and springs lower.

20 This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Judah, according to their families:
21 Cities from the edge of the tribe of the sons of Judah, in contiguity with Edom, in the south were: Kavzeil, Eder, and Jagur,
22 Kina, Dimona, Adad,
23 Kedes, Hazor and Ifnan,
24 Zif, Telem and Valoth,
25 Hazor-Hadaf, Kiriath, Hezron, otherwise Gatsor,
26th Amam, Shema and Molada,
27th Hazar-Gaddah, Heshmon and Beth Palet,
28 Hazar-Shual, Bath-Sheba, and Viziotha,
29 Baal, Iem and Acez,
thirty Elfolad, Cecil and Horma,
31 Cyclaga, Madman and Sansana,
32 Levaoth, Shelikhim, Ain and Rimmon: all twenty-nine cities with their villages.
33 In the lowlands: Eshtaol, Tsora and Ashna,
34 Zanoa, Yong-Gannim, Tappuah and Gyanam,
35 Iarmouf, Odollam, Soho and Azeka,
36 Shaaraim, Adifaim, Geder or Gederofaim: fourteen cities with their villages.
37 Cenan, Hadash, Migdal-Gad,
38 Dilean, Mitzfe and Jokfeyl,
39 Lahis, Wozkaf and Eglon,
40 Hubbon, Lahmas and Hiflis,
41 Gederoth, Beth-Dagon, Naama and Maked: sixteen cities with their villages.
42 Livna, Ether and Auchan,
43 Iffah, Ashna and Netsiv,
44 Keila, Achziv and Maresh: nine cities with their villages.
45 Ekron with his dependents [towns] and his villages,
46 And from Ekron to the sea, all that is near Azot, with their villages,
47 Nitrogen, the cities that depend on him, and villages thereof, Gaza, the cities thereof, and villages thereof, until the very flow of the Egyptian and great sea, which is the limit.
48 On the mountains: Shamir, Iattir and Soho,
49 Danna, Kiriath-Sanna, otherwise Davir,
50 Anaf, Estemo and Anim,
51 Goshen, Holon and Gilo: eleven cities with their villages.
52 Arav, the Duma and Yeshin,
53 Ianum, Beth-Tappuah and Afeka,
54 Humba, Kiriath-Arba, otherwise Hebron, and Zihor: nine cities with their villages.
55 Maon, Carmel, Zif and Utah,
56 Jezreel, Jokdam and Zanoah,
57 Cain, Gibeah and Timna: ten cities with their villages.
58 Halhul, Beth-Zur and Gedor,
59 Maarath, Beth-Anof and Eltekon: six cities with their villages.
60 Kiriath-Baal, otherwise Kiriath-Jearim, and Arava: two cities with their villages.
61 In the desert: Beth-Arava, Middin and Sekaha,
62 Nivshan, Ir-Melach and En-Gedi: six cities with their villages.
63 But the Jebusites, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, could not be cast out by the sons of Judah, and therefore the Jebusites dwell with the children of Judah in Jerusalem even to this day.

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