Joshua 19

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1 And the second lot came forth to Simeon, the tribe of Simeon, according to their families; and their inheritance was within the inheritance of the children of Judah.
2 The inheritance they had: Beersheba or Sheba, Moladah,
3 Hazar-Shual, and Balah Vala,
4 Eltolad, Veful and Hormah,
5 Ziklag, Beth Markavof and Hazar-Susa,
6 Beth Lebaoth and Sharuhen: thirteen cities and their villages.
7 Ain, Rimmon, Ether, and Ashan: four cities and their villages,
8 and all the villages that were round about these cities to Baalath-Beer, or south of Rama. This is the inheritance of the tribe of Simeon, according to their families.
9 From the site of the sons of Judah [highlighted] inheritance [the tribe of] the children of Simeon. Since the children of Judah, the site was too large for them, the children of Simeon had inheritance in the midst of their inheritance.

10 The third lot came up for the children of Zebulun according to their families, and extended the limit of their inheritance was to Sarid;
eleven limit them up toward the sea, and Maralah, and to Dabeshefu and is adjacent to a stream that is before Jokneam;
12 And turned from Sarid to the east side, toward the sunrise, to the limit Kislof-Tabor; here goes out to Daberath, and goes back to Iafie;
13 thence runs east to Gittahhepher in Ittu-Ittahkazin, and goes to Rimmon to Neah;
14 and turns to the limit of the north and ends in the valley Hannafonu Jiphthahel;
15 Kattath, Nahalal, Shimron, Idalah, and Bethlehem: twelve cities with their villages.
16 This is the inheritance of the children of Zebulun according to their families; these cities and their villages.

17 The fourth lot came out to Issachar, for the children of Issachar according to their families;
18 And their border was Jezreel, Kesullof and Shunem,
19 Hafaraim, Shion and Anaharaf,
20 Ravvif, Kishon and Avez,
21 Remef, Yong-Gannim, Yong-Hadda and Beth Patsets;
22 and abuts the limit to Tabor and Shagatsime and Beth Shemesh, and ended their border were at Jordan: sixteen cities with their villages.
23 This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Issachar according to their families; these cities and their villages.

24 The fifth lot came out for the tribe of the children of Asher according to their families;
25 And their border was Helkath, Hali, Vatan and Ahsaf,
26 Alameleh, Amad, and Mishal; and adjacent [limit] to Carmel westward, and to Shihor-libnath;
27 then it goes back to the sunrise to Beth Dagon, and to Zebulun, and to Jiphthahel valley from the north, to Beth Emek and Neiel, and goes out to Cabul on the left side;
28 hereinafter: Evron, Rehov, Hammon, and Kanah, to great Zidon;
29 And then the returns to Rama to the fortified city of Tyre, and turns to the limit Hoss, and ends at the sea, the coast to Achzib;
thirty hereinafter: the Ummah, and Aphek, and Rehob: twenty-two cities with their villages.
31 This is the inheritance of the tribe of Asher, according to their families; these cities and their villages.

32 The sixth lot came out to the children of Naphtali, for the children of Naphtali according to their families;
33 And their border was from the Cherethites [and] by the oaks, [that] in Zaanannim, and Adami, Nekeb and Iavneilu to Lakkuma, and ended at the Jordan;
34 hence returns to the limit on the west Aznof-Tabor, and goes from there to Hukkoku, and to Zebulun on the south, and met together in Asher on the west, and to Judah at the Jordan toward the sun.
35 Fortified cities: Tsiddim, Cer, Hammath, Rakkath and Chinnereth,
36 Adam, Rama and Hazor,
37 Kedesh, Edrei and En-Hazor,
38 Ireon, Migdal-El, polecat, Beth-Anab, and Bethshemesh; nineteen cities with their villages.
39 This is the inheritance of the tribe of Naphtali according to their families; these cities and their villages.

40 Tribes of the children of Dan according to their families, the seventh lot came out;
41 limit of their inheritance was Zorah, and Eshtaol, and Ir-Shemesh,
42 Shaalavvin, Aijalon and IFLA,
43 Elon, Timnah, and Ekron,
44 Elteke, Gibbethon, and Baalath,
45 Igud, Bene Verak and Gath-Rimmon,
46 Me-Iarkon and Rakkon, with the limit near Joppa. And the children of Dan went limit small for them.
47 And the children of Dan went to war against Lasem and took it, and smote it with the sword, and possessed it, and dwelt therein, and called by the name of Lasem Dan Dan, his father.
48 This is the inheritance of the tribe of Dan, according to their families; these cities and their villages.

49 When an end of dividing the land by their coasts, the children of Israel gave an inheritance to Joshua the son of Nun:
50 at the command of the LORD they gave him the city Timnath-serah, which he requested, in the hill country of Ephraim; and he built the city and lived in it.
51 These are the inheritances, which Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the heads of the tribes of the children of Israel divided by lot in Shiloh before Jehovah, at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting. And ending the division of the land.

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