¶ And the whole congregation of the children of Israel assembled together at Shiloh¹, and set up² the tabernacle of the congregation there. And the land was subdued before them.

¶ And there remained among the children of Israel seven tribes, which had not yet received their inheritance.

And Joshua said unto the children of Israel, How long are³ ye slack to go to possess the land, which the LORD God of your fathers hath given you?

Give out from among you three⁴ men for each tribe: and I will send them, and they shall rise, and go through the land, and describe⁵ it according to the inheritance of them; and they shall come again to me.

And they shall divide it into seven parts: Judah shall⁶ abide in their coast on the south, and the house⁷ of Joseph shall abide in their coasts on the north.

Ye shall therefore describe the land into seven parts, and bring the description hither to me, that I may cast⁸ lots for you here before the LORD our God.

But the Levites⁹ have no part among you; for the priesthood of the LORD is their inheritance: and Gad¹⁰, and Reuben, and half the tribe of Manasseh, have received their inheritance beyond Jordan on the east, which Moses the servant of the LORD gave them.

And the men arose, and went away: and Joshua charged them that went to describe the land, saying, Go¹¹ and walk through the land, and describe it, and come again to me, that I may here¹² cast lots for you before the LORD in Shiloh.

And the men went and passed through the land, and described¹³ it by cities into seven¹⁴ parts in a book, and came again to Joshua to the host at Shiloh.

¶ And Joshua cast lots¹⁵ for them in Shiloh before the LORD¹⁶: and there Joshua divided the land unto the children of Israel according to their divisions.

¶ And the lot of the tribe of the children of Benjamin came up according to their families: and the coast of their lot came forth between the children¹⁷ of Judah and the children of Joseph.

And their border on the north side was from Jordan; and the border went up to the side of Jericho¹⁸ on the north side, and went up through the mountains westward; and the goings out thereof were at the wilderness¹⁹ of Bethaven.

And the border went over from thence toward Luz, to the side of Luz²⁰, which is Bethel, southward; and the border descended to Atarothadar, near the hill that lieth on the south side of the nether Bethhoron²¹.

And the border was drawn thence, and compassed the corner of the sea southward, from the hill that lieth before Bethhoron southward; and the goings out thereof were at Kirjathbaal²², which is Kirjathjearim, a city of the children of Judah: this was the west quarter.

And the south quarter was from the end of Kirjathjearim, and the border went out on the west, and went out to the well of waters of Nephtoah²³:

And the border came down to the end of the mountain that lieth before the valley of the son²⁴ of Hinnom, and which is in the valley of the giants²⁵ on the north, and descended to the valley of Hinnom, to the side of Jebusi²⁶ on the south, and descended to Enrogel²⁷,

And was drawn from the north, and went forth to Enshemesh²⁸, and went forth toward Geliloth²⁹, which is over against the going up of Adummim, and descended to the stone³⁰ of Bohan the son of Reuben,

And passed along toward the side over against Arabah³¹ northward, and went down unto Arabah:

And the border passed along to the side of Bethhoglah northward: and the outgoings of the border were at the north bay³² of the salt³³ sea at the south end of Jordan: this was the³⁴ south coast.

¶³⁵And Jordan was the border of it on the east side. This was the inheritance of the children of Benjamin, by the coasts thereof round about, according to their families.

Now the cities of the tribe of the children of Benjamin according to their families were Jericho³⁶, and Bethhoglah³⁷, and the valley of Keziz,

And Betharabah³⁸, and Zemaraim³⁹, and Bethel⁴⁰,

And Avim, and Parah, and Ophrah⁴¹,

And Chepharhaammonai, and Ophni⁴², and Gaba⁴³; twelve cities with their villages:

Gibeon⁴⁴, and Ramah⁴⁵, and Beeroth,

And Mizpeh⁴⁸, and Chephirah⁴⁹, and Mozah,

And Rekem, and Irpeel, and Taralah,

And Zelah⁵⁰, Eleph, and Jebusi⁵¹, which is Jerusalem, Gibeath⁵², and Kirjath; fourteen cities with their villages. This is the inheritance of the children of Benjamin according to their families.