These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
BIBLES
King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Joshua 17
Tanakh 18 verses
- 1 And this was the lot for the tribe of ; for he was the first-born of . As for Machir the first-born of , the father of , because he was a man of war, therefore he had and .
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2
And the lot was for the rest of the children of according to their families; for the children of Abiezer, and for the children of Helek, and for the children of Asriel, and for the children of , and for the children of Hepher, and for the children of Shemida; these were the male children of the son of according to their families.
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3
But Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of , the son of Machir, the son of , had no sons, but daughters; and these are the names of his daughters: Mahlah, and , Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.
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4
And they came near before Eleazar the , and before the son of Nun, and before the princes, saying: ‘The commanded to give us an inheritance among our brethren’; therefore according to the of he gave them an inheritance among the brethren of their father.
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5
And there fell ten parts to , beside the land of and , which is beyond the ;
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- 6 because the daughters of had an inheritance among his sons; and the land of belonged unto the rest of the sons of .
- 7 And the border of was, beginning from , Michmethath, which is before ; and the border went along to the right hand, unto the inhabitants of En-tappuah.—
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8
The land of Tappuah belonged to ; but Tappuah on the border of belonged to the children of .—
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9
And the border went down unto the brook of Kanah, southward of the brook, by cities which belonged to among the cities of ; but the border of was on the north side of the brook; and the goings out thereof were at the sea:
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- 10 southward it was Ephraim’s, and northward it was Manasseh’s, and the sea was his border; and they reached to on the north, and to on the east.
- 11 And had in and in Beth-shean and its towns, and Ibleam and its towns, and the inhabitants of Dor and its towns, and the inhabitants of En-dor and its towns, and the inhabitants of Taanach and its towns, and the inhabitants of Megiddo and its towns, even the three regions.
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12
Yet the children of could not drive out the inhabitants of those cities; but the Canaanites were resolved to dwell in that land.
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- 13 And it came to pass, when the children of were waxen strong, that they put the Canaanites to taskwork, but did not utterly drive them out.
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14
And the children of spoke unto , saying: ‘Why hast thou given me but one lot and one part for an inheritance, seeing I am a great people, forasmuch as hath blessed me thus?’
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15
And said unto them: ‘If thou be a great people, get thee up to the forest, and cut down for thyself there in the land of the Perizzites and of the Rephaim; since the hill-country of is too narrow for thee.’
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- 16 And the children of said: ‘The hill-country will not be enough for us; and all the Canaanites that dwell in the land of the valley have chariots of iron, both they who are in Beth-shean and its towns, and they who are in the valley of Jezreel.’
- 17 And spoke unto the house of , even to and to , saying: ‘Thou art a great people, and hast great power; thou shalt not have one lot only;
- 18 but the hill-country shall be thine; for though it is a forest, thou shalt cut it down, and the goings out thereof shall be thine; for thou shalt drive out the Canaanites, though they have chariots of iron, and though they be strong.’