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 18
Tanakh 28 verses
- 1 And the whole congregation of the children of assembled themselves together at , and set up the tent of meeting there; and the land was subdued before them.
- 2 And there remained among the children of seven tribes, which had not yet received their inheritance.
- 3 And said unto the children of : ‘How long are ye slack to go in to possess the land, which , the of your fathers, hath given you?
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Appoint for you three men for 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 unto me.
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And they shall divide it into seven portions: shall abide in his border on the south, and the house of shall abide in their border on the north.
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- 6 And ye shall describe the land into seven portions, and bring the description hither to me; and I will cast lots for you here before our .
- 7 For the Levites have no portion among you, for the of is their inheritance; and and and the half-tribe of have received their inheritance beyond the eastward, which the of gave them.’
- 8 And the men arose, and went; and charged them that went to describe the land, saying: ‘Go and walk through the land, and describe it, and come back to me, and I will cast lots for you here before in .’
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And the men went and passed through the land, and described it by cities into seven portions in a book, and they came to unto the camp at .
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- 10 And cast lots for them in before ; and there divided the land unto the children of according to their divisions.
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And the lot of the tribe of the children of came up according to their families; and the border of their lot went out between the children of and the children of .
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And their border on the north side was from the ; and the border went up to the side of on the north, and went up through the hill-country westward; and the goings out thereof were at the wilderness of Beth-aven.
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And the border passed along from thence to Luz, to the side of Luz—the same is Beth-el—southward; and the border went down to Atroth-addar, by the mountain that lieth on the south of Beth-horon the nether.
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And the border was drawn and turned about on the west side southward, from the mountain that lieth before Beth-horon southward; and the goings out thereof were at Kiriath-baal—the same is Kiriath-jearim—a city of the children of ; this was the west side.
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And the south side was from the uttermost part of Kiriath-jearim, and the border went out westward, and went out to the fountain of the waters of Nephtoah.
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- 16 And the border went down to the uttermost part of the mountain that lieth before the Valley of the son of Hinnom, which is in the vale 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.
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And it was drawn on the north, 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 the son of .
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And it passed along to the side over against the Arabah northward, and went down unto the Arabah.
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And 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 ; this was the south border.
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- 20 And the was to be the border of it on the east side. This was the inheritance of the children of , by the borders thereof round about, according to their families.
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Now the cities of the tribe of the children of according to their families were , and Beth-hoglah, and Emek-keziz;
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and Beth-arabah, and Zemaraim, and Beth-el;
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and Avvim, and Parah, and Ophrah;
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and Chephar-ammonah, and Ophni, and Geba; twelve cities with their villages:
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Gibeon, and Ramah, and Beeroth;
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and Mizpeh, and Chephirah, and Mozah;
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- 27 and Rekem, and Irpeel, and Taralah;
- 28 and Zela, Eleph, and the Jebusite—the same is , Gibeath, and Kiriath; fourteen cities with their villages. This is the inheritance of the children of according to their families.