JOSHUA children of Manasseh, all the cities with their villages. 10And they drove not out the Canaanites that dwelt in Gezerj but the Canaanites dwelt in the midst of Ephraim, unto this day, and became servants to do taskwork!
1 7 And this was the lot for the tribe of Manasseh; for he was the first-born of Joseph. As for Machir the first-born of Manasseh, the father of Gilead, because he was a man of war, therefore he had Gilead and Bashan. _ 2And the lot was for the rest of the children of Manasseh 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 Shechem, and for the children of Hepher, and for the chil- dren of Shemida; these were the male children of Manasseh the son of Joseph according to their families. 3But Ze- lophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, had no sons, but daugh- ters; and these are the names of his daughters: Mahlah, and Noah, Hog- lah, Milcah, and Tirzah. 4And they came near before Eleazar the priest, and before Joshua the son of Nun, and before the princes, saying: 'The LOED commanded Moses to give us an inheritance among our brethren'; therefore according to the command- ment of the LOED he gave them an inheritance among the brethren of their father. f 5And there f eH ten parts to Manasseh', beside the land of Gilead and Bashan, which is beyond the Jor- dan; 6because the daughters of Manas- seh had an inheritance among his sons; and the land of Gilead belonged unto the rest of the sons of Manasseh.
7And the border of Manasseh was, beginning from Asher, Michmethath, . which is before Shechem; and the border went along to the right hand, unto the inhabitants of En-tappuah. — 8The land of Tappuah belonged to Ma- nasseh; but Tappuah on the border of Manasseh belonged to the children of Ephraim. — 9And the border went down unto the brook of Kanah, south- ward of the brook, by cities which be- longed to Ephraim among the cities of Manasseh; but the border of Ma- nasseh was on the north side of the brook; and the goings out thereof were at the sea: "southward it was Ephra- im's, and northward it was Ma- nasseh's, and the sea was his border; and they reached to Asher on the north, and to Issachar on the east.
uAnd Manasseh had in Issachar and in Asher 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. 12Yet the children of Manasseh could not drive out the inhabitants of those cities; but the Canaanites were resolved to dwell in that land. wAnd it came to pass, when the children of Israel were waxen strong, that they put the Ca- naanites to taskwork, but did not utterly drive them out.
14And the children of Joseph spoke unto Joshua, saying: 'Why hast thou given me but one lot and one part for an inheritance, seeing I am a great people, forasmuch as the LOED hath blessed me thus?' "And Joshua said unto them: 'If thou be a great peo- ple, 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 Ephraim.is too narrow for thee.' 16And the chil- dren of Joseph said: ' The hill-couixtry will not be enough for us; and all the JOSHUA JOSHUA 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 val- ley of Jezreel.' 17And Joshua spoke unto the house of Joseph, even to Ephraim and to Manasseh, saying- 'Thou art a great people, and hast great power; thou shalt not have one lot only; 18but 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 the; have chariots of iron, and thoug] they be strong.'
1 Q And the whole congregation of the children of Israel assembled themselves together at Shiloh, and set up the tent of meeting there; and the knd was subdued before them. 2And there remained among the chil- dren of Israel seven tribes, which had not yet received their inheritance. 3And Joshua said unto the children of Israel: ' How long are ye slack to go in to possess the land, which the LORD, the God of your fathers, hath given you? 4Appoint 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. 5And they shall divide it into seven portions: Judah shall abide in his border on the south; and the house of Joseph shall abide in their border on the north. 6And ye shall describe the land into seven portions, and bring the description hither to me; and I will cast lots for you here before the LORD our God. Tor the Levites have no portion among you, for the priest- hood of the LORD is their inheritance; and Gad and Reuben and the half- tribe of Manasseh have received their inheritance beyond the Jordan eastward, which Moses the servant of the LORD gave them.'
8And the men arose, and went; and Joshua 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 the LORD in Shiloh/ 9And the men went and passed through the land, and described it by cities into seven portions in a book, and they came to Joshua unto the camp at Shiloh. 10And Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before the LORD; and there Joshua divided the land unto the children of Israel ac- cording to their divisions.
uAnd the lot of the tribe of the children of Benjamin ^ came up ac- cording to their families; and the border of their lot went out between the children of Judah and the chil- dren of Joseph. ^And their border on the north side was from the Jordan; and the border went up to the side of Jericho on the north, and went up through the hill-country westward; and the goings out thereof were at the wilderness of Beth-aven. 13And the border passed along from thence to Luz, to the side of Luz — the same is Beth-el — southward; and the bor- der went down to Atroth-addar, by the mountain that lieth on the south of Beth-horon the nether. 14And 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 there- of were at Kiriath-baal— -the same is Kiriath-jearim — a city of the chil- dren of Judah; this was the west side. 18And 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. 16And the border went JOSHUA JOSHUA 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 Einnom, to the side of the Jebusite southward, and went down to En-rogel. 17And it was drawn on the north, and went out at En-shemesh, and went out to Geliloth, which is over against the ascent of Adiunrnim; and it went down to the Stone of Bohan the son of Reuben. 18And it passed along to the side over against the Arabah northward, and went down unto the Arabah. 19And 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 Jor- dan; this was the south border. 20And the Jordan was to be the border of it on the east side. This was the inher-, itance of the children of Benjamin, by the borders thereof jround about, ac- cording to their families.
^Now the cities of the tribe of the children of Benjamin according to their families were Jericho, and Beth- hoglah, and Emek-keziz; ^and Beth- arabah, and Zemaraim, and Beth-el; ^and Awim, and Parah, and Oph- rah; wand Chephar-ammonah, and Ophni, and Geba; twelve cities with their villages: ^ibeon, and Ramah, and Beeroth; 26and Mizpeh, and Che- phirah, and Mozah; 27and Rekem, and Irpeel, and Taralah; 28and Zela, Eleph, and the Jebusite — the same is Jeru- salem, Gibeath, and Kiriath; four- teen cities with their villages. This is the inheritance of the children of Benjamin according to their families.
"j Q And the second lot came out for ^^ Simeon, even for the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families; and their inheritance was in the midst of the inheritance of the children of Judah. 2And they had for their inheritance Beer-sheba with Sheba, and Moladah; 3and Hazar- shual, and Balah, and Ezem; 4and Eltolad, and Bethul, and Hormah; 5and Ziklag, and Beth-marcaboth, and Hazar-susah; 6and Beth-lebapth, and Sharuhen; thirteen cities with their villages: 7Ain, Rimmon, and Ether, and Ashan; four cities with their vil- lages; 8and all the villages that were round about these cities to Baalath- beer, as far as Ramah of the South. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families. 90ut of the allotment of the children of Judah was the inheritance of the children of Simeon, for the por- tion of the children of Judah was too much for them; therefore the children of Simeon had inheritance in the midst of ijieu* inheritance.
10Aad the third lot came up for the children of Zebulun according to their families; and the border of then* in- heritance was unto Sand. uAnd then* border went up westward, even to Maralah, and reached to Dabbesheth; and it reached to the brook that is before Jokneam. ^And it turned from Sand eastward toward the sunrising unto the border of Chisloth-tabor; and it went out to Dobrath, and went up to Japhia. MAnd from thence it passed along eastward to Gath- hepher, to Eth-kazin; and it went out at Rimmon-methoar unto Neah. 14And the border turned about it on the north to Hannathon; and the goings out thereof were at the valley of Iphtahel; 15and Kattath, and Na- halal, and Shimron, and Idalah, and Beth-lehem; twelve cities with their villages. 16This is the inheritance of the children of Zebulun according to their JOSHUA families, these cities with, their villages.
17The fourth lot came out for Issa- char, even for the children of Issachar according to their families. 18And their border was Jezreel, and Chesulloth, and Shunem; 19and Hapharaim, and Shion, and Anaharath; 20and Rabbith, and Kishion, and Ebez; ^and Remeth, and En-gannim, and En-haddah, and Beth-pazzez; ^and the border reached to Tabor, and Shahazim, and Beth-shemesh; and the goings out of their border were at the Jordan; six- teen cities with their villages. ^This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Issachar according to their families, the cities with their villages ^And the fifth lot came out for the tribe of the children of Asher accord- ing to their families. 25And their bor- der was Helkath, and Hali, and Beten, and Achshaph; 26and Allammelech, and Amad, and Mishal; and it reached to Carmel westward, and tp Shihor- Hbnath. 27Ajnd it turned toward the sunrising to Beth-dagon, and reached to Zebulun and to the valley of Iphtah- el northward at Beth-emek and Neiel; and it went out to Cabul on the left hand, 28and Ebron, and Rehob, and Hammon, and Kanah, even unto great Zidon. 29And the border turned to Ramah, and to the fortified city of Tyre; and the border turned to Hosah; and the goings out thereof were at the sea from Hebel to Achzib; 30Ummah also, and Aphek, and Rehob; twenty and two cities with their villages. 3lrThis is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Asher according to their families, these cities with their villages.
^The sixth lot caine out for the children of Naphtali, even for the children of Naphtali according to their families. ^And their border was from Heleph, from. Elon-bezaanannioi, and Adami-nekeb, and Jabneel, unto Lak- 1 kum; and the goings out thereof were at the Jordan. wAnd the border turned westward to Aznoth-tabor, and went out from thence to Hukok; and it reached to Zebulun on the south, and reached to Asher on the west, and to Judah at the Jordan toward the sun- rising. 35And the fortified cities were Ziddim-zer, and Hammath, and Rakkath, and Chirm ereth; 36and Ada- mah, and Ramah, and Hazor; 37and Kedesh, and Edrei, and En-hazor; 38and Iron, and Migdal-el, and Horem, and Beth-anath, and Beth-shemesh; nineteen cities with their villages. 39This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Naphtali according to their families, the cities with their villages.
40The seventh lot came out for the tribe of the children of Dan according to their families. ^And the border of their inheritance was Zorah, and Eshtaol, and Ir-shemesh; ^and Shaal- abbin, and Aijalon, and Ithlah; ^and Elon, and Timnah, and Ekron; 44and Eltekeh, and Gibbethon, and Baalath; 46and Jehud, and Bene-berak, and Gath-rimmon; 46and Me-jarkon, and Rakkon, with the border over against Joppa. 47And the border of the chil- dren of Dan was too strait for them; so the children of Dan went up and fought against Leshem, and took it, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and possessed it, and dwelt therein, and called Leshem, Dan, after the name of Dan their father. 48This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Dan according to their families, these cities with then* villages.
49When they had made an end of distributing the land for inheritance by the borders thereof, the children of Israel gave an inheritance to Joshua the son of Nun in the midst of them; 50according to the commandment of JOSHUA the LORD they gave him the city which he asked, even Timnath-serah in the hill-country of Ephraim; and he built the city, and dwelt therein.
61These are the inheritances, which Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers' houses of the tribes of the children of Israel, distributed for inheritance by lot in Shiloh before the LOED, at the door of the tent of meeting. So they made an end of dividing the land. OA And the LOED spoke unto Joshua, saying: 2<Speak to the children of Israel, saying: Assign you the cities of refuge, whereof I spoke unto you by the hand of Moses; ^hat the manslayer that killeth any person through ^ error and un- awares may flee thither; and they shall be unto you for a refuge from the avenger of blood. 4And he shall flee unto one of those cities, and shall stand at the entrance _ of the gate of the city, and declare his cause in the ears of the elders of that city; and they shall take him into the city unto them, and give him a place, that he may dwell among them. 5And if the avenger of blood pursue after him, then they shall not deliver up the man- slayer into his hand; because he smote his neighbour unawares, and hated hirn not beforetime. 6And he shall dwell in that city, Until he stand before the congregation for judgment, until the death of the high priest that shall be in those days; then may the man- slayer return, and come unto his own city, and unto his own house, unto the city from whence he fled.7 7And they set apart Kedesh in Galilee in the hill-country of Naph- tali, and Shechem in the hill-country of Ephraim, and Kiriath-arba — the same is Hebron — in the hill-country of Judah. 8And beyond the Jordan at Jericho eastward, they assigned Bezer in the wilderness in the table-land out of m the tribe of Reuben, and Ra- moth in Gilead out of the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan out of the tribe^ of Manasseh. These were the appointed cities for all the children of Israel, and for the stranger that so- journeth among them, that whosoever killeth any person through error might flee thither, and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, until he stood before the congregation. O-| Then came near the heads of u^ fathers7 houses of the Levites unto Eleazar the priest, and unto Joshua the son of Nun, and unto the heads of fathers' houses of the tribes of the children of Israel; 2and they spoke unto them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, saying: 'The LOED com- manded by the hand of Moses to give us cities to dwell in, with the open land thereabout for our cattle.' 3And the children of Israel gave unto the Levites out of their inheritance, according to the ^ commandment of the LOED, these cities * with the open land about them.
4And the lot came out for the fam- ilies of the Kohathites; and the chil- dren of Aaron the priest, who were of the Levites, had by lot out of the tribe of Judah, and out of the tribe of the Simeonites, and out of the tribe of Benjamin, thirteen cities.
6And the rest of the children of Kohath had by lot out of the families of the tribe of Ephraim, and out of the tribe of Dan, and out of the half- tribe of Manasseh, ten cities.
6And the children of Gershon had by lot out of the families of the tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Asher, and out of the tribe erf Naph- tali, and out of the half-tribe of Ma- nasseh in Bashan, thirteen cities.
JOSHUA 7The children of Merari according to their famihes had out of the tribe of Reuben, and out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zebulun, twelve cities.
8And the children of Israel gave by lot unto the Levites these cities with the open land about them, as the LOKD commanded by the hand of Moses.
9And they gave out of the tribe of the children of Judah, and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, these cities which are here mentioned by name. 10And they were for the chil- dren of Aaron, of the families of the Kohathites, who were of the children of Levi; for theirs was the first lot. nAnd they gave them Kiriath-arba, which Arba was the father of aAnak — the same is Hebron — in the hill- country of Judah, with the open land round about it. ^But the fields of the city, and the villages thereof, gave they to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for his possession.
unto the children of Aaron the priest they gave Hebron with the open land about it, the city of refuge for the manslayer, and Libnah with the open land about it; 14and Jattir with the open land about it, and Eshtemoa with the open land about it; 16and Holon with the open land about it, and Debir ^ with the open land about it; 1Gand Ain with the open land about it, and Juttah with the open land about it, and Beth-shemesh with the open land about it; nine cities out of those two tribes. 17And out of the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon with the open land about it, Geba with the open land about it; 18Ana- thoth with the open land about it, and Almon with the open land about it; four cities. 19A11 the cities of the children of Aaron, the priests, were thirteen cities with the open land about them, 20 And the families of the children of Kohath, the Levites, even the rest of the children of Kohath, they had the cities of their lot out of the tribe of Ephraim. MAnd they gave them She- chem with the open land about it in the hill-country of Ephraim, the city of refuge for the manslayer, and Gezer with the open land about it; 22and Kibzaim with the open land about it, and Beth-horqn with the open land about it; four cities. 23And out of the tribe of Dan, Elteke with the open land about it, Gibbethon with the open land about it; ^Aijalon with the open land about it, Gath- rimmon with the open land about it; four cities. 25And out of the half- tribe of Manasseh, Taanach with the open land about it, and Gath-rimmon with the open land about it; two cities. 26AH the cities of the families of the rest of the children of Kohath were ten with the open land about them.
27And unto the children of Gershon, of the families of the Levites, out of the half-tribe of Manasseh they gave Golan in Bashan with the open land about it, the city of refuge for the manslayer; and Beeshterah with the open land about it; two cities. 28And out of the tribe of Issachar, Kishion with the open land about it, Dob- rath with the open land about it; 29Jarmuth with the open land about it, En-gannim with the open land about it; four cities. 30And out of the tribe of Asher, Mishal with the open land about it, Abdon with the open land about it; 31Helkath with the open land about it, and Rehob with the open land about it; four cities. ^And out of the tribe of Naph- tali, Kedesh in Galilee with the open.
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JOSHUA land about it, the city of refuge for the manslayer, and Hammpth-dor with the open land about it, and Kartan with the open land about it; three cities. ^All the cities of the Gershonites according to their families were thirteen cities with the open land about them.
^And unto the families of the chil- dren of Merari, the rest of the Levites, out of the tribe of Zebulun, Jokneam with the open land about it, and Kartah with the open land about it: 35Dimnah with the open land about it, Nahalal with the open land about it; four cities. [^And out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer with the open land about it, and Jahaz with the open land about it; 37Kedemoth with the open land about it, and Mepha- ath with the open land about it; four cities.] 3*And out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead with the open land about it, the city of refuge for the manslayer, and Mahanaim with the open land about it; 39Heshbon with the open land about it, Jazer with the open land about it; four cities in aft. 40A11 these were the cities of the children of Merari ac- cording to their families, even the rest of the families of the Levites; and their lot was twelve cities.
^All the cities of the Levites — forty and eight cities with the open land about them — shall be in the midst of the possession of the children of Israel, ^even these cities, every one with the open land round about it; thus it shall be with all these cities.
^So the LORD gave unto Israel all the land which He swore to give unto their fathers; and they possessed it, and dwelt therein. **And the LOED gave them rest round about, accord- ing to all that He swore unto their fathers; and there stood not a man of all their enemies against them; the LORD delivered all their enemies into their hand, ^here failed not aught of any good thing which the LORD had spoken unto the house of Israel; all came to pass. OO Then Joshua called the Reu- ^^ benites, and the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, 2and said unto them: 'Ye have kept all that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded you.
and have hearkened unto my voice in all that I com- manded you; sye have not left your brethren these many days unto this day, but have kept the charge of the commandment of the LORD your God. 4And now the LORD your God hath given rest unto your brethren, as He spoke unto them; therefore now turn ye, and get you unto your tents, unto the land of your possession, which Moses the servant of the LORD gave you beyond the Jordan, ^nly. take diligent heed to do the com- mandment and the law, which Moses the servant of the LORD commanded you, to love the LORD your God, and to walk in all His ways, and to keep His commandments, and to cleave unto Him, and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul.' 6So Joshua blessed them, and sent them away; and they went unto their tents.
7Now to the one half-tribe of Ma- nasseh Moses had given inheritance in Bashan; but unto the other half gave Joshua among their brethren be- yond the Jordan westward. Moreover when Joshua sent them away unto their tents, he blessed them, 8and spoke unto them, saying: 'Return with much wealth unto your tents, and with very much cattle, with sil- ver, and with gold, and with brass, These two verses, taken from I Chron. vi 63-64, are excluded from the text in authoritative codices and placed in the margin.
JOSHUA and with iron, and with very much raiment; divide the spoil of your enemies with your brethren.'
9 And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half- tribe of Manasseh returned, and de- parted from the children of Israel out of Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan, to go unto the land of Gilead, to the land of their possession, where- of they were possessed, according to the commandment of the LORD by the hand of Moses* 10And when they came unto the region about the Jor- dan, that is in the land of Canaan, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manas- seh built there an altar by the Jordan, a great altar to look upon. "And the children of Israel heard say: 'Behold, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh have built an altar in the forefront of the land of Canaan, in the region about the Jordan, on the side that pertaineth to the children of Israel.' ^And when the children of Israel heard of it, the whole congrega- tion of the children of Israel gathered themselves together at Shiloh, to go up against them to war.
^And the children of Israel sent unto the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the half- tribe of Manasseh, into the land of Gilead, Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest; 14and with him ten princes, one prince of a fathers' house for each of the tribes of Israel; and they were every one of them head of their fathers' houses among the thousands of Israel. 15And they came unto the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh, unto the land of Gilead, and they spoke with them, saying: 16'Thus saith the whole congregation I