1 Daarop het die hele vergadering van die kinders van Israel in Silo byeengekom en daar die tent van samekoms opgeslaan, aangesien die land voor hulle onderwerp was.
2 Maar daar was onder die kinders van Israel nog sewe stamme oor wie se erfenis hulle nie verdeel het nie.
3 Toe sê Josua aan die kinders van Israel: Hoe lank sal julle jul so traag hou om die land in besit te gaan neem wat die HERE, die God van julle vaders, aan julle gegee het?
4 Bring tot drie man uit elke stam, dat ek hulle kan uitstuur, en dat hulle kan klaarmaak en die land deurgaan en dit beskrywe met die oog op hulle erfdeel; dan moet hulle na my toe kom
5 en dit onder mekaar in sewe dele verdeel: Juda moet sy gebied in die suide behou, en die huis van Josef moet sy gebied in die noorde behou.
6 Maar julle moet die land in sewe dele beskrywe en die beskrywing hier na my toe bring; dan sal ek vir julle die lot werp, hier voor die aangesig van die HERE onse God.
7 Want die Leviete het geen aandeel onder julle nie, omdat die priesterskap van die HERE hulle erfdeel is; en Gad en Ruben en die halwe stam van Manasse het hulle erfdeel ontvang oorkant die Jordaan in die ooste, wat Moses, die kneg van die HERE, hulle gegee het.
8 Die manne het toe klaargemaak en gegaan; en by hulle vertrek het Josua hulle bevel gegee om die land te beskrywe, met die woorde: Gaan heen, trek rond in die land en beskrywe dit, en kom na my terug; dan sal ek hier vir julle die lot werp voor die aangesig van die HERE in Silo.
9 En die manne het gegaan en die land deurgetrek en dit in 'n boek beskrywe, volgens die stede, in sewe dele, en na Josua gekom in die laer van Silo.
10 Toe het Josua vir hulle die lot gewerp in Silo, voor die aangesig van die HERE; en Josua het die land daar onder die kinders van Israel verdeel volgens hulle afdelings.
11 En die lot het opgekom van die stam van die kinders van Benjamin volgens hulle geslagte; en die gebied wat vir hulle deur die lot aangewys is, het uitgekom tussen die kinders van Juda en die kinders van Josef;
12 en hulle lyn aan die noordekant was: van die Jordaan af; dan loop die lyn op na die noordelike hang van J,rigo, en dit loop op in die gebergte in westelike rigting en loop dood by die woestyn van Bet-Awen;
13 en daarvandaan loop die lyn oor na Lus, na die suidelike hang van Lus, dit is Bet-el; verder loop die lyn af na Atrot-Addar, op die gebergte wat suid lê van Bet-Horon-Onder;
14 dan buig die lyn om en swaai na die westekant, teen suid, van die gebergte wat suid teenoor Bet-Horon lê; verder loop dit dood by Kirjat-Ba„l, dit is Kirjat-Je rim, die stad van die kinders van Juda; dit is die westekant;
15 en die suidekant begin by die uiteinde van Kirjat-Je rim; en die lyn loop aan in die weste en dan na die waterfontein van Neftoag;
16 dan loop die lyn af na die uiteinde van die berg wat teenoor die dal Ben-Hinnom, noordelik in die dal van die Refa‹ete lê; dan loop dit af na die dal Hinnom, na die suidelike hang van die Jebusiete, en loop af na die fontein Rogel;
17 verder buig dit noord om en loop aan na die fontein Semes; dan loop dit aan na die klipkrale wat teenoor die hoogte van Adummim lê, en loop af na die klip van Bohan, die seun van Ruben;
18 dan gaan dit oor na die hang teenoor die Araba in noordelike rigting en loop af na die Araba;
19 verder loop die lyn oor na die hang van Bet-Hogla in noordelike rigting; dan loop die lyn dood by die noordelike tong van die Soutsee, aan die mond van die Jordaan in die suide; dit is die suidelike lyn;
20 en die Jordaan begrens dit aan die oostekant. Dit is die erfdeel van die kinders van Benjamin na hulle geslagte, volgens sy lyne rondom.
21 En die stede van die stam van die kinders van Benjamin, volgens hulle geslagte, was: J,rigo en Bet-Hogla en Emek-Kesis,
22 en Bet-Araba en Semar im en Bet-el,
23 en Ha„wim en Para en Ofra,
24 en Kefar-Ha„mmoni en Ofni en Gaba: twaalf stede met hulle dorpe;
25 G¡beon en Rama en Beërot,
26 en Mispe en Kef¡ra en Mosa,
27 en Rekem en J¡rpeël en T reala,
28 en Sela, Elef en Jebusi, dit is Jerusalem, G¡beat, Kirjat: veertien stede met hulle dorpe. Dit is die erfdeel van die kinders van Benjamin volgens hulle geslagte.
1 And all the meeting of the children of Israel came together at Shiloh and put up the Tent of meeting there: and the land was crushed before them.
2 But there were still seven tribes among the children of Israel who had not taken up their heritage.
3 Then Joshua said to the children of Israel, Why are you so slow to go in and take up your heritage in the land which the Lord, the God of your fathers, has given you?
4 Take from among you three men from every tribe; and I will send them to go through the land and make a record of it for distribution as their heritage; then let them come back to me.
5 And let them make division of it into seven parts: let Judah keep inside his limit on the south, and let the children of Joseph keep inside their limit on the north.
6 And you are to have the land marked out in seven parts, and come back to me with the record; and I will make the distribution for you here by the decision of the Lord our God.
7 For the Levites have no part among you; to be the Lord's priests is their heritage; and Gad and Reuben and the half-tribe of Manasseh have had their heritage on the east side of Jordan, given to them by Moses, the servant of the Lord.
8 So the men got up and went; and Joshua gave orders to those who went, to make a record of the land, saying, Go up and down through the land, and make a record of it and come back here to me, and I will make the distribution for you here by the decision of the Lord in Shiloh.
9 So the men went, travelling through the land, and made a record of it by towns in seven parts in a book, and came back to Joshua to the tent-circle at Shiloh.
10 And Joshua made the distribution for them in Shiloh by the decision of the Lord, marking out the land for the children of Israel by their divisions.
11 And the first heritage came out for the tribe of Benjamin by their families: and the limit of their heritage went between the children of Judah and the children of Joseph.
12 And their limit on the north was from the Jordan, and the line goes up to the side of Jericho on the north and through the hill-country to the west, ending at the waste land of Beth-aven.
13 And from there the line goes south to Luz, to the side of Luz (which is Beth-el), then down to Ataroth-addar, by the mountain to the south of Beth-horon the lower.
14 And the limit is marked as coming round to the south on the west side from the mountain which is south of Beth-horon, and ending at Kiriath-baal (which is Kiriath-jearim), a town of the children of Judah: this is the west part.
15 And the south part is from the farthest point of Kiriath-jearim, and the line goes out to the west to the fountain of the waters of Nephtoah:
16 And the line goes down to the farthest part of the mountain facing the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is on the north of the valley of Rephaim: from there it goes down to the valley of Hinnom, to the side of the Jebusite on the south as far as En-rogel;
17 And it goes to En-shemesh and on to Geliloth, opposite the way up to Adummim, and it goes down to the stone of Bohan, the son of Reuben;
18 And it goes on to the side facing the Arabah to the north, and down to the Arabah;
19 And on to the north side of Beth-hoglah, ending at the north inlet of the Salt Sea at the south end of Jordan; this is their limit on the south.
20 And the limit of the east part is the Jordan. This is the heritage of the children of Benjamin, marked out for their families by these limits on all sides.
21 And the towns of the children of Benjamin, given to them in the order of their families, are Jericho and Beth-hoglah and Emek-kezziz
22 And Beth-arabah and Zemaraim and Beth-el
23 And Avvim and Parah and Ophrah
24 And Chephar-Ammoni and Ophni and Geba; twelve towns with their unwalled places;
25 Gibeon and Ramah and Beeroth
26 And Mizpeh and Chephirah and Mozah
27 And Rekem and Irpeel and Taralah
28 And Zela, Eleph and the Jebusite (which is Jerusalem), Gibeath and Kiriath; fourteen towns with their unwalled places. This is the heritage of the children of Benjamin by their families.