1 And the whole congregation of the children of Israel assembled themselves together at Shiloh, and set up the tent of meeting there: and the land was subdued before them. 2 And there remained among the children of Israel seven tribes, which had not yet divided their inheritance. 3 And Joshua said unto the children of Israel, How long are ye slack to go in to possess the land, which Jehovah, the God of your fathers, hath given you? 4 Appoint for you three men of 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. 5 And 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. 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 Jehovah our God. 7 For the Levites have no portion among you; for the priesthood of Jehovah 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 Jehovah gave them.
8 And 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 again to me; and I will cast lots for you here before Jehovah in Shiloh. 9 And 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. 10 And Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before Jehovah: and there Joshua divided the land unto the children of Israel according to their divisions.
11 And the lot of the tribe of the children of Benjamin came up according to their families: and the border of their lot went out between the children of Judah and the children of Joseph. 12 And their border on the north quarter 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. 13 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 Ataroth-addar, by the mountain that lieth on the south of Beth-horon the nether. 14 And the border extended thence, and turned about on the west quarter 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 Judah: this was the west quarter. 15 And the south quarter 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; 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; 17 and it extended northward, 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 Reuben; 18 and it passed along to the side over against the Arabah northward, and went down unto the Arabah; 19 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 Jordan: this was the south border. 20 And the Jordan was the border of it on the east quarter. This was the inheritance of the children of Benjamin, by the borders thereof round about, according to their families.
21 Now the cities of the tribe of the children of Benjamin according to their families were Jericho, and Beth-hoglah, and Emek-keziz, 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 cities with their villages: 25 Gibeon, and Ramah, and Beeroth, 26 and Mizpeh, and Chephirah, and Mozah, 27 and Rekem, and Irpeel, and Taralah, 28 and Zelah, Eleph, and the Jebusite (the same is Jerusalem), Gibeath, and Kiriath; fourteen cities with their villages. This is the inheritance of the children of Benjamin according to their families.
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.