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.
1 Depois da conquista - apesar de sete das tribos de Israel ainda não terem tomado posse e conquistado totalmente a terra que Deus lhes deu - todo o povo se juntou em Silo para montar o tabernáculo.
3 Josué perguntou-lhes: Quanto tempo vão ainda esperar para expelirem as gentes que vivem na terra que o Senhor vosso Deus vos deu? Seleccionem três homens de cada tribo e eu enviá-los-ei para explorarem o território ainda não conquistado e depois vos fazerem um relatório quanto à sua extensão e às suas divisões naturais, para que possa reparti-la por vocês. Esses exploradores dividi-la-ão em sete partes, e em seguida eu lançarei o dado sagrado para decidir quais as partes que caberão a cada tribo.
7 Contudo lembrem-se de que os levitas não deverão receber terra alguma; eles são sacerdotes do Senhor. Essa é a parte maravilhosa que lhes é atribuída. Além disso, também as tribos de Gad, de Rúben e a meia-tribo de Manassés não poderão receber mais terra nenhuma, visto que tiveram o seu quinhão na margem leste do Jordão, onde Moisés lhes prometeu que poderiam estabelecer-se.
8 E assim foi que os batedores se foram para estabelecerem uma carta de toda a terra e trazerem depois um relatório disso a Josué. Só após isso o Senhor concediria as diversas secções da terra às tribos, lançando o dado sagrado. Os homens fizeram como lhes tinha sido dito e dividiram todo o território em sete secções, estabelecendo uma lista das cidades que havia em cada secção. Depois vieram ter com Josué ao campo de Silo.
10 Ali no tabernáculo em Silo o Senhor mostrou a Josué, tirando à sorte na presença de Deus, a que tribo calhava cada secção:
11 A terra dada à tribo de Benjamim: A secção de território cedida às famílias da tribo de Benjamim ficou entre a terra atribuída às tribos de Judá e de José.
12 A linha de demarcação a norte começava no rio Jordão, ia até ao norte de Jericó, depois inflectia para ocidente através da zona das colinas e do deserto de Bete-Aven.
13 Dali a linha descia para sul até Luz (também chamada Betel), e prosseguia até Atarote-Adar, na terra de colinas a sul de Bete-Horon de Baixo. Ali a demarcação voltava de novo para o sul, passando a montanha perto de Bete-Horon e terminava na localidade de Quiriate-Baal (também chamada por vezes Quiriate-Jearim), uma das cidades da tribo de Judá. Era esta a linha de separação do ocidente.
20 A baliza oriental era constituída pelo próprio rio Jordão. Esta foi a terra conferida à tribo de Benjamim.
21 Todas estas cidades mais as localidades dos arredores foram dadas à tribo de Benjamim.