1 And the whole congregation of the children of Israel assembled together at Shiloh, and set up the tabernacle of the congregation there. And the land was subdued before them.
2 And there remained among the children of Israel seven tribes, which had not yet received their inheritance. 3 And Joshua said unto the children of Israel, How long are ye slack to go to possess the land, which the LORD God of your fathers hath given you? 4 Give out from among you three men for each tribe: and I will send them, and they shall rise, and go through the land, and describe it according to the inheritance of them; and they shall come again to me. 5 And they shall divide it into seven parts: Judah shall abide in their coast on the south, and the house of Joseph shall abide in their coasts on the north. 6 Ye shall therefore describe the land into seven parts, and bring the description hither to me, that I may cast lots for you here before the LORD our God. 7 But the Levites have no part among you; for the priesthood of the LORD is their inheritance: and Gad, and Reuben, and half the tribe of Manasseh, have received their inheritance beyond Jordan on the east, which Moses the servant of the LORD gave them.
8 And the men arose, and went away: 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, that I may here cast lots for you before the LORD in Shiloh. 9 And the men went and passed through the land, and described it by cities into seven parts in a book, and came again to Joshua to the host at Shiloh.
10 And Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before the LORD: 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 coast of their lot came forth between the children of Judah and the children of Joseph. 12 And their border on the north side was from Jordan; and the border went up to the side of Jericho on the north side, and went up through the mountains westward; and the goings out thereof were at the wilderness of Beth-aven. 13 And the border went over from thence toward Luz, to the side of Luz, which is Beth-el, southward; and the border descended to Ataroth-adar, near the hill that lieth on the south side of the nether Beth-horon. 14 And the border was drawn thence, and compassed the corner of the sea southward, from the hill that lieth before Beth-horon southward; and the goings out thereof were at Kirjath-baal, which is Kirjath-jearim, a city of the children of Judah: this was the west quarter. 15 And the south quarter was from the end of Kirjath-jearim, and the border went out on the west, and went out to the well of waters of Nephtoah: 16 And the border came down to the end of the mountain that lieth before the valley of the son of Hinnom, and which is in the valley of the giants on the north, and descended to the valley of Hinnom, to the side of Jebusi on the south, and descended to En-rogel, 17 And was drawn from the north, and went forth to En-shemesh, and went forth toward Geliloth, which is over against the going up of Adummim, and descended to the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben, 18 And passed along toward the side over against Arabah northward, and went down unto Arabah: 19 And the border passed along to the side of Beth-hoglah northward: and the outgoings of the border were at the north bay of the salt sea at the south end of Jordan: this was the south coast. 20 And Jordan was the border of it on the east side. This was the inheritance of the children of Benjamin, by the coasts 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 the valley of Keziz, 22 And Beth-arabah, and Zemaraim, and Beth-el, 23 And Avim, and Parah, and Ophrah, 24 And Chephar-haammonai, and Ophni, and Gaba; 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 Jebusi, which is Jerusalem, Gibeath, and Kirjath; 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.