Yehoshua, starting at chapter 13
{13:1} Now Yehoshua was old and well stricken in years; and the LORD
said to him, You are old and well stricken in years, and there remains
yet very much land to be possessed. {13:2} This is the land that yet
remains: all the regions of the Pelishtim, and all the Geshuri; {13:3}
from the Shichor, which is before Mitzrayim, even to the border of
`Ekron northward, [which] is reckoned to the Kana`anim; the five lords
of the Pelishtim; the `Azati, and the Ashdodi, the Eshkeloni, the
Gitti, and the `Ekroni; also the `Avvim, {13:4} on the south; all the
land of the Kana`anim, and Me`arah that belongs to the Tzidonim, to
Afek, to the border of the Amori; {13:5} and the land of the Givli,
and all Levanon, toward the sunrise, from Ba`al-Gad under Mount Hermon
to the entrance of Hamat; {13:6} all the inhabitants of the
hill-country from Levanon to Misrefot-Mayim, even all the Tzidonim;
them will I drive out from before the children of Yisra'el: only allot
you it to Yisra'el for an inheritance, as I have commanded you. {13:7}
Now therefore divide this land for an inheritance to the nine tribes,
and the half-tribe of Menashsheh. {13:8} With him the Re'uveni and the
Gadi received their inheritance, which Moshe gave them, beyond the
Yarden eastward, even as Moshe the servant of the LORD gave them:
{13:9} from `Aro`er, that is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon,
and the city that is in the middle of the valley, and all the plain of
Medeva to Divon; {13:10} and all the cities of Sichon king of the
Amori, who reigned in Heshbon, to the border of the children of
`Ammon; {13:11} and Gil`ad, and the border of the Geshuri and
Ma`akhati, and all Mount Hermon, and all Bashan to Salkhah; {13:12}
all the kingdom of `Og in Bashan, who reigned in `Ashtarot and in
Edre`i (the same was left of the remnant of the Refa'im); for these
did Moshe strike, and drove them out. {13:13} Nevertheless the
children of Yisra'el didn't drive out the Geshuri, nor the Ma`akhati:
but Geshur and Ma`akhat dwell in the midst of Yisra'el to this day.
{13:14} Only to the tribe of Levi he gave no inheritance; the
offerings of the LORD, the God of Yisra'el, made by fire are his
inheritance, as he spoke to him. {13:15} Moshe gave to the tribe of
the children of Re'uven according to their families. {13:16} Their
border was from `Aro`er, that is on the edge of the valley of the
Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the valley, and all the
plain by Medeva; {13:17} Heshbon, and all its cities that are in the
plain; Divon, and Bamot-Ba`al, and Beit-Ba`al-Me`on, {13:18} and
Yahatz, and Kedemot, and Mefa`at, {13:19} and Kiryatayim, and Sivmah,
and Tzeret-Hashachar in the mount of the valley, {13:20} and
Beit-Pe`or, and the slopes of Pisgah, and Beth-jeshimoth, {13:21} and
all the cities of the plain, and all the kingdom of Sichon king of the
Amori, who reigned in Heshbon, whom Moshe struck with the chiefs of
Midyan, Evi, and Rekem, and Tzur, and Hur, and Reva, the princes of
Sichon, who lived in the land. {13:22} Bil`am also the son of Be'or,
the soothsayer, did the children of Yisra'el kill with the sword among
the rest of their slain. {13:23} The border of the children of Re'uven
was the Yarden, and the border [of it]. This was the inheritance of
the children of Re'uven according to their families, the cities and
the villages of it. {13:24} Moshe gave to the tribe of Gad, to the
children of Gad, according to their families. {13:25} Their border was
Ya`zer, and all the cities of Gil`ad, and half the land of the
children of `Ammon, to `Aro`er that is before Rabbah; {13:26} and from
Heshbon to Ramat-Hamitzpeh, and Betonim; and from Machanayim to the
border of Devir; {13:27} and in the valley, Beit-Haram, and
Beit-Nimrah, and Sukkot, and Tzafon, the rest of the kingdom of Sichon
king of Heshbon, the Yarden and the border [of it], to the uttermost
part of the sea of Kinneret beyond the Yarden eastward. {13:28} This
is the inheritance of the children of Gad according to their families,
the cities and the villages of it. {13:29} Moshe gave [inheritance] to
the half-tribe of Menashsheh: and it was for the half-tribe of the
children of Menashsheh according to their families. {13:30} Their
border was from Machanayim, all Bashan, all the kingdom of `Og king of
Bashan, and all the towns of Ya'ir, which are in Bashan, sixty cities:
{13:31} and half Gil`ad, and `Ashtarot, and Edre`i, the cities of the
kingdom of `Og in Bashan, were for the children of Makhir the son of
Menashsheh, even for the half of the children of Makhir according to
their families. {13:32} These are the inheritances which Moshe
distributed in the plains of Mo'av, beyond the Yarden at Yericho,
eastward. {13:33} But to the tribe of Levi Moshe gave no inheritance:
the LORD, the God of Yisra'el, is their inheritance, as he spoke to
them.
{14:1} These are the inheritances which the children of Yisra'el
took in the land of Kana`an, which El`azar the [1>]Kohen[<1], and
Yehoshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers' [houses] of the
tribes of the children of Yisra'el, distributed to them, {14:2} by the
lot of their inheritance, as the LORD commanded by Moshe, for the nine
tribes, and for the half-tribe. {14:3} For Moshe had given the
inheritance of the two tribes and the half-tribe beyond the Yarden:
but to the Levites he gave no inheritance among them. {14:4} For the
children of Yosef were two tribes, Menashsheh and Efrayim: and they
gave no portion to the Levites in the land, save cities to dwell in,
with the suburbs of it for their cattle and for their substance.
{14:5} As the LORD commanded Moshe, so the children of Yisra'el did;
and they divided the land. {14:6} Then the children of Yehudah drew
near to Yehoshua in Gilgal: and Kalev the son of Yefunneh the Kenizzi
said to him, You know the thing that the LORD spoke to Moshe the man
of God concerning me and concerning you in Kadesh-Barnea. {14:7} Forty
years old was I when Moshe the servant of the LORD sent me from
Kadesh-Barnea to spy out the land; and I brought him word again as it
was in my heart. {14:8} Nevertheless my brothers who went up with me
made the heart of the people melt; but I wholly followed the LORD my
God. {14:9} Moshe swore on that day, saying, Surely the land whereon
your foot has trodden shall be an inheritance to you and to your
children forever, because you have wholly followed the LORD my God.
{14:10} Now, behold, the LORD has kept me alive, as he spoke, these
forty-five years, from the time that the LORD spoke this word to
Moshe, while Yisra'el walked in the wilderness: and now, behold, I am
this day eighty-five years old. {14:11} As yet I am as strong this day
as I as in the day that Moshe sent me: as my strength was then, even
so is my strength now, for war, and to go out and to come in. {14:12}
Now therefore give me this hill-country, whereof the LORD spoke in
that day; for you heard in that day how the `Anakim were there, and
cities great and fortified: it may be that the LORD will be with me,
and I shall drive them out, as the LORD spoke. {14:13} Yehoshua
blessed him; and he gave Hevron to Kalev the son of Yefunneh for an
inheritance. {14:14} Therefore Hevron became the inheritance of Kalev
the son of Yefunneh the Kenizzi to this day; because that he wholly
followed the LORD, the God of Yisra'el. {14:15} Now the name of Hevron
before was Kiryat-Arba; [which Arba was] the greatest man among the
`Anakim. The land had rest from war.
{15:1} The lot for the tribe of the children of Yehudah according to
their families was to the border of Edom, even to the wilderness of
Tzin southward, at the uttermost part of the south. {15:2} Their south
border was from the uttermost part of the Salt Sea, from the bay that
looks southward; {15:3} and it went out southward of the ascent of
`Akrabbim, and passed along to Tzin, and went up by the south of
Kadesh-Barnea, and passed along by Hetzron, and went up to Addar, and
turned about to Karka; {15:4} and it passed along to `Atzmon, and went
out at the brook of Mitzrayim; and the goings out of the border were
at the sea: this shall be your south border. {15:5} The east border
was the Salt Sea, even to the end of the Yarden. The border of the
north quarter was from the bay of the sea at the end of the Yarden;
{15:6} and the border went up to Beit-Hoglah, and passed along by the
north of Beit-Ha`aravah; and the border went up to the stone of Bohan
the son of Re'uven; {15:7} and the border went up to Devir from the
valley of `Akhor, and so northward, looking toward Gilgal, that is
over against the ascent of Adummim, which is on the south side of the
river; and the border passed along to the waters of `En-Shemesh, and
the goings out of it were at `En-Rogel; {15:8} and the border went up
by the valley of the son of Hinnom to the side of the Yevusi southward
(the same is Yerushalayim); and the border went up to the top of the
mountain that lies before the valley of Hinnom westward, which is at
the uttermost part of the valley of Refa'im northward; {15:9} and the
border extended from the top of the mountain to the spring of the
waters of Nefto'ach, and went out to the cities of Mount `Efron; and
the border extended to Ba`alah (the same is Kiryat-Ye`arim); {15:10}
and the border turned about from Ba`alah westward to Mount Se`ir, and
passed along to the side of Mount Ye`arim on the north (the same is
Kesalon), and went down to Beth-shemesh, and passed along by Timnah;
{15:11} and the border went out to the side of `Ekron northward; and
the border extended to Shikron, and passed along to Mount Ba`alah, and
went out at Yavne'el; and the goings out of the border were at the
sea. {15:12} The west border was to the great sea, and the border [of
it]. This is the border of the children of Yehudah round about
according to their families. {15:13} To Kalev the son of Yefunneh he
gave a portion among the children of Yehudah, according to the
[1>]mitzvah[<1] of the LORD to Yehoshua, even Kiryat-Arba, [which Arba
was] the father of `Anak (the same is Hevron). {15:14} Kalev drove out
there the three sons of `Anak: Sheshai, and Achiman, and Talmai, the
children of `Anak. {15:15} He went up there against the inhabitants of
Devir: now the name of Devir before was Kiryat Sepher. {15:16} Kalev
said, He who strikes Kiryat Sepher, and takes it, to him will I give
`Akhsah my daughter as wife. {15:17} `Otni'el the son of Kenaz, the
brother of Kalev, took it: and he gave him `Akhsah his daughter as
wife. {15:18} It happened, when she came [to him], that she moved him
to ask of her father a field: and she alighted from off her donkey;
and Kalev said, What would you? {15:19} She said, Give me a blessing;
for that you have set me in the land of the South, give me also
springs of water. He gave her the upper springs and the lower springs.
{15:20} This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of
Yehudah according to their families. {15:21} The uttermost cities of
the tribe of the children of Yehudah toward the border of Edom in the
South were Kavtz'el, and `Eder, and Yagur, {15:22} and Kinah, and
Dimonah, and `Ad`adah, {15:23} and Kedesh, and Hatzor, and Yitnan,
{15:24} Zif, and Telem, and Be`alot, {15:25} Hazor, Hadattah, Keriyot,
Hetzron (the same is Hatzor), {15:26} Amam, and Shema, and Moladah,
{15:27} and Hatzar-Gaddah, and Heshmon, and Beit-Pelet, {15:28} and
Hatzar-Shu`al, and Be'er-Sheva, and Bizyotyah, {15:29} Ba`alah, and
`Iyim, and `Etzem, {15:30} and Eltolad, and Kesil, and Hormah, {15:31}
and Tziklag, and Madmannah, and Sansannah, {15:32} and Leva'ot, and
Shilchim, and `Ayin, and Rimmon: all the cities are twenty-nine, with
their villages. {15:33} In the lowland, Eshta'ol, and Tzor`ah, and
Ashnah, {15:34} and Zanoach, and `En-Gannim, Tappuach, and `Enam,
{15:35} Yarmut, and `Adullam, Sokho, and `Azeka, {15:36} and
Sha`arayim, and `Aditayim, and Gederah, and Gederotayim; fourteen
cities with their villages. {15:37} Tzenan, and Hadashah, and
Migdal-gad, {15:38} and Dil`an, and Mitzpeh, and Yokte'el, {15:39}
Lakhish, and Botzkat, and `Eglon, {15:40} and Kabbon, and Lachmas, and
Kitlish, {15:41} and Kederot, Beit-Dagon, and Na`amah, and Makkedah;
sixteen cities with their villages. {15:42} Livna, and `Eter, and
`Ashan, {15:43} and Yiftach, and Ashnah, and Netziv, {15:44} and
Ke`ilah, and Akhziv, and Mareshah; nine cities with their villages.
{15:45} `Ekron, with its towns and its villages; {15:46} from `Ekron
even to the sea, all that were by the side of Ashdod, with their
villages. {15:47} Ashdod, its towns and its villages; `Aza, its towns
and its villages; to the brook of Mitzrayim, and the great sea, and
the border [of it]. {15:48} In the hill-country, Shamir, and Yattir,
and Sokho, {15:49} and Dannah, and Kiryat Sannah (the same is Devir),
{15:50} and `Anav, and Eshtemoh, and `Anim, {15:51} and Goshen, and
Holon, and Giloh; eleven cities with their villages. {15:52} Arav, and
Dumah, and Esh`an, {15:53} and Yanus, and Beit-Tappuach, and Afekah,
{15:54} and Humtah, and Kiryat-Arba (the same is Hevron), and Tzi`or;
nine cities with their villages. {15:55} Ma`on, Karmel, and Zif, and
Yutah, {15:56} and Yizre`el, and Yokde`am, and Zanoach, {15:57} Kayin,
Gevah, and Timnah; ten cities with their villages. {15:58} Halchul,
Beit-Tzur, and Gedor, {15:59} and Ma`arat, and Beit-`Anot, and
Eltekon; six cities with their villages. {15:60} Kiryat-Ba`al (the
same is Kiryat-Ye`arim), and Rabbah; two cities with their villages.
{15:61} In the wilderness, Beit-Ha`aravah, Middin, and Sekhakhah,
{15:62} and Nivshan, and the `Ir-Hamelach, and `En-Gedi; six cities
with their villages. {15:63} As for the Yevusi, the inhabitants of
Yerushalayim, the children of Yehudah couldn't drive them out: but the
Yevusi dwell with the children of Yehudah at Yerushalayim to this day.
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Footnotes:
[1] {14:1} priest
[1] {15:13} commandment
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