The Scriptures (ISR 1998) 1And the second lot came out for Shim‛on, for the tribe of the children of Shim‛on for their clans. And their inheritance was within the inheritance of the children of Yehuḏah. 2And they had in their inheritance Be’ĕrsheḇa, or Sheḇa, and Molaḏah, 3and Ḥatsar Shu‛al, and Balah, and Etsem, 4and Eltolaḏ, and Bethul, and Ḥormah, 5and Tsiqlag̅, and Bĕyth Markaḇoth, and Ḥatsar Susah, 6and Bĕyth Leḇa’oth, and Sharuḥen – thirteen cities and their villages. 7Ayin, Rimmon, and Ether, and Ashan – four cities and their villages; 8and all the villages that were all around these cities as far as Ba‛alath Be’ĕr, Ramath Neg̅eḇ. This was the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Shim‛on for their clans. 9The inheritance of the children of Shim‛on was out of the portion of the children of Yehuḏah, for the portion of the children of Yehuḏah was too much for them. So the children of Shim‛on had their inheritance within their inheritance. 10And the third lot came up for the children of Zeḇulun for their clans, and the border of their inheritance was as far as Sariḏ. 11And their border went toward the sea, and Maralah, and reached to Dabbesheth, and reached to the wadi that faced Yoqne‛am, 12and turned back from Sariḏ eastward toward the sunrise, to the border of Kisloth Taḇor, and went out toward Daḇerath, and went up to Yaphiya. 13And from there it passed over eastward, to the east of Gath Ḥĕpher, toward Eth Qatsin, and went out to Rimmon, which borders on Nĕ‛ah. 14And the border went around it on the north side of Ḥannathon, and it ended in the Valley of Yiphthaḥ Ěl; 15also Qattath, and Nahalal, and Shimron, and Yiḏalah, and Bĕyth Leḥem – twelve cities with their villages. 16This was the inheritance of the children of Zeḇulun for their clans, these cities with their villages. 17The fourth lot came out to Yissasḵar, for the children of Yissasḵar, for their clans. 18And their border was toward Yizre‛ĕl, and Kesulloth, and Shunĕm, 19and Ḥapharayim, and Shiyon, and Anaḥarath, 20and Rabbith, and Qishyon, and Eḇets, 21and Remeth, and Ěn Gannim, and Ěn Ḥaddah, and Bĕyth Patstsĕts. 22And the border reached to Taḇor, and Shaḥatsimah, and Bĕyth Shemesh, and their border ended at the Yardĕn – sixteen cities with their villages. 23This was the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Yissasḵar for their clans, the cities and their villages. 24And the fifth lot came out for the tribe of the children of Ashĕr for their clans. 25And their border was Ḥelqath, and Ḥali, and Beten, and Aḵshaph, 26and Allammeleḵ, and Amaḏ, and Mish’al. And it reached to Mount Karmel westward, and to Brook Shiḥor Liḇnath, 27and turned toward the sunrise, to Bĕyth Dag̅on, and reached to Zeḇulun and to the Valley of Yiphthaḥ Ěl, then northward beyond Bĕyth Ěmeq and Ne‛i’ĕl, and went out to Kaḇul which was on the left, 28and Ḥeḇron, and Reḥoḇ, and Ḥammon, and Qanah, as far as Great Tsiḏon. 29And the border turned to Ramah and to the strong city Tsor, and the border turned to Ḥosah, and ended at the sea, from the coast to Aḵziḇ. 30And Ummah, and Aphĕq, and Reḥoḇ were included – twenty-two cities with their villages. 31This was the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Ashĕr for their clans, these cities with their villages. 32The sixth lot came out to the children of Naphtali, for the children of Naphtali for their clans. 33And their border was from Ḥeleph, from the terebinth tree in Tsa’anannim, and Aḏami Neqeḇ, and Yaḇne’ĕl, as far as Laqqum, and it ended at the Yardĕn. 34And the border turned westward to Aznoth Taḇor, and went out from there toward Ḥuqqoq, and reached to Zeḇulun on the south side and Ashĕr on the west side, and ended at Yehuḏah by the Yardĕn toward the sunrise. 35And the cities of defence were Tsiddim, Tsĕr, and Ḥammath, Raqqath, and Kinnereth, 36and Aḏamah, and Ramah, and Ḥatsor, 37and Qeḏesh, and Eḏre‛i, and Ěn Ḥatsor, 38and Yiron, and Mig̅dal Ěl, Ḥorĕm, and Bĕyth Anath, and Bĕyth Shemesh – nineteen cities with their villages. 39This was the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Naphtali for their clans, the cities with their villages. 40The seventh lot came out for the tribe of the children of Dan for their clans. 41And the border of their inheritance was Tsor‛ah, and Eshta’ol, and Ir Shemesh, 42and Sha‛alabbin, and Ayalon, and Yithlah, 43and Ělon, and Timnathah, and Eqron, 44and Elteqĕh, and Gibbethon, and Ba‛alath, 45and Yehuḏ, and Benĕi Beraq, and Gath Rimmon, 46and Mĕy Yarqon, and Raqqon, with the border before Yapho. 47And the border of the children of Dan went out from them. And the children of Dan went up to fight against Leshem and captured it. And they smote it with the edge of the sword, and possessed it, and dwelt in it, and called it Leshem, Dan, after the name of Dan their father. 48This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Dan for their clans, these cities with their villages. 49And when they had ended dividing the land as an inheritance according to their borders, the children of Yisra’ĕl gave an inheritance to Yehoshua son of Nun in their midst. 50According to the mouth of יהוה they gave him the city which he asked for, Timnath Seraḥ in the mountains of Ephrayim. And he built the city and dwelt in it. 51These were the inheritances which El‛azar the priest, and Yehoshua son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Yisra’ĕl divided as an inheritance by lot in Shiloh before יהוה, at the door of the Tent of Meeting. And they ended dividing the country. |