6 You shall therefore survey the land in seven parts and bring the survey here to me, athat I may cast lots for you here before the Lord our God.
7 aBut the Levites have no part among you, for the priesthood of the Lord is their inheritance. bAnd Gad, Reuben, and half the tribe of Manasseh have received their inheritance beyond the Jordan on the east, which Moses the servant of the Lord gave them.”
8 Then the men arose to go away; and Joshua charged those who went to1 survey the land, saying, “Go, walk athrough the land, survey it, and come back to me, that I may cast lots for you here before the Lord in Shiloh.”
9 So the men went, passed through the land, and1 wrote the survey in a book in seven parts by cities; and they came to Joshua at the camp in Shiloh.
10 Then Joshua cast alots for them in Shiloh before the Lord, and there bJoshua divided the land to the children of Israel according to their1 divisions.
The Land of Benjamin
11 aNow the lot of the tribe of the children of Benjamin came up according to their families, and the territory of their lot came out between the children of Judah and the children of Joseph.
12 aTheir border on the north side began at the Jordan, and the border went up to the side of Jericho on the north, and went up through the mountains westward; it ended at the Wilderness of Beth Aven.
New King James Version®, Copyright© 1982, Thomas Nelson. All rights reserved.
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