# Joshua 18

> Lumin Translation

Source: https://www.lumin.faith/read/joshua/18

Translated from Hebrew and Greek with AI, then checked for clarity and fidelity.

1. All the congregation of Israel's sons assembled at Shiloh and pitched the tent of meeting there. The land was subdued before them.
2. Seven tribes were left among the sons of Israel who had not divided their inheritance.
3. Joshua said to the Israelites, "How long will you neglect entering to possess the land that Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has given you?"
4. Appoint three men from each tribe, and I will send them; they will rise, go through the land, describe it according to their inheritance, and come to me.
5. They shall divide it into seven allotments, Judah standing on his border on the south and the house of Joseph on theirs on the north.
6. You shall describe the land in seven portions and bring them here to me, and I will cast the lot for you here before Yahweh our God.
7. For the Levites have no share among you, since Yahweh's priesthood is their inheritance; Gad, Reuben, and half the tribe of Manasseh have taken their inheritance beyond the Jordan to the east, which Moses, Yahweh's servant, gave them.
8. The men rose up and departed, and Joshua commanded those going to describe the land, "Go and walk about in the land, describe it, and return to me; here I will cast lots for you before Yahweh in Shiloh."
9. The men went and passed through the land, recording it by cities into seven divisions in a book, and came to Joshua at the camp in Shiloh.
10. Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before Yahweh, and there Joshua divided the land to the children of Israel according to their divisions.
11. According to their families, the lot of the tribe of the sons of Benjamin came up. The border of their lot came out between the sons of Judah and the sons of Joseph.
12. Their northern border ran from the Jordan, ascending to Jericho's northern flank before climbing through the hill country westward, with its outer limits reaching the Beth-aven wilderness.
13. The border went from there to Luz, to the southern side of Luz, which is Bethel. Then the border descended to Ataroth-adar, to the hill on the south of lower Beth-horon.
14. The border extended and turned toward the southwestern quarter from the mountain overlooking Beth Horon on the south, and its endpoints reached Kiriath Baal—which is Kiriath Jearim—a city of Judah's sons. This was the west quarter.
15. The south quarter was from the end of Kiriath-jearim, and the border went out westward and went out to the spring of the waters of Nephtoah.
16. The border descended to the end of the mountain facing the Valley of Ben-hinnom, which lies in the Valley of Rephaim to the north; it descended to the Valley of Hinnom, to the shoulder of the Jebusite on the south, and descended to En-rogel.
17. It was drawn from the north and went out at En Shemesh, then went out to Geliloth, which lies opposite the ascent of Adummim, and descended to the stone of Bohan son of Reuben.
18. It passed to the side facing the Arabah on the north and went down to the Arabah.
19. The border passed to the north side of Beth-hoglah, and the border's extremities were at the northern bay of the Salt Sea, at the southern end of the Jordan. This was the southern border.
20. The Jordan bordered it on the eastern side. This was the inheritance of Benjamin's sons, by its surrounding borders, according to their families.
21. These were the cities of the tribe of Benjamin's sons according to their families: Jericho, Beth-hoglah, and the valley of Keziz.
22. Beth-arabah, Zemaraim, and Bethel
23. Avim, Parah, Ophrah,
24. Chepharhaamonai, Ophni, and Geba; twelve cities and their villages.
25. Gibeon, Ramah, and Beeroth.
26. Mizpeh, Chephirah, and Mozah
27. Rekem, Irpeel, and Taralah
28. Zelah, Eleph, Jebusite—that is, Jerusalem—Gibeath, Kiriath; fourteen cities with their villages. This is the inheritance of the sons of Benjamin according to their families.

## Nearby chapters

[Joshua 17](https://www.lumin.faith/read/joshua/17.md)
[Joshua 19](https://www.lumin.faith/read/joshua/19.md)

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