Joshua 19

¹ The second portion awarded by lot came to Simeon, the tribe of the sons of Simeon, according to their clans their inheritance was encircled by the inheritance of the sons of Judah.

² For their portion they had Beersheba, Shema, Moladah;

³ Hazar-shual, Balah, Ezem;

⁴ Eltolad, Bethul, Hormah;

⁵ Ziklag, Beth-marcaboth, Hazar-susah;

⁶ Beth-lebaoth and Sharuhen: thirteen towns and their villages;

⁷ Ain, Rimmon, Ether and Ashan: four towns and their villages.

⁸ With these go all the villages lying outside these towns as far as Baalath-beer, Ramah of the Negeb. This was the inheritance of the tribe of the sons of Simeon according to their clans.

⁹ The inheritance of the sons of Simeon was taken out of the portion of the sons of Judah, because the share of the sons of Judah was too large for them; this is why it was within the inheritance of the sons of Judah that the sons of Simeon were given theirs.

¹⁰ The third portion fell to the sons of Zebulun according to their clans; the territory of their inheritance reached as far as Sarid;

¹¹ their boundary climbed westwards to Maraalah, touching Dabbesheth first and then the wadi facing Jokneam.

¹² But eastwards and towards the sunrise the boundary went from Sarid to the boundary of Chisloth-tabor, then towards Dobrath and upwards to Japhia.

¹³ Thence it went on, eastwards and towards the sunrise, to Gath-hepher and Ittah-kazin; it came out at Rimmon and turned towards Neah.

¹⁴ Then northwards the boundary bent towards Hannathon and ended at the plain of Iphtahel.

¹⁵ Besides this, there were Kattath, Nahalal, Shimron, Iralah and Bethlehem: twelve towns with their villages.

¹⁶ This was the inheritance of the sons of Zebulun according to their clans: these towns and their villages.

¹⁷ The fourth portion came to Issachar, to the sons of Issachar, according to their clans.

¹⁸ Their territory reached to Jezreel and included Chesulloth and Shunem;

¹⁹ Hapharaim, Shion, Anaharath;

²⁰ Dobrath, Kishion, Ebez;

²¹ Remeth and En-gannim, En-haddah and Beth-pazzez.

²² Their boundary touched Tabor and Shahazimah and Beth-shemesh, and ended at the Jordan: sixteen towns with their villages.

²³ This was the inheritance of the tribe of the sons of Issachar, according to their clans: the towns with their villages.

²⁴ The fifth portion came to the tribe of the sons of Asher, according to their clans.

²⁵ Within their territory were Helkath, Hali, Beten, Achshaph,

²⁶ Allam-melech, Amad and Mishal; on the west it touched Carmel and the streams of the Libnath;

²⁷ on the other side it went eastwards to Beth-dagon, touching Zebulun and the Vale of Iphtahel northwards, then Beth-emek and Neiel beyond; it ended at Cabul. To the north it took in

²⁸ Abdon, Rehob, Hammon and Kanah as far as Sidon the Great.

²⁹ The boundary then turned back towards Ramah and onto the stronghold of Tyre and Hosah, and ended at the sea. Mahalab, Achzib,

³⁰ Acco, Aphek, Rehob: twenty-two towns with their villages.

³¹ This was the inheritance of the tribe of the sons of Asher, according to their clans; these towns with their villages.

³² To the sons of Naphtali came the sixth portion, to the sons of Naphtali according to their clans.

³³ Their territory went from Heleph and the Oak of Zanaannim to Adami-negeb, to Jabneel as far as Lakkum, and ended at the Jordan.

³⁴ The westward boundary ran to Aznoth-tabor and thence passed on to Hukkok, touching Zebulun southwards, Asher westwards and the Jordan east-wards.

³⁵ The fortified towns were Ziddim, Zer, Hammath, Rakkath, Chinnereth;

³⁶ Adamah, Ramah, Hazor;

³⁷ Kedesh, Edrei, En-hazor;

³⁸ Yiron, Migdalel, Horem, Beth-anath, Beth-shemesh: nineteen towns with their villages.

³⁹ This was the inheritance of the sons of Naphtali according to their clans; the towns with their villages.

⁴⁰ To the tribe of the sons of Dan came the seventh portion according to their clans.

⁴¹ Within the territory of their inheritance were Zorah, Eshtaol, Irshemesh;

⁴² Sha-alabbin, Aijalon, Ithlah;

⁴³ Elon, Timnah, Ekron,

⁴⁴ Eltekeh, Gibbethon, Baalath;

⁴⁵ Jehud, Bene-berak, Gath-rimmon;

⁴⁶ Me-jarkon and Rakkon with the territory facing Joppa.

⁴⁷ But the territory of the sons of Dan resisted them; and therefore the sons of Dan went up and attacked Leshem and captured it and put it to the sword. Having seized the town they settled in it, and changed the name of Leshem to Dan after Dan their ancestor.

⁴⁸ This was the inheritance of the tribe of the sons of Dan, according to their clans: these towns with their villages.

⁴⁹ So ended the drawing of lots for the country and the apportioning of it.

⁵⁰ And the Israelites gave Joshua son of Nun an inheritance among them;

⁵⁰ at the command of Yahweh, they gave him the city he had asked for, Timnath-serah in the highlands of Ephraim; he rebuilt the city and settled there.

⁵¹ These are the inheritances which Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the heads of each family apportioned by lot among the tribes of Israel at Shiloh, in Yahweh’s presence, at the door of the Tent of Meeting; and thus the apportioning of the land was finished.