¹The second lot came out for Simeon , even for the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families . Their inheritance was in the middle of the inheritance of the children of Judah .

²They had for their inheritance Beersheba (or Sheba ), Moladah ,

³Hazar Shual, Balah , Ezem ,

⁴Eltolad, Bethul , Hormah ,

⁵Ziklag , Beth Marcaboth, Hazar Susah,

⁶Beth Lebaoth, and Sharuhen ; thirteen cities with their villages ;

⁷Ain , Rimmon , Ether , and Ashan ; four cities with their villages ;

⁸and all the villages that were around these cities to Baalath Beer, Ramah of the South . This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families .

⁹Out of the part of the children of Judah was the inheritance of the children of Simeon ; for the portion of the children of Judah was too much for them . Therefore the children of Simeon had inheritance in the middle of their inheritance .

¹⁰The third lot came up for the children of Zebulun according to their families . The border of their inheritance was to Sarid .

¹¹Their border went up westward , even to Maralah , and reached to Dabbesheth . It reached to the brook that is before Jokneam .

¹²It turned from Sarid eastward towards the sunrise to the border of Chisloth Tabor. It went out to Daberath , and went up to Japhia .

¹³From there it passed along eastward to Gath Hepher, to Ethkazin; and it went out at Rimmon which stretches to Neah .

¹⁴The border turned around it on the north to Hannathon ; and it ended at the valley of Iphtah El;

¹⁵Kattath , Nahalal , Shimron , Idalah , and Bethlehem : twelve cities with their villages .

¹⁶This is the inheritance of the children of Zebulun according to their families , these cities with their villages .

¹⁷The fourth lot came out for Issachar , even for the children of Issachar according to their families .

¹⁸Their border was to Jezreel , Chesulloth , Shunem ,

¹⁹Hapharaim , Shion , Anaharath,

²⁰Rabbith , Kishion , Ebez,

²¹Remeth , Engannim, En Haddah, and Beth Pazzez.

²²The border reached to Tabor , Shahazumah , and Beth Shemesh. Their border ended at the Jordan : sixteen cities with their villages .

²³This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Issachar according to their families , the cities with their villages .

²⁴The fifth lot came out for the tribe of the children of Asher according to their families .

²⁵Their border was Helkath , Hali , Beten, Achshaph,

²⁶Allammelech, Amad , Mishal . It reached to Carmel westward , and to Shihorlibnath.

²⁷It turned towards the sunrise to Beth Dagon, and reached to Zebulun , and to the valley of Iphtah El northward to Beth Emek and Neiel . It went out to Cabul on the left hand ,

²⁸and Ebron , Rehob , Hammon , and Kanah , even to great Sidon .

²⁹The border turned to Ramah , to the fortified city of Tyre ; and the border turned to Hosah . It ended at the sea by the region of Achzib;

³⁰Ummah also, and Aphek, and Rehob : twenty-two cities with their villages .

³¹This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Asher according to their families , these cities with their villages .

³²The sixth lot came out for the children of Naphtali , even for the children of Naphtali according to their families .

³³Their border was from Heleph , from the oak in Zaanannim , Adami-nekeb, and Jabneel , to Lakkum . It ended at the Jordan .

³⁴The border turned westward to Aznoth Tabor, and went out from there to Hukkok . It reached to Zebulun on the south , and reached to Asher on the west , and to Judah at the Jordan towards the sunrise .

³⁵The fortified cities were Ziddim , Zer , Hammath , Rakkath , Chinnereth ,

³⁶Adamah, Ramah , Hazor ,

³⁷Kedesh , Edrei, En Hazor,

³⁸Iron , Migdal El, Horem , Beth Anath, and Beth Shemesh; nineteen cities with their villages .

³⁹This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Naphtali according to their families , the cities with their villages .

⁴⁰The seventh lot came out for the tribe of the children of Dan according to their families .

⁴¹The border of their inheritance was Zorah , Eshtaol, Irshemesh,

⁴²Shaalabbin , Aijalon, Ithlah ,

⁴³Elon, Timnah , Ekron ,

⁴⁴Eltekeh, Gibbethon , Baalath ,

⁴⁵Jehud , Bene Berak, Gath Rimmon,

⁴⁶Me Jarkon, and Rakkon , with the border opposite Joppa .

⁴⁷The border of the children of Dan went out beyond them ; for the children of Dan went up and fought against Leshem , and took it , and struck it with the edge of the sword , and possessed it , and lived therein , and called Leshem , Dan , after the name of Dan their forefather.

⁴⁸This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Dan according to their families , these cities with their villages .

⁴⁹So they finished distributing the land for inheritance by its borders . The children of Israel gave an inheritance to Joshua the son of Nun amongst them .

⁵⁰According to the LORD ’s commandment , they gave him the city which he asked , even Timnathserah in the hill country of Ephraim; and he built the city , and lived there .

⁵¹These are the inheritances , which Eleazar the priest , Joshua the son of Nun , and the heads of the fathers’ houses of the tribes of the children of Israel , distributed for inheritance by lot in Shiloh before the LORD , at the door of the Tent of Meeting . So they finished dividing the land .