¹The whole congregation of the children of Israel assembled themselves together at Shiloh , and set up the Tent of Meeting there . The land was subdued before them .

²Seven tribes remained amongst the children of Israel , which had not yet divided their inheritance .

³Joshua said to the children of Israel , “How long will you neglect to go in to possess the land, which the LORD , the God of your fathers, has given you ?

⁴Appoint for yourselves three men from each tribe . I will send them , and they shall arise , walk through the land , and describe it according to their inheritance ; then they shall come to me .

⁵They shall divide it into seven portions . Judah shall live in his borders on the south , and the house of Joseph shall live in their borders on the north .

⁶You shall survey the land into seven parts , and bring the description here to me ; and I will cast lots for you here before the LORD our God .

⁷However , the Levites have no portion amongst you ; for the priesthood of the LORD is their inheritance . Gad , Reuben , and the half-tribe of Manasseh have received their inheritance east of the Jordan , which Moses the servant of the LORD gave them .”

⁸The men arose and went . Joshua commanded those who went to survey the land , saying, “Go walk through the land , survey it , and come again to me . I will cast lots for you here before the LORD in Shiloh .”

⁹The men went and passed through the land , and surveyed it by cities into seven portions in a book . They came to Joshua to the camp at Shiloh .

¹⁰Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before the LORD . There Joshua divided the land to the children of Israel according to their divisions .

¹¹The lot of the tribe of the children of Benjamin came up according to their families . The border of their lot went out between the children of Judah and the children of Joseph .

¹²Their border on the north quarter was from the Jordan . The border went up to the side of Jericho on the north , and went up through the hill country westward . It ended at the wilderness of Beth Aven.

¹³The border passed along from there to Luz , to the side of Luz (also called Bethel ), southward . The border went down to Ataroth Addar, by the mountain that lies on the south of Beth Horon the lower .

¹⁴The border extended , and turned around on the west quarter southward , from the mountain that lies before Beth Horon southward ; and ended at Kiriath Baal (also called Kiriath Jearim), a city of the children of Judah . This was the west quarter .

¹⁵The south quarter was from the farthest part of Kiriath Jearim. The border went out westward , and went out to the spring of the waters of Nephtoah .

¹⁶The border went down to the farthest part of the mountain that lies before the valley of the son of Hinnom , which is in the valley of Rephaim northward . It went down to the valley of Hinnom , to the side of the Jebusite southward , and went down to En Rogel.

¹⁷It extended northward , went out at En Shemesh, and went out to Geliloth , which is opposite the ascent of Adummim. It went down to the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben .

¹⁸It passed along to the side opposite the Arabah northward , and went down to the Arabah .

¹⁹The border passed along to the side of Beth Hoglah northward ; and the border ended at the north bay of the Salt Sea , at the south end of the Jordan . This was the south border .

²⁰The Jordan was its border on the east quarter . This was the inheritance of the children of Benjamin , by the borders around it , according to their families .

²¹Now the cities of the tribe of the children of Benjamin according to their families were Jericho , Beth Hoglah, Emek Keziz ,

²²Beth Arabah, Zemaraim , Bethel ,

²³Avvim , Parah , Ophrah ,

²⁴Chephar Ammoni, Ophni , and Geba ; twelve cities with their villages .

²⁵Gibeon , Ramah , Beeroth,

²⁶Mizpeh , Chephirah , Mozah ,

²⁷Rekem , Irpeel , Taralah ,

²⁸Zelah , Eleph, the Jebusite (also called Jerusalem ), Gibeath , and Kiriath ; fourteen cities with their villages . This is the inheritance of the children of Benjamin according to their families .