1. Then all the people of Israel gathered together at Shiloh. They set up the tent of meeting there. The land around them had been taken in battle.
2. There were still seven family groups among the people of Israel who had not received their share of land.
3. So Joshua said to the people of Israel, "How long will you wait before going in to take the land the Lord, the God of your fathers, has given you?
4. Choose three men from each of these seven family groups. I will send them to go through the land and write down what they find it to be like, to be shared by each family. Then they will return to me.
5. They will divide it into seven parts. Judah will stay in his land in the south. The house of Joseph will stay in their land in the north.
6. You will write down how the land should be divided into seven parts, then bring it to me. I will draw names for you here before the Lord our God.
7. The Levites have no share of land among you. Being the religious leaders for the Lord is their share. Gad and Reuben and the halffamily group of Manasseh have received their land east of the Jordan. The Lord's servant Moses gave it to them."
8. As the men got up to go, Joshua told them, "Go and walk through the land. Write down what you find, and return to me. Then I will draw names for you here before the Lord in Shiloh."
9. The men went and passed through the land. They wrote in a book the cities they found and divided them into seven parts. Then they returned to Joshua among the tents at Shiloh.
10. Joshua drew names for them in Shiloh before the Lord. There he divided the land among the people of Israel, a part for each family.
11. The first name drawn was for the families of the people of Benjamin. The share of their land was between the people of Judah and the people of Joseph.
12. The north side of their land was from the Jordan up to the north side of Jericho. Then it went west through the hill country, ending at the desert of Beth-aven.
13. The side of their land went from there south to the side of Luz (that is, Bethel). Then it went down to Ataroth-addar, near the hill south of the valley land of Beth-horon.
14. The side of their land turned west from there around the south side of the hill before Bethhoron. It ended at Kiriath-baal (that is, Kiriath-jearim), a city of the people of Judah. This was the west side.
15. The south side was from the side of Kiriath-jearim west to the well of the waters of Nephtoah.
16. Then the side of their land went down to the side of the hill in the valley of Ben-Hinnom, at the north end of the valley of Rephaim. It went down to the valley of Hinnom, south of the side of the Jebusites, and down to En-rogel.
17. Then it went north to En-shemesh and on to Geliloth by the hill of Adummim, then down to the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben.
18. It went on to the north side of Beth-arabah, and down to the Arabah.
19. Then the side of their land went along the north side of Beth-hoglah. And it ended at the north waters of the Salt Sea at the south end of the Jordan. This was the south side.
20. The east side of their land was the Jordan. This was the land with its sides, given to the family group of Benjamin.
21. The cities of the people of Benjamin for their families were Jericho, Beth-hoglah, Emek-keziz,
22. Betharabah, Zemaraim, Bethel,
23. Avvim, Parah, Ophrah,
24. Chephar-ammoni, Ophni, and Geba, twelve cities with their towns.
25. And there were Gibeon, Ramah, Beeroth,
26. Mizpeh, Chephirah, Mozah,
27. Rekem, Irpeel, Taralah,
28. Zelah, Haeleph, the Jebusite (that is, Jerusalem), Gibeah, and Kiriath, fourteen cities with their towns. This is the land that was given to the families of the people of Benjamin.