The share of the other tribes
1 The second share of land went to the tribe of Simeon, according to their
clans; their land was encircled by the land of the tribe of Judah.
2 For they had Beer-sheba, Shema, Moladah;
3 Ha zarshual, Balah, Ezem;
4 Elto lad, Bethul, Hor mah;
5 Ziglag, Beth-marcaboth, Hazar-susah;
6 Beth-lebaoth and Sharu hen¡ªthirteen towns and their surrounding villages:
7 Ain, Rimmon, Ether and Ashan¡ªfour towns and their surrounding villages.
8 More over, they were given all the villages lying out side these towns as
far as Ba alath-beer, Ramah of the Negeb. This was the land given to the
tribe of Simeon according to their clans.
9 This land was taken from the territory of Judah, because their share of
these was too large for them; this is why the tribe of Simeon was given land
within the territory of the tribe of Judah.
10 The third share of land went to the tribe of Zebulun according to their
clans; their border reached as far as Sarid.
11 From there the border climbed westward to Maraalah, touching Dabbesheth
first and then the stream east of Jok neam.
12 From Sarid it went eastward toward the sunrise to the border of Chis
loth-tabor, then to Dobrath and to Japhia.
13 From there it continued eastward to Gathhe pher and Ittah-kazin; it came
out at Rim mon and turned toward Neah.
14 On the north the border bent toward Hannathon and ended at the valley of
Iphtahel.
15 It included Kattath, Nahalal, Shimron, Iralah and Bethlehem ¡ªtwelve towns
with their surrounding villages.
16 This was the land received by the tribe of Zebulun according to their
clans: these towns and their surrounding villages.
17 The fourth share of land went to the tribe of Issachar, according to
their clans.
18 Their border reached to Jezreel and included Chesulloth and Shunem;
19 Ha pha raim, Shion, Ana harath;
20 Dob rath, Kishion, Ebez;
21 Remeth and En-gannim, En-haddah and Beth-pazzez.
22 Their border touched Tabor and Sha hazimah and Beth-shemesh, and ended at
the Jordan: sixteen towns with their surrounding villages.
23 This was the land given to the tribe of Issachar, according to their
clans: the towns with their surrounding villages.
24 The fifth share of land went to the tribe of Asher, according to their
clans.
25 Within their territory were Helkath, Hali, Beten, Achshaph,
26 Allammelech, Amad and Mishal; on the west their border touch ed Carmel
and the stream of the Libnath;
27 on the other side it went eastward to Beth-dagon, touching Zebulun and
the Valley of Iphtahel on the way north to Beth-emek and Neiel. It continued
north to Cabul,
28 Abdon, Rehob, Hammon and Kanah as far as Sidon the Great.
29 The border then turned back toward Ramah reaching the fortress city of
Tyre. From there it turned to Hosah and ended at the Mediterranean Sea. It
in cluded Mahalab, Achzib,
30 Acco, Aphek, Rehob: twenty-two towns with their surrounding villages.
31 This was the land given to the tribe of Asher, according to their clans;
these towns with their surrounding villages.
32 The sixth share of land went to the tribe of Naphtali according to their
clans.
33 Their border went from Heleph and the Oak of Zanaannim to Adami-negeb, to
Jab neel as far as Lak kum, and ended at the Jordan.
34 From there the border ran west to Aznoth-tabor and went on to Huk kok,
touching Zebulun on the south, Asher on the west and the Jordan on the east.
35 The fortified towns were Ziddim, Zer, Hammath, Rakkath, Chinnereth;
36 Ada mah, Ramah, Hazor;
37 Kedesh, Edrei, En-hazor;
38 Yiron, Mig dalel, Ho rem, Beth-anath, Beth-she mesh: nineteen towns with
their surrounding villages.
39 This was the land given to the tribe of Naphtali according to their
clans.
40 The seventh share of the land went to the tribe of Dan according to their
clans,
41 Within their territory were Zorah, Eshtaol, Irshemesh;
42 Sha-alabbin, Aija lon, Ithlah;
43 Elon, Tim nah, Ekron,
44 El te keh, Gibbethon,
45 Baalath; Jehud, Bene-berak, Gath rimmon;
46 Mejarkon and Rak kon with the land around Joppa.
47 But the territory of the tribe of Dan was too small for them; and
therefore they went up and attacked Leshem and captured it and killed its
people. Having seized the town they settled in it, and changed the name of
Leshem to Dan after Dan their ancestor.
48 This was the land of the tribe of Dan, according to their clans: these
towns with their surrounding villages.
49 When the Israelites finished distributing the land by drawing lots, they
gave Joshua son of Nun a part of the land as his own;
50 at the command of Yahweh, they gave him the town he had asked for, Tim
nath-serah in the hill country of Eph raim; he rebuilt the city and settled
there.
51 These are the shares of land which Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun,
and the heads of each family divided among the tribes of Israel by drawing
lots at Shiloh, in Yahweh¡¯s presence, at the door of the Tent of Meeting;
and thus they finished dividing the land.