And Chephar-Ammoni and Ophni and Geba; twelve towns with their unwalled places;

Gibeon and Ramah and Beeroth

And Mizpeh and Chephirah and Mozah

And Rekem and Irpeel and Taralah

And Zela, Eleph and the Jebusite (which is Jerusalem), Gibeath and Kiriath; fourteen towns with their unwalled places. This is the heritage of the children of Benjamin by their families.

And the second heritage came out for the tribe of Simeon by their families; and their heritage was in the middle of the heritage of the children of Judah.

And they had for their heritage Beer-sheba and Shema and Moladah

And Hazar-shual and Balah and Ezem

And Eltolad and Bethul and Hormah

And Ziklag and Beth-marcaboth and Hazar-susah

And Beth-lebaoth and Sharuhen; thirteen towns with their unwalled places;

Ain, Rimmon, and Ether and Ashan; four towns with their unwalled places;

And all the unwalled places round about these towns as far as Baalath-beer-ramah to the south. This is the heritage of the tribe of Simeon by their families.

And the third heritage came out for Zebulun by their families; the limit of their heritage was as far as Sarid;

And their limit goes up to the west to Maralah, stretching to Dabbesheth, and to the stream in front of Jokneam;

Then turning east from Sarid to the limit of Chisloth-tabor, it goes out to Daberath, and up to Japhia;

And from there it goes on east to Gath-hepher, to Eth-kazin; ending at Rimmon which goes as far as Neah;

And the line goes round it on the north to Hannathon, ending at the valley of Iphtah-el;

And Kattath and Nahalal and Shimron and Idalah and Beth-lehem; twelve towns with their unwalled places.

And their limit was to Jezreel and Chesulloth and Shunem

And Hapharaim and Shion and Anaharath

And Rabbith and Kishion and Ebez

And Remeth and En-gannim and En-haddah and Beth-pazzez;

And their limit goes as far as Tabor and Shahazimah and Beth-shemesh, ending at Jordan; sixteen towns with their unwalled places.

And the fifth heritage came out for the tribe of Asher by their families.

And their limit was Helkath and Hali and Beten and Achshaph

And Alammelech and Amad and Mishal, stretching to Carmel on the west and Shihor-libnath;

Turning to the east to Beth-dagon and stretching to Zebulun and the valley of Iphtah-el as far as Beth-emek and Neiel to the north; on the left it goes as far as Cabul

And Ebron and Rehob and Hammon and Kanah, to great Zidon;

And the limit goes round to Ramah and the walled town of Tyre and Hosah, ending at the sea by Heleb and Achzib;

And Ummah and Aphek and Rehob; twenty-two towns with their unwalled places.

And their limit was from Heleph, from the oak-tree in Zaanannim, and Adami-hannekeb and Jabneel, as far as Lakkum, ending at Jordan;

And turning west to Aznoth-tabor, the limit goes out from there to Hukkok, stretching to Zebulun on the south, and Asher on the west, and Judah at Jordan on the east.

And the walled towns are Ziddim, Zer, and Hammath, Rakkath, and Chinnereth

And Adamah and Ramah and Hazor

And Kedesh and Edrei and En-Hazor

And Iron and Migdal-el, Horem and Beth-anath and Beth-shemesh; nineteen towns with their unwalled places.

And the limit of their heritage was Zorah and Eshtaol and Ir-shemesh

And Shaalabbin and Aijalon and Ithlah

And Elon and Timnah and Ekron

And Eltekeh and Gibbethon and Baalath

And Jehud and Bene-berak and Gath-rimmon;

And on the west was ... opposite Joppa.

(But the limit of the children of Dan was not wide enough for them; so the children of Dan went up and made war on Leshem and took it, putting it to the sword without mercy, and they took it for their heritage and made a place for themselves there, giving it the name of Leshem-dan, after the name of their father, Dan.)

So the distribution of the land and its limits was complete; and the children of Israel gave Joshua, the son of Nun, a heritage among them;

These are the heritages which Eleazar the priest and Joshua, the son of Nun, and the heads of families of the tribes of the children of Israel gave out at Shiloh, by the decision of the Lord, at the door of the Tent of meeting. So the distribution of the land was complete.

And the Lord said to Joshua,

So that any man who in error and without design has taken the life of another, may go in flight to them: and they will be safe places for you from him who has the right of punishment for blood.

And if anyone goes in flight to one of those towns, and comes into the public place of the town, and puts his cause before the responsible men of the town, they will take him into the town and give him a place among them where he may be safe.

And if the one who has the right of punishment comes after him, they are not to give the taker of life up to him; because he was the cause of his neighbour's death without designing it and not in hate.

And he is to go on living in that town till he has to come before the meeting of the people to be judged; (till the death of him who is high priest at that time:) then the taker of life may come back to his town and to his house, to the town from which he had gone in flight.

So they made selection of Kedesh in Galilee in the hill-country of Naphtali, and Shechem in the hill-country of Ephraim, and Kiriath-arba (which is Hebron) in the hill-country of Judah.

And on the east side of Jordan at Jericho, they made selection of Bezer in the waste land, in the table-land, out of the tribe of Reuben, and Ramoth in Gilead out of the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan out of the tribe of Manasseh.

These were the towns marked out for all the children of Israel and for the man from a strange country living among them, so that anyone causing the death of another in error, might go in flight there, and not be put to death by him who has the right of punishment for blood till he had come before the meeting of the people.

Then the heads of the families of the Levites came to Eleazar the priest and Joshua, the son of Nun, and to the heads of families of the tribes of the children of Israel;

And said to them in Shiloh in the land of Canaan, The Lord gave orders by Moses that we were to have towns for living in, with their grass-lands for our cattle.

And the children of Israel out of their heritage gave to the Levites these towns with their grass-lands, by the order of the Lord.

And the heritage came out for the families of the Kohathites: the children of Aaron the priest, who were of the Levites, were given thirteen towns from the tribes of Judah, Simeon, and Benjamin.

The rest of the children of Kohath by their families were given ten towns from the tribes of Ephraim and Dan and the half-tribe of Manasseh.

The children of Gershon by their families were given thirteen towns from the tribes of Issachar and Asher and Naphtali and the half-tribe of Manasseh which was in Bashan.

The children of Merari by their families were given twelve towns from the tribes of Reuben and Gad and Zebulun.

From the tribes of the children of Judah and the children of Simeon they gave these towns, listed here by name:

But the open country round the town, and its unwalled places, they gave to Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, as his property.

And to the children of Aaron the priest they gave Hebron with its grass-lands, the town where the taker of life might be safe, and Libnah with its grass-lands;

And Jattir with its grass-lands, and Eshtemoa with its grass-lands;

And Holon with its grass-lands, and Debir with its grass-lands;

And Ain, and Juttah, and Beth-shemesh, with their grass-lands; nine towns from those two tribes.

And from the tribe of Benjamin they gave Gibeon and Geba with their grass-lands;

Anathoth and Almon with their grass-lands, four towns.

And they gave them Shechem with its grass-lands in the hill-country of Ephraim, the town where the taker of life might be safe, and Gezer with its grass-lands;

And Kibzaim and Beth-horon with their grass-lands, four towns.

And from the tribe of Dan, Elteke and Gibbethon with their grass-lands;

Aijalon and Gath-rimmon with their grass-lands, four towns.

And from the half-tribe of Manasseh, Taanach and Gath-rimmon with their grass-lands, two towns.

And to the children of Gershon, of the families of the Levites, they gave from the half-tribe of Manasseh, Golan in Bashan with its grass-lands, the town where the taker of life might be safe, and Ashtaroth with its grass-lands, two towns.

And from the tribe of Issachar, Kishion and Daberath with their grass-lands;

Jarmuth and En-gannim with their grass-lands, four towns.

And from the tribe of Asher, Mishal and Abdon, with their grass-lands:

Helkath and Rehob with their grass-lands, four towns.

And from the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee with its grass-lands, the town where the taker of life might be safe, and Hammoth-dor and Kartan with their grass-lands, three towns.

And to the rest of the Levites, that is, the families of the children of Merari, they gave from the tribe of Zebulun, Jokneam and Kartah with their grass-lands;

Dimnah and Nahalal with their grass-lands, four towns.

And from the tribe of Reuben, Bezer and Jahaz with their grass-lands;

Kedemoth and Mephaath with their grass-lands, four towns.

And from the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead, the town where the taker of life might be safe, and Mahanaim with their grass-lands;

Heshbon and Jazer with their grass-lands, four towns.

All these towns were given to the children of Merari by their families, that is, the rest of the families of the Levites; and their heritage was twelve towns.

So the Lord gave to Israel all the land which he gave by oath to their fathers; so it became their heritage and their living-place.

And the Lord gave them peace on every side, as he had said to their fathers: all those who were against them gave way before them, for the Lord gave them all up into their hands.

The Lord kept faith with the house of Israel about all the good which he said he would do for them, and all his words came true.

Then Joshua sent for the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh,

And said to them, You have kept all the orders of Moses, the Lord's servant, and have done everything I gave you orders to do:

And now the Lord your God has given your brothers rest, as he said: so now you may go back to your tents, to the land of your heritage, which Moses, the Lord's servant, gave to you on the other side of Jordan.

Only take great care to do the orders and the law which Moses, the Lord's servant, gave you; to have love for the Lord your God and to go in all his ways; and to keep his laws and to be true to him and to be his servants with all your heart and with all your soul.

Then Joshua gave them his blessing and sent them away: and they went back to their tents.

And said to them, Go back with much wealth to your tents, and with very much cattle, with silver and gold and brass and iron, and with a very great store of clothing; give your brothers a part of the goods taken in the war.

So Reuben and Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh went back, parting from the children of Israel at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, to go to the land of Gilead, to the land of their heritage which had been given to them by the Lord's order to Moses.

Now when they came to the country by Jordan in the land of Canaan, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh put up there, by Jordan, a great altar, seen from far.

And news came to the children of Israel, See, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh have put up an altar opposite the land of Canaan, in the country by Jordan on the side which is Israel's.

And the children of Israel sent Phinehas, the son of Eleazar the priest, to the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh, to the land of Gilead,