The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

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Joshua 17:17 (KJV)
And Joshua spake unto the house of Joseph, even to Ephraim and to Manasseh, saying, Thou art a great people, and hast great power: thou shalt not have one lot only:

 

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Joshua 17:18 (NASB)
[SUP]18 [/SUP] but the hill country shall be yours. For though it is a forest, you shall clear it, and to its farthest borders it shall be yours; for you shall drive out the Canaanites, even though they have chariots of iron and though they are strong."

 

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Joshua 18:1
King James Version(KJV)

1.)And the whole congregation of the children of Israel assembled together at Shiloh, and set up the tabernacle of the congregation there. And the land was subdued before them.

 

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Jos 18:2 And there remained among the children of Israel seven tribes, which had not yet received their inheritance.

 

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Joshua 18:3 (NASB)
[SUP]3 [/SUP] So Joshua said to the sons of Israel, "How long will you put off entering to take possession of the land which the LORD, the God of your fathers, has given you?

 

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Joshua 18:4 (ERV)
Appoint for you three men for each tribe: and I will send them, and they shall arise, and walk through the land, and describe it according to their inheritance; and they shall come unto me.

 

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Joshua 18:5 (NASB)
[SUP]5 [/SUP] "They shall divide it into seven portions; Judah shall stay in its territory on the south, and the house of Joseph shall stay in their territory on the north.

 

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Jos 18:6 Ye shall therefore describe the land into seven parts, and bring the description hither to me, that I may cast lots for you here before the LORD our God.

 

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Joshua 18:7
King James Version(KJV)

7.)But the Levites have no part among you; for the priesthood of the LORD is their inheritance: and Gad, and Reuben, and half the tribe of Manasseh, have received their inheritance beyond Jordan on the east, which Moses the servant of the LORD gave them.

 

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Joshua 18:8 (KJV)
And the men arose, and went away: and Joshua charged them that went to describe the land, saying, Go and walk through the land, and describe it, and come again to me, that I may here cast lots for you before the LORD in Shiloh.

 

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Joshua 18:9
New International Version (NIV)

So the men left and went through the land. They wrote its description on a scroll, town by town, in seven parts, and returned to Joshua in the camp at Shiloh.

 

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Joshua 18:10
And Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before the Lord, and there Joshua divided the land to the sons of Israel according to their divisions.

 

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Joshua 18:11 (NASB)
[SUP]11 [/SUP] Now the lot of the tribe of the sons of Benjamin came up according to their families, and the territory of their lot lay between the sons of Judah and the sons of Joseph.

 

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Joshua 18:12
King James Version(KJV)

12.)And their border on the north side was from Jordan; and the border went up to the side of Jericho on the north side, and went up through the mountains westward; and the goings out thereof were at the wilderness of Bethaven.

 

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Joshua 18:13 (KJV)
And the border went over from thence toward Luz, to the side of Luz, which is Bethel, southward; and the border descended to Atarothadar, near the hill that lieth on the south side of the nether Bethhoron.

 

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[FONT=&quot]Joshua 18:14
The border extended [/FONT]from there and turned round on the west side southward, from the hill which lies before Beth-horon southward; and it ended at Kiriath-baal (that is, Kiriath-jearim), a city of the sons of Judah. This was the west side."

 

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Joshua 18:15
King James Version(KJV)

15.)And the south quarter was from the end of Kirjathjearim, and the border went out on the west, and went out to the well of waters of Nephtoah:

 

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Joshua 18.[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif]16 [/FONT]And the border came down to the end of the mountain that lieth before the valley of the son of Hinnom, and which is in the valley of the giants on the north, and descended to the valley of Hinnom, to the side of Jebusi on the south, and descended to Enrogel,

 

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Joshua 18:17 (KJV)
And was drawn from the north, and went forth to Enshemesh, and went forth toward Geliloth, which is over against the going up of Adummim, and descended to the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben,

 

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Joshua 18:18
New International Version (NIV)

It continued to the northern slope of Beth Arabah[a] and on down into the Arabah.

a. Septuagint; Hebrew slope facing the Arabah