New English Translation

Joshua 18:9-15 New English Translation (NET)

9. The men journeyed through the land and mapped it and its cities out into seven regions on a scroll. Then they came to Joshua at the camp in Shiloh.

10. Joshua drew lots for them in Shiloh before the Lord and divided the land among the Israelites according to their allotted portions.

11. The first lot belonged to the tribe of Benjamin by its clans. Their allotted territory was between Judah and Joseph.

12. Their northern border started at the Jordan, went up to the slope of Jericho on the north, ascended westward to the hill country, and extended to the desert of Beth Aven.

13. It then crossed from there to Luz, to the slope of Luz to the south (that is, Bethel), and descended to Ataroth Addar located on the hill that is south of lower Beth Horon.

14. It then turned on the west side southward from the hill near Beth Horon on the south and extended to Kiriath Baal (that is, Kiriath Jearim), a city belonging to the tribe of Judah. This is the western border.

15. The southern side started on the edge of Kiriath Jearim and extended westward to the spring of the waters of Nephtoah.