Verse 8
Joshua 18:8
Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition
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For the Levites have no part among you, but the priesthood of the Lord is their inheritance. And Gad and Ruben, and the half tribe of Manasses have already received their possessions beyond the Jordan eastward: which Moses the servant of the Lord gave them.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יָּקֻ֥מוּ הָ/אֲנָשִׁ֖ים וַ/יֵּלֵ֑כוּ וַ/יְצַ֣ו יְהוֹשֻׁ֡עַ אֶת הַ/הֹלְכִים֩ לִ/כְתֹּ֨ב אֶת הָ/אָ֜רֶץ לֵ/אמֹ֗ר לְ֠כוּ וְ/הִתְהַלְּכ֨וּ בָ/אָ֜רֶץ וְ/כִתְב֤וּ אוֹתָ/הּ֙ וְ/שׁ֣וּבוּ אֵלַ֔/י וּ֠/פֹה אַשְׁלִ֨יךְ לָ/כֶ֥ם גּוֹרָ֛ל לִ/פְנֵ֥י יְהוָ֖ה בְּ/שִׁלֹֽה
English Translation
And the men got up and went, and Joshua commanded those who were going to write the land, saying, "Go and walk through the land and write it down, and return to me, and I will cast lots for you before the Lord in Shiloh."
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Chapter 18 Context
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And all the children of Israel assembled together in Silo, and there they set up the tabernacle of t...
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But there remained seven tribes of the children of Israel, which as yet had not received their posse...
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And Josue said to them: How long are you indolent and slack, and go not in to possess the land which...
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Choose of every tribe three men, that I may send them, and they may go and compass the land, and mar...
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Divide to yourselves the land into seven parts: let Juda be in his bounds on the south side, and the...
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The land in the midst between these mark ye out into seven parts; and you shall come hither to me, t...
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For the Levites have no part among you, but the priesthood of the Lord is their inheritance. And Gad...
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And when the men were risen up, to go to mark out the land, Josue commanded them, saying: Go round t...
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So they went: and surveying it divided it into seven parts, writing them down in a book. And they re...
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And he cast lots before the Lord in Silo, and divided the land to the children of Israel into seven...
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And first came up the lot of the children of Benjamin by their families, to possess the land between...
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And their border northward was from the Jordan: going along by the side of Jericho on the north side...
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And passing along southward by Luza, the same is Bethel: and it goeth down into Ataroth-addar to the...
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And it bendeth thence going round towards the sea, south of the mountain that looketh towards Beth-h...
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But on the south side the border goeth out from part of Cariathiarim towards the sea, and cometh to...
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And it goeth down to that part of the mountain that looketh on the valley of the children of Ennom:...
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Passing thence to the north, and going out to Ensemes, that is to say, the fountain of the sue:
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And it passeth along to the hills that are over against the ascent of Adommim: and it goeth down to...
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And it passeth by Bethhagla northward: and the outgoings thereof are towards the north of the most s...
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Which is the border of it on the east side. This is the possession of the children of Benjamin by th...
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Betharaba and Samaraim and Bethel,
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And Avim and Aphara and Ophera,
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The town Emona and Ophni and Gabee: twelve cities, and their villages.
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Gabam and Rama and Beroth,
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,26And Mesphe, and Caphara, and Amosa,
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And Recem, Jarephel and Tharela,
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And Sela, Eleph and Jebus, which is Jerusalem, Gabaath and Cariath: fourteen cities, and their villa...
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