你们每支派当选举三个人,我要打发他们去,他们就要起身走遍那地,按着各支派应得的地业写明(或作画图),就回到我这里来。
Give out from among you three men for each tribe: and I will send them, and they shall rise, and go through the land, and describe it according to the inheritance of them; and they shall come again to me.
他们要将地分作七分。犹大仍在南方,住在他的境内。约瑟家仍在北方,住在他的境内。
And they shall divide it into seven parts: Judah shall abide in their coast on the south, and the house of Joseph shall abide in their coasts on the north.
你们要将地分作七分,写明了拿到我这里来。我要在耶和华我们神面前,为你们拈阄。
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.
利未人在你们中间没有分,因为供耶和华祭司的职任就是他们的产业。迦得支派,流便支派,和玛拿西半支派已经在约旦河东得了地业,就是耶和华仆人摩西所给他们的。
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.
他们就去了,走遍那地,按着城邑分作七分,写在册子上,回到示罗营中见约书亚。
And the men went and passed through the land, and described it by cities into seven parts in a book, and came again to Joshua to the host at Shiloh.
便雅悯支派,按着宗族拈阄所得之地,是在犹大,约瑟子孙中间。
And the lot of the tribe of the children of Benjamin came up according to their families: and the coast of their lot came forth between the children of Judah and the children of Joseph.
他们的北界是从约旦河起,往上贴近耶利哥的北边。又往西通过山地,直到伯亚文的旷野。
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.
从那里往西,又转向南,从伯和仑南对面的山,直达到犹大人的城基列巴力(基列巴力就是基列耶琳)。这是西界。
And the border was drawn thence, and compassed the corner of the sea southward, from the hill that lieth before Bethhoron southward; and the goings out thereof were at Kirjathbaal, which is Kirjathjearim, a city of the children of Judah: this was the west quarter.
亚文,巴拉,俄弗拉,
And Avim, and Parah, and Ophrah,
洗拉,以利弗,耶布斯(耶布斯就是耶路撒冷),基比亚,基列,共十四座城,还有属城的村庄。这是便雅悯人按着宗族所得的地业。
And Zelah, Eleph, and Jebusi, which is Jerusalem, Gibeath, and Kirjath; fourteen cities with their villages. This is the inheritance of the children of Benjamin according to their families.