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Joshua 16

    ²Then it went from Bethel to Luz and passed on to Ataroth, the border of the Archites.

    ³And it went down westward to the territory of the Japhletites as far as the outskirts of Lower Beth-horon, then to Gezer, and ended at the sea.

    ⁴The descendants of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, received their inheritance.

    ⁵The boundary of the Ephraimites according to their families was thus: on the east side their border was Ataroth-addar as far as Upper Beth-horon.

    ⁶Then the boundary went from there to the sea; on the north was Michmethath; then on the east the boundary went out to Taanath-shiloh, and eastward to Janoah,

    ⁷Then it went down from Janoah to Ataroth and to Naarah, touched Jericho, and ended at the Jordan [River].

    ⁸The border went out from Tappuah westward to the brook Kanah and ended at the [Mediterranean] Sea. This is the inheritance of the Ephraimites by their families,

    ⁹With the towns set apart for the Ephraimites within the inheritance of the Manassites, all those towns with their villages.

    ¹⁰But they did not drive out the Canaanites who dwelt in Gezer; but the Canaanites dwell among the Ephraimites to this day, and they became slaves required to do forced labor.

Joshua 17

    ²Allotment was also made for the other Manassites by their families--for the sons of Abiezer, of Helek, Asriel, Shechem, Hepher, and Shemida, the male offspring of Manasseh son of Joseph by their families.

    ³But Zelophehad son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, had no sons but only daughters; their names were Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.

    ⁴They came before Eleazar the priest and Joshua son of Nun and the leaders and said, The Lord commanded Moses to give us an inheritance with our brethren. So according to the Lord's command, Joshua gave them an inheritance among their father's brethren.

    ⁵So there fell ten portions to Manasseh besides the land of Gilead and Bashan, which is on the other side of the Jordan,

    ⁶Because the [five] daughters of Manasseh received an inheritance among his [five] sons. The land of Gilead belonged to the other [half] of the Manassites.

    ⁷The territory of Manasseh reached from Asher to Michmethah east of Shechem; and the border went along southward to the inhabitants of En-tappuah.

    ⁸The land of Tappuah belonged to Manasseh, but the town of Tappuah on the border of Manasseh belonged to the Ephraimites.

    ⁹Then the boundary went down to the brook Kanah. The cities south of the brook lying among the cities of Manasseh belonged to Ephraim. But Manasseh's boundary went on north of the brook and ended at the sea.

    ¹⁰The land to the south was Ephraim's and that to the north was Manasseh's, and the sea was the boundary; on the north Asher was reached, and on the east Issachar.

    ¹¹Also Manasseh had in Issachar and in Asher [these six towns], their inhabitants and their villages: Beth-shean, Ibleam, Dor, Endor, Taanach, and Megiddo.

    ¹²Yet the sons of Manasseh could not drive out the inhabitants of those cities, but the Canaanites persisted in dwelling in that land.

    ¹³When the Israelites became strong, they put the Canaanites to forced labor but did not utterly drive them out.

    ¹⁴The tribe of Joseph spoke to Joshua, saying, Why have you given [us] but one lot and one portion as an inheritance when [we] are a great [abundant] people, for until now the Lord has blessed [us]?

    ¹⁵Joshua replied, If you are a great people, get up to the forest and clear ground for yourselves in the land of the Perizzites and the Rephaim, since the Ephraim hill country is too narrow for you.

    ¹⁶The Josephites said, The hill country is not enough for us, and all the Canaanites who dwell in the valley have iron chariots, both those in Beth-shean and its villages and in the Valley of Jezreel.

    ¹⁷And Joshua said to the house of Joseph, to Ephraim and to Manasseh, You are a great and numerous people and have great power; you shall not have only one lot

    ¹⁸But the hill country shall be yours; though it is a forest, you shall clear and possess it to its farthest borders; for you shall drive out the Canaanites, though they have iron chariots and are strong.

Joshua 18

    ²And there remained among the Israelites seven tribes who had not yet divided their inheritance.

    ³Joshua asked the Israelites, How long will you be slack to go in and possess the land which the Lord, the God of your fathers, has given you?

    ⁴Provide three men from each tribe, and I will send them to go through the land and write a description of it according to their [tribal] inheritances; then they shall return to me.

    ⁵And they shall divide it into seven parts. Judah shall remain in its territory on the south and the house of Joseph shall remain in its territory on the north.

    ⁶You shall describe the land in seven divisions, and bring the description here to me, that I may cast lots for you here before the Lord our God.

    ⁷But the Levites have no portion among you, for the priesthood of the Lord is their inheritance. Gad and Reuben and half the tribe of Manasseh have received their inheritance east of the Jordan, which Moses the servant of the Lord gave them.

    ⁸So the men arose and went, and Joshua charged them saying, Go and walk through the land and describe it and come again to me, and I will cast lots for you here before the Lord in Shiloh.

    ⁹And the men went and passed through the land and described it by cities in seven portions in a book; and they came again to Joshua to the camp at Shiloh.

    ¹⁰Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before the Lord, and there [he] divided the land to the Israelites, to each [tribe] his portion.

    ¹¹And the lot of the Benjamites came up according to their families; and the territory of their lot fell between the tribes of Judah and Joseph.

    ¹²On the north side their boundary began at the Jordan; then it went up to the shoulder of Jericho on the north and up through the hill country westward and ended at the Beth-aven wilderness.

    ¹³Then the boundary passed over southward toward Luz, to the shoulder of Luz (that is, Bethel); then it went down to Ataroth-addar by the mountain that lies south of Lower Beth-horon.

    ¹⁴The boundary extended from there, and turning about on the western side southward from the mountain that lies to the south opposite Beth-horon, it ended at Kiriath-baal (that is, Kiriath-jearim), a city of the tribe of Judah. This formed the western side [of Benjamin's territory].

    ¹⁵The southern side began at the edge of Kiriath-jearim, and the boundary went on westward to the spring of the waters of Nephtoah.

    ¹⁶Then the boundary went down to the edge of the mountain overlooking the Valley of Ben-hinnom [son of Hinnom], which is at the north end of the Valley of Rephaim; and it descended to the Valley of Hinnom, south of the shoulder of the Jebusites, and went on down to En-rogel.

    ¹⁷Then it bent toward the north and went on to En-shemesh and on to Geliloth, which was opposite the ascent of Adummim, and went down to the Stone of Bohan son of Reuben.

    ¹⁸And it went on to the north of the shoulder [of Beth]-Arabah and down to the Arabah.

    ¹⁹Then the boundary passed along to the north of the shoulder of Beth-hoglah and ended at the northern bay of the Salt [Dead] Sea, at the south end of the Jordan. This was the southern border.

    ²⁰And the Jordan was its boundary on the east side. This was the inheritance of the sons of Benjamin by their boundaries round about, according to their families.

    ²¹Now the cities of the tribe of Benjamin according to [their] families were: Jericho, Beth-hoglah, Emek-keziz,

    ²²Beth-arabah, Zemaraim, Bethel,

    ²³Avvim, Parah, Ophrah,

    ²⁴Chephar-ammoni, Ophni, and Geba; twelve cities with their villages;

    ²⁵Gibeon, Ramah, Beeroth,

    ²⁶Mizpah, Chephirah, Mozah,

    ²⁷Rekem, Irpeel, Taralah,

    ²⁸Zelah, Haeleph, the Jebusite [city]--that is, Jerusalem--Gibeah, and Kiriath-[jearim]; fourteen cities with their villages. This is the inheritance of the tribe of Benjamin according to their families.

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Luke 2

    ²This was the first enrollment, and it was made when Quirinius was governor of Syria.

    ³And all the people were going to be registered, each to his own city or town.

    ⁴And Joseph also went up from Galilee from the town of Nazareth to Judea, to the town of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and family of David,

    ⁵To be enrolled with Mary, his espoused (^[b]married) wife, who was about to become a mother.^(A)

    ⁶And while they were there, the time came for her delivery,

    ⁷And she gave birth to her Son, her Firstborn; and she wrapped Him in swaddling clothes and laid Him in a manger, because there was no room or place for them in the inn.

    ⁸And in that vicinity there were shepherds living [out under the open sky] in the field, watching [in shifts] over their flock by night.

    ⁹And behold, an angel of the Lord stood by them, and the glory of the Lord flashed and shone all about them, and they were terribly frightened.

    ¹⁰But the angel said to them, Do not be afraid; for behold, I bring you good news of a great joy which will come to all the people.

    ¹¹For to you is born this day in the town of David a Savior, Who is Christ (the Messiah) the Lord!^(B)

    ¹²And this will be a sign for you [by which you will recognize Him]: you will find [^[c]after searching] a Baby wrapped in swaddling clothes and lying in a manger. [I Sam. 2:34; II Kings 19:29; Isa. 7:14.]

    ¹³Then suddenly there appeared with the angel an army of the troops of heaven (^[d]a heavenly knighthood), praising God and saying,

    ¹⁴Glory to God in the highest [heaven], and on earth peace among men with whom He is well pleased [^[e]men of goodwill, of His favor].

    ¹⁵When the angels went away from them into heaven, the shepherds said one to another, Let us go over to Bethlehem and see this thing (^[f]saying) that has come to pass, which the Lord has made known to us.

    ¹⁶So they went with haste and [^[g]by searching] found Mary and Joseph, and the Baby lying in a manger.

    ¹⁷And when they saw it, they made known what had been told them concerning this Child,

    ¹⁸And all who heard it were astounded and marveled at what the shepherds told them.

    ¹⁹But Mary was keeping ^[h]within herself all these things (^[i]sayings), weighing and pondering them in her heart.

    ²⁰And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things they had heard and seen, just as it had been told them.

    ²¹And at the end of eight days, when [the Baby] was to be circumcised, He was called Jesus, the name given by the angel before He was conceived in the womb.

    ²²And when the time for their purification [the mother's purification and the Baby's dedication] came according to the Law of Moses, they brought Him up to Jerusalem to present Him to the Lord--^(C)

    ²³As it is written in the Law of the Lord, Every [firstborn] male that opens the womb shall be set apart and dedicated and called holy to the Lord--^(D)

    ²⁴And [they came also] to offer a sacrifice according to what is said in the Law of the Lord: a pair of turtledoves or two young pigeons.^(E)