The Land of Benjamin

^11 (A)Now the lot of the tribe of the children of Benjamin came up according to their families, and the territory of their lot came out between the children of Judah and the children of Joseph.

Ephraim and West Manasseh

16 The lot ^[a]fell to the children of Joseph from the Jordan, by Jericho, to the waters of Jericho on the east, to the ^(A)wilderness that goes up from Jericho through the mountains to ^[b]Bethel, ² then went out ^[c]from ^(B)Bethel to Luz, passed along to the border of the Archites at Ataroth, ³ and went down westward to the boundary of the Japhletites, ^(C)as far as the boundary of Lower Beth Horon to ^(D)Gezer; and ^[d]it ended at the sea.

^4 (E)So the children of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, took their ^[e]inheritance.

The Land of Ephraim

^5 (F)The border of the children of Ephraim, according to their families, was thus: The border of their inheritance on the east side was ^(G)Ataroth Addar ^(H)as far as Upper Beth Horon.

⁶ And the border went out toward the sea on the north side of ^(I)Michmethath; then the border went around eastward to Taanath Shiloh, and passed by it on the east of Janohah. ⁷ Then it went down from Janohah to Ataroth and ^[f]Naarah, reached to Jericho, and came out at the Jordan.

⁸ The border went out from ^(J)Tappuah westward to the ^(K)Brook Kanah, and ^[g]it ended at the sea. This was the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Ephraim according to their families. ^9 (L)The separate cities for the children of Ephraim were among the inheritance of the children of Manasseh, all the cities with their villages.

^10 (M)And they did not drive out the Canaanites who dwelt in Gezer; but the Canaanites dwell among the Ephraimites to this day and have become forced laborers.

The Land of Judah

15 So this was the ^[a]lot of the tribe of the children of Judah according to their families:

^(A)The border of Edom at the ^(B)Wilderness of Zin southward was the extreme southern boundary. ² And their ^(C)southern border began at the shore of the Salt Sea, from the bay that faces southward. ³ Then it went out to the southern side of ^(D)the Ascent of Akrabbim, passed along to Zin, ascended on the south side of Kadesh Barnea, passed along to Hezron, went up to Adar, and went around to Karkaa. ⁴ From there it passed ^(E)toward Azmon and went out to the Brook of Egypt; and the border ended at the sea. This shall be your southern border.

⁵ The east border was the Salt Sea as far as the mouth of the Jordan.

And the ^(F)border on the northern quarter began at the bay of the sea at the mouth of the Jordan. ⁶ The border went up to ^(G)Beth Hoglah and passed north of Beth Arabah; and the border went up ^(H)to the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben. ⁷ Then the border went up toward ^(I)Debir from ^(J)the Valley of Achor, and it turned northward toward Gilgal, which is before the Ascent of Adummim, which is on the south side of the valley. The border continued toward the waters of En Shemesh and ended at ^(K)En Rogel. ⁸ And the border went up ^(L)by the Valley of the Son of Hinnom to the southern slope of the ^(M)Jebusite city (which is Jerusalem). The border went up to the top of the mountain that lies before the Valley of Hinnom westward, which is at the end of the Valley ^(N)of ^[b]Rephaim northward.

^12 (A)“If you hear someone in one of your cities, which the Lord your God gives you to dwell in, saying,

The Second Pair of Tablets^(A)

10 “At that time the Lord said to me, ^[a]‘Hew for yourself two tablets of stone like the first, and come up to Me on the mountain and make yourself an ^(B)ark of wood. ² And I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke; and ^(C)you shall put them in the ark.’

³ “So I made an ark of acacia wood, hewed two tablets of stone like the first, and went up the mountain, having the two tablets in my hand. ⁴ And He wrote on the tablets according to the first writing, the Ten ^[b]Commandments, ^(D)which the Lord had spoken to you in the mountain from the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly; and the Lord gave them to me. ⁵ Then I turned and ^(E)came down from the mountain, and ^(F)put the tablets in the ark which I had made; ^(G)and there they are, just as the Lord commanded me.”

⁶ (Now the children of Israel journeyed from the wells of Bene Jaakan to Moserah, where Aaron ^(H)died, and where he was buried; and Eleazar his son ministered as priest in his ^[c]stead. ^7 (I)From there they journeyed to Gudgodah, and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land of ^[d]rivers of water. ⁸ At that time ^(J)the Lord ^[e]separated the tribe of Levi ^(K)to bear the ark of the covenant of the Lord, ^(L)to stand before the Lord to minister to Him and ^(M)to bless in His name, to this day. ^9 (N)Therefore Levi has no portion nor inheritance with his brethren; the Lord is his inheritance, just as the Lord your God promised him.)

¹⁰ “As at the first time, ^(O)I stayed in the mountain forty days and forty nights; ^(P)the Lord also heard me at that time, and the Lord chose not to destroy you. ^11 (Q)Then the Lord said to me, ‘Arise, begin your journey before the people, that they may go in and possess the land which I swore to their fathers to give them.’

The Essence of the Law

¹² “And now, Israel, ^(R)what does the Lord your God require of you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways and to ^(S)love Him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, ¹³ and to keep the commandments of the Lord and His statutes which I command you today ^(T)for your ^[f]good? ¹⁴ Indeed heaven and the highest heavens belong to the ^(U)Lord your God, also the earth with all that is in it. ¹⁵ The Lord delighted only in your fathers, to love them; and He chose their ^[g]descendants after them, you above all peoples, as it is this day. ¹⁶ Therefore circumcise the foreskin of your ^(V)heart, and be ^(W)stiff-necked^[h] no longer. ¹⁷ For the Lord your God is ^(X)God of gods and ^(Y)Lord of lords, the great God, ^(Z)mighty and awesome, who ^(AA)shows no partiality nor takes a bribe. ^18 (AB)He administers justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the stranger, giving him food and clothing. ¹⁹ Therefore love the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt. ^20 (AC)You shall fear the Lord your God; you shall serve Him, and to Him you shall hold fast, and take oaths in His name. ²¹ He is your praise, and He is your God, who has done for you these great and awesome things which your eyes have seen. ²² Your fathers went down to Egypt with seventy persons, and now the Lord your God has made you as the stars of heaven in multitude.