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14 The border then went in another direction, turning south from the western side of this mountain and going to Kiriath Baal (or Kiriath Jearim), which belongs to the tribe of Judah. This was the western border. 15 The southern border started on the edge of Kiriath Jearim and went[a] to the Springs of Nephtoah. 16 It then went down to the foot of the mountain that overlooks Hinnom Valley, at the north end of Rephaim Valley. It then went south through Hinnom Valley, south of the Jebusite ridge, toward Enrogel.

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Footnotes

  1. Joshua 18:15 Probable text and went; Hebrew and went westward.

14 From the hill facing Beth Horon(A) on the south the boundary turned south along the western side and came out at Kiriath Baal (that is, Kiriath Jearim),(B) a town of the people of Judah. This was the western side.

15 The southern side began at the outskirts of Kiriath Jearim on the west, and the boundary came out at the spring of the waters of Nephtoah.(C) 16 The boundary went down to the foot of the hill facing the Valley of Ben Hinnom, north of the Valley of Rephaim.(D) It continued down the Hinnom Valley(E) along the southern slope of the Jebusite city and so to En Rogel.(F)

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