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Simeon

19 The second lot came out for Simeon, for the tribe of the descendants of Simeon, according to their clans. Their inheritance was located within the inheritance of the descendants of Judah.

As their inheritance they received:

Beersheba, Sheba, Moladah, Hazar Shual, Balah, Ezem, Eltolad, Bethul, Hormah, Ziklag, Beth Markaboth, Hazar Susah, Beth Lebaoth, and Sharuhen—thirteen cities and their villages.[a]

Also Ain, Rimmon, Ether, and Ashan—four cities and their villages.

All the villages that are around these cities, as far as Baalath Be’er (which is Ramah of the Negev).

This is the inheritance of the tribe of the descendants of Simeon according to their clans. Part of the share of the descendants of Judah became the inheritance of the descendants of Simeon. Because the portion of the descendants of Judah was too large for them, the descendants of Simeon received an inheritance within Judah’s inheritance.

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Footnotes

  1. Joshua 19:6 There are fourteen cities in the list, if Beersheba and Sheba are counted as two cities.