³⁷ Now it occurred the next day, when they had come down from the mountain, that a great multitude met Him.

³⁸ And behold, a man from the crowd shouted out, Master, I implore You to look at my son, for he is my only child;

³⁹ And behold, a spirit seizes him and suddenly he cries out; it convulses him so that he foams at the mouth; and he is sorely shattered, and it will scarcely leave him.

⁴⁰ And I implored Your disciples to drive it out, but they could not.

⁴¹ Jesus answered, O [faithless ones] unbelieving and without trust in God, a perverse (^[a]wayward, ^[b]crooked and ^[c]warped) generation! Until when and how long am I to be with you and bear with you? Bring your son here [to Me].

⁴² And even while he was coming, the demon threw him down and [completely] convulsed him. But Jesus censured and severely rebuked the unclean spirit and healed the child and restored him to his father.

⁴³ And all were astounded at the evidence of God’s mighty power and His majesty and magnificence. But [while] they were all marveling at everything Jesus was doing, He said to His disciples,

⁴⁴ Let these words sink into your ears: the Son of Man is about to be delivered into the hands of men [^[d]whose conduct is opposed to God].

⁴⁵ However, they did not comprehend this saying; and it was kept hidden from them, so that they should not grasp it and understand, and they were afraid to ask Him about the statement.

⁴⁶ But a controversy arose among them as to which of them might be the greatest [surpassing the others in excellence, worth, and authority].

⁴⁷ But Jesus, as He perceived the thoughts of their hearts, took a little child and put him at His side

⁴⁸ And told them, Whoever receives and accepts and welcomes this child in My name and for My sake receives and accepts and welcomes Me; and whoever so receives Me so also receives Him Who sent Me. For he who is least and lowliest among you all—he is [the one who is truly] great.

⁴⁹ John said, Master, we saw a man driving out demons in Your name and we commanded him to stop it, for he does not follow along with us.

⁵⁰ But Jesus told him, Do not forbid [such people]; for whoever is not against you is for you.

⁵¹ Now when the time was almost come for Jesus to be received up [to heaven], He steadfastly and determinedly set His face to go to Jerusalem.

⁵² And He sent messengers before Him; and they reached and entered a Samaritan village to make [things] ready for Him;

⁵³ But [the people] would not welcome or receive or accept Him, because His face was [set as if He was] going to Jerusalem.

⁵⁴ And when His disciples James and John observed this, they said, Lord, do You wish us to command fire to come down from heaven and consume them, ^[e]even as Elijah did?^(A)

⁵⁵ But He turned and rebuked and severely censured them. ^[f]He said, You do not know of what sort of spirit you are,

⁵⁶ For the Son of Man did not come to destroy men’s lives, but to save them ^[g][from the penalty of eternal death]. And they journeyed on to another village.

⁵⁷ And it occurred that as they were going along the road, a man said to Him, Lord, I will follow You wherever You go.

⁵⁸ And Jesus told him, Foxes have lurking holes and the birds of the air have roosts and nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay His head.

⁵⁹ And He said to another, ^[h]Become My disciple, side with My party, and accompany Me! But he replied, Lord, permit me first to go and bury (^[i]await the death of) my father.

⁶⁰ But Jesus said to him, Allow the dead to bury their own dead; but as for you, go and publish abroad ^[j]throughout all regions the kingdom of God.

⁶¹ Another also said, I will follow You, Lord, and become Your disciple and side with Your party; but let me first say good-bye to those at my home.

⁶² Jesus said to him, No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back [to the things behind] is fit for the kingdom of God.

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16 The allotment for the people of Joseph went from the Jordan by Jericho, east of the waters of Jericho, into the wilderness, going up from Jericho into the hill country to Bethel;

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

³ And 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.

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

⁵ The 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.

⁶ Then 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,

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

⁸ The 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,

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

¹⁰ But 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.

17 Allotment was made for the tribe of Manasseh, for he was the firstborn of Joseph. To Machir the firstborn of Manasseh, the father of Gilead, were allotted Gilead and Bashan because he was a man of war.

² Allotment 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.

³ But 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.

⁴ They 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.

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

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

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

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

⁹ Then 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.

¹⁰ The 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.

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

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

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

¹⁴ The 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]?

¹⁵ Joshua 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.

¹⁶ The 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.

¹⁷ And 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

¹⁸ But 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.

18 And the whole congregation of the Israelites assembled at Shiloh and set up the Tent of Meeting there; and the land was subdued before them.

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

³ Joshua 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?

⁴ Provide 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.

⁵ And 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.

⁶ You 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.

⁷ But 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.

⁸ So 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.

⁹ And 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.

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

¹¹ And 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.

¹² On 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.

¹³ Then 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.

¹⁴ The 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].

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

¹⁶ Then 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.

¹⁷ Then 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.

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

¹⁹ Then 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.

²⁰ And 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.

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

²² Beth-arabah, Zemaraim, Bethel,

²³ Avvim, Parah, Ophrah,

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

²⁵ Gibeon, Ramah, Beeroth,

²⁶ Mizpah, Chephirah, Mozah,

²⁷ Rekem, Irpeel, Taralah,

²⁸ Zelah, 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.

19 The second lot fell to Simeon, to the tribe of the Simeonites according to their families; and their inheritance lay within that of the people of Judah.

² And they had for their inheritance: Beersheba or Sheba, Moladah,

³ Hazarshual, Balah, Ezem,

⁴ Eltolad, Bethul, Hormah,

⁵ Ziklag, Beth-marcaboth, Hazar-susah,

⁶ Beth-lebaoth, and Sharuhen; [making] thirteen cities and their villages;

⁷ Ain [with] Rimmon, Ether, and Ashan; [making] four cities and their villages;

⁸ And all the villages around these cities as far as Baalath-beer, or Ramah of the Negeb. This was the possession of the Simeonites according to their families.

⁹ Out of the part assigned to the Judahites was the inheritance of the tribe of Simeon, for the portion of the tribe of Judah was too large for them. Therefore the tribe of Simeon had its inheritance in the midst of Judah’s inheritance.

¹⁰ The third lot came up for the tribe of Zebulun according to their families. The border of its inheritance extended to Sarid.

¹¹ Then its boundary went up westward and on to Maralah and reached to Dabbesheth and to the brook east of Jokneam.

¹² And it turned from Sarid eastward to the border of Chisloth-tabor and it went out to Daberath and on up to Japhia,

¹³ Then passed eastward to Gath-hepher [Jonah’s birthplace] and to Eth-kazin, and went on to Rimmon bending toward Neah.

¹⁴ The boundary circled on the north to Hannathon, ending at the Valley of Iphtah-el.

¹⁵ Included were Kattath, Nahalal, Shimron, Idalah, and Bethlehem; twelve cities with their villages.

¹⁶ This is the inheritance of the people of Zebulun according to their families, these cities with their villages.

¹⁷ The fourth lot fell to Issachar, to its people according to their families.

¹⁸ Their territory included: Jezreel, Chesulloth, Shunem,

¹⁹ Hapharaim, Shion, Anaharath,

²⁰ Rabbith, Kishion, Ebez,

²¹ Remeth, En-gannim, En-haddah, and Beth-pazzez.

²² The boundary reached to Tabor, Shahazumah, and Beth-shemesh, and ended at the Jordan; sixteen cities with their villages.

²³ This is the inheritance of the tribe of Issachar according to their families, the cities and their villages.

²⁴ The fifth lot fell to the tribe of Asher according to their families.

²⁵ Their territory included: Helkath, Hali, Beten, Achshaph,

²⁶ Allammelech, Amad, and Mishal; and on the west it touched Carmel and Shihor-libnath.

²⁷ Then it turned eastward to Beth-dagon, touching Zebulun and the Valley of Iphtah-el northward to Beth-emek and Neiel, and continued in the north to Cabul,

²⁸ Ebron, Rehob, Hammon, and Kanah, even to populous Sidon.

²⁹ Then the boundary turned to Ramah, reaching to the fortified city of Tyre; and it turned to Hosah, and ended at the sea—Mahalab, Achzib,

³⁰ Ummah, Aphek, and Rehob; twenty-two cities with their villages.

³¹ This is the inheritance of the tribe of Asher according to their families, these cities with their villages.

³² The sixth lot fell to the tribe of Naphtali according to their families.

³³ Their boundary ran from Heleph, from the oak in Zaanannim and Adami-nekeb and Jabneel as far as Lakkum; and it ended at the Jordan.

³⁴ Then the boundary turned westward to Aznoth-tabor and went from there to Hukkok, touching Zebulun on the south, Asher on the west, and Judah on the east at the Jordan.

³⁵ The fortified cities included Ziddim, Zer, Hammath, Rakkath, Chinnereth,

³⁶ Adamah, Ramah, Hazor,

³⁷ Kedesh, Edrei, En-hazor,

³⁸ Yiron, Migdal-el, Horem, Beth-anath, and Beth-shemesh; nineteen cities and their villages.

³⁹ This is the inheritance of the tribe of Naphtali according to their families, the cities and their villages.

⁴⁰ And the seventh lot fell to the tribe of Dan according to their families.

⁴¹ The territory of their inheritance included: Zorah, Eshtaol, Ir-shemesh,

⁴² Shaalabbin, Aijalon, Ithlah,

⁴³ Elon, Timnah, Ekron,

⁴⁴ Eltekeh, Gibbethon, Baalath,

⁴⁵ Jehud, Bene-berak, Gath-rimmon,

⁴⁶ Me-jarkon, and Rakkon, with the territory before Joppa.

⁴⁷ The territory of the tribe of Dan had to be extended [because of the crowding in of the Amorites and Philistines]; so the sons of Dan went up to fight against Leshem (Laish) and took it and smote it with the sword and possessed it and dwelt there, and they called Leshem (Laish) Dan after Dan their [forefather].^(A)

⁴⁸ This is the inheritance of the tribe of Dan according to their families, these cities with their villages.

⁴⁹ When they had finished dividing the land for inheritance by their boundaries, the Israelites gave an inheritance among them to Joshua son of Nun.

⁵⁰ According to the word of the Lord they gave him the city for which he asked—Timnath-serah in the hills of Ephraim. And he built the city and dwelt in it.

⁵¹ These are the inheritances which Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers’ houses of the tribes of Israel distributed by lot in Shiloh before the Lord at the door of the Tent of Meeting. So they finished dividing the land.