This then was the lot of the tribe of the children of Judah by their families; even to the border of Edom the wilderness of Zin southward was the uttermost part of the south coast.

And she called his name Joseph; and said, The Lord shall add to me another son.

And if he have betrothed her unto his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters.

Issachar is a strong ass couching down between two burdens:

And the Lord God of Israel delivered Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, and they smote them: so Israel possessed all the land of the Amorites, the inhabitants of that country.

And Ain with her suburbs, and Juttah with her suburbs, and Beth–shemesh with her suburbs; nine cities out of those two tribes.

Then sat Solomon upon the throne of David his father; and his kingdom was established greatly.

For such as be blessed of him shall inherit the earth; and they that be cursed of him shall be cut off.

And those that do pitch next unto him shall be the tribe of Issachar: and Nethaneel the son of Zuar shall be captain of the children of Issachar.

And die in the mount whither thou goest up, and be gathered unto thy people; as Aaron thy brother died in mount Hor, and was gathered unto his people:

Of the sons of Manasseh: of Machir, the family of the Machirites: and Machir begat Gilead: of Gilead come the family of the Gileadites.

And he removed from thence, and digged another well; and for that they strove not: and he called the name of it Rehoboth; and he said, For now the Lord hath made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.

And the Lord said unto me, Distress not the Moabites, neither contend with them in battle: for I will not give thee of their land for a possession; because I have given Ar unto the children of Lot for a possession.

And over the host of the tribe of the children of Asher was Pagiel the son of Ocran.

Wherefore David said unto the Gibeonites, What shall I do for you? and wherewith shall I make the atonement, that ye may bless the inheritance of the Lord?

And the prince of the tribe of the children of Asher, Ahihud the son of Shelomi.

Look down from thy holy habitation, from heaven, and bless thy people Israel, and the land which thou hast given us, as thou swarest unto our fathers, a land that floweth with milk and honey.

And out of the tribe of Issachar, Kishon with her suburbs, Dabareh with her suburbs,

And their border was Helkath, and Hali, and Beten, and Achshaph,

And if he that sanctified the field will in any wise redeem it, then he shall add the fifth part of the money of thy estimation unto it, and it shall be assured to him.

And afterward the children of Judah went down to fight against the Canaanites, that dwelt in the mountain, and in the south, and in the valley.

And Abijam slept with his fathers; and they buried him in the city of David: and Asa his son reigned in his stead.

His name shall endure for ever: his name shall be continued as long as the sun: and men shall be blessed in him: all nations shall call him blessed.

And the border went over from thence toward Luz, to the side of Luz, which is Beth–el, southward; and the border descended to Ataroth–adar, near the hill that lieth on the south side of the nether Beth–horon.

After that he is sold he may be redeemed again; one of his brethren may redeem him:

And it came to pass, whensoever the stronger cattle did conceive, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the cattle in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods.

Blessed shall be thy basket and thy store.

And the coast of the Amorites was from the going up to Akrabbim, from the rock, and upward.

And Naomi said, Turn again, my daughters: why will ye go with me? are there yet any more sons in my womb, that they may be your husbands?

Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of any thing that is lent upon usury:

His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the east.

And at Beth–marcaboth, and Hazar–susim, and at Beth–birei, and at Shaaraim. These were their cities unto the reign of David.

The king also said unto them, Take with you the servants of your lord, and cause Solomon my son to ride upon mine own mule, and bring him down to Gihon:

My father made me swear, saying, Lo, I die: in my grave which I have digged for me in the land of Canaan, there shalt thou bury me. Now therefore let me go up, I pray thee, and bury my father, and I will come again.

Likewise when the Lord sent you from Kadesh–barnea, saying, Go up and possess the land which I have given you; then ye rebelled against the commandment of the Lord your God, and ye believed him not, nor hearkened to his voice.

And they said, There must be an inheritance for them that be escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe be not destroyed out of Israel.

And the border went out unto the side of Ekron northward: and the border was drawn to Shicron, and passed along to mount Baalah, and went out unto Jabneel; and the goings out of the border were at the sea.

The Lord your God hath multiplied you, and, behold, ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude.

Until the Lord have given your brethren rest, as he hath given you, and they also have possessed the land which the Lord your God giveth them: then ye shall return unto the land of your possession, and enjoy it, which Moses the Lord’s servant gave you on this side Jordan toward the sunrising.

And Rebekah heard when Isaac spake to Esau his son. And Esau went to the field to hunt for venison, and to bring it.

I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish, and that ye shall not prolong your days upon the land, whither thou passest over Jordan to go to possess it.

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

Take his garment that is surety for a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.

And his name shall be called in Israel, The house of him that hath his shoe loosed.

There failed not ought of any good thing which the Lord had spoken unto the house of Israel; all came to pass.

For the Lord will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob.

And the Levites: both Jeshua the son of Azaniah, Binnui of the sons of Henadad, Kadmiel;

And when thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied, and all that thou hast is multiplied;

Hear, O Israel: Thou art to pass over Jordan this day, to go in to possess nations greater and mightier than thyself, cities great and fenced up to heaven,

Therefore shall ye keep all the commandments which I command you this day, that ye may be strong, and go in and possess the land, whither ye go to possess it;

And Hebron, and Rehob, and Hammon, and Kanah, even unto great Zidon;

And I will give this people favour in the sight of the Egyptians: and it shall come to pass, that, when ye go, ye shall not go empty:

And it came to pass, whensoever the stronger cattle did conceive, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the cattle in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods.

The rich man’s wealth is his strong city, and as an high wall in his own conceit.

And all the cities of those kings, and all the kings of them, did Joshua take, and smote them with the edge of the sword, and he utterly destroyed them, as Moses the servant of the Lord commanded.

And he shall be unto thee a restorer of thy life, and a nourisher of thine old age: for thy daughter in law, which loveth thee, which is better to thee than seven sons, hath born him.

Hadar, and Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah:

And the south quarter was from the end of Kirjath–jearim, and the border went out on the west, and went out to the well of waters of Nephtoah:

And he charged them, and said unto them, I am to be gathered unto my people: bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,

For shame hath devoured the labour of our fathers from our youth; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.

And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of many generations.

But thou shalt go unto my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son Isaac.

He coveteth greedily all the day long: but the righteous giveth and spareth not.

And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre: the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan.

Nevertheless thou shalt not build the house; but thy son that shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the house unto my name.

And the Lord spake unto Aaron, Thou shalt have no inheritance in their land, neither shalt thou have any part among them: I am thy part and thine inheritance among the children of Israel.

And all the plain on this side Jordan eastward, even unto the sea of the plain, under the springs of Pisgah.

Notwithstanding the cities of the Levites, and the houses of the cities of their possession, may the Levites redeem at any time.

Thou therefore, and thy sons, and thy servants, shall till the land for him, and thou shalt bring in the fruits, that thy master’s son may have food to eat: but Mephibosheth thy master’s son shall eat bread alway at my table. Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.

Thou shalt not have in thine house divers measures, a great and a small.

And there came of the children of Benjamin and Judah to the hold unto David.

Thy children shall make haste; thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth of thee.

And Joshua said unto the children of Israel, How long are ye slack to go to possess the land, which the Lord God of your fathers hath given you?

He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set them among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the Lord’s, and he hath set the world upon them.

He hath taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day appointed.

The rich man’s wealth is his strong city, and as an high wall in his own conceit.

And the border came down to the end of the mountain that lieth before the valley of the son of Hinnom, and which is in the valley of the giants on the north, and descended to the valley of Hinnom, to the side of Jebusi on the south, and descended to En–rogel,

The children of Solomon’s servants: the children of Sotai, the children of Sophereth, the children of Perida,

And unto Caleb the son of Jephunneh he gave a part among the children of Judah, according to the commandment of the Lord to Joshua, even the city of Arba the father of Anak, which city is Hebron.

And the sons of Asher; Jimnah, and Ishuah, and Isui, and Beriah, and Serah their sister: and the sons of Beriah; Heber, and Malchiel.

I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they.

Johanan the eighth, Elzabad the ninth,

Her former husband, which sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that is abomination before the Lord: and thou shalt not cause the land to sin, which the Lord thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.

Otherwise it shall come to pass, when my lord the king shall sleep with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon shall be counted offenders.

And threescore and one thousand asses,

When a man shall take hold of his brother of the house of his father, saying, Thou hast clothing, be thou our ruler, and let this ruin be under thy hand:

And with you there shall be a man of every tribe; every one head of the house of his fathers.

But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of the men that went to search the land, lived still.

And the officers shall speak unto the people, saying, What man is there that hath built a new house, and hath not dedicated it? let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man dedicate it.

Zebulun and Naphtali were a people that jeoparded their lives unto the death in the high places of the field.

So they smote him, and his sons, and all his people, until there was none left him alive: and they possessed his land.

This people have I formed for myself; they shall shew forth my praise.

And he came unto his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I; who art thou, my son?

Now when Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, was come unto David, he fell on his face, and did reverence. And David said, Mephibosheth. And he answered, Behold thy servant!

And over the host of the tribe of the children of Benjamin was Abidan the son of Gideoni.

The king of Madon, one; the king of Hazor, one;

And the land which I gave Abraham and Isaac, to thee I will give it, and to thy seed after thee will I give the land.

The children of Gad and the children of Reuben came and spake unto Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and unto the princes of the congregation, saying,

And this shall be your north border: from the great sea ye shall point out for you mount Hor:

But if he be not able to restore it to him, then that which is sold shall remain in the hand of him that hath bought it until the year of jubile: and in the jubile it shall go out, and he shall return unto his possession.

Yea, they despised the pleasant land, they believed not his word:

Why leap ye, ye high hills? this is the hill which God desireth to dwell in; yea, the Lord will dwell in it for ever.

And God said unto Abraham, Thou shalt keep my covenant therefore, thou, and thy seed after thee in their generations.

And the king said, And where is thy master’s son? And Ziba said unto the king, Behold, he abideth at Jerusalem: for he said, To day shall the house of Israel restore me the kingdom of my father.

As the Lord commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did, and they divided the land.

And Joshua blessed him, and gave unto Caleb the son of Jephunneh Hebron for an inheritance.

And his father Isaac said unto him, Come near now, and kiss me, my son.

All the heave offerings of the holy things, which the children of Israel offer unto the Lord, have I given thee, and thy sons and thy daughters with thee, by a statute for ever: it is a covenant of salt for ever before the Lord unto thee and to thy seed with thee.

If thou hast nothing to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee?

And Bethuel begat Rebekah: these eight Milcah did bear to Nahor, Abraham’s brother.

After that he is sold he may be redeemed again; one of his brethren may redeem him:

And Saul died, and Baal–hanan the son of Achbor reigned in his stead.

What, my son? and what, the son of my womb? and what, the son of my vows?

And his father Isaac said unto him, Come near now, and kiss me, my son.

Now it came to pass after this, that Nahash the king of the children of Ammon died, and his son reigned in his stead.

And Hazar–shual, and Balah, and Azem,

And Isaac said unto Jacob, Come near, I pray thee, that I may feel thee, my son, whether thou be my very son Esau or not.

Let Reuben live, and not die; and let not his men be few.

And his brethren went to feed their father’s flock in Shechem.

And the sons of Merari by their families; Mahli, and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to the house of their fathers.

But if the priest’s daughter be a widow, or divorced, and have no child, and is returned unto her father’s house, as in her youth, she shall eat of her father’s meat: but there shall no stranger eat thereof.

And the sons of Bela were Ard and Naaman: of Ard, the family of the Ardites: and of Naaman, the family of the Naamites.

But thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

And now the Lord your God hath given rest unto your brethren, as he promised them: therefore now return ye, and get you unto your tents, and unto the land of your possession, which Moses the servant of the Lord gave you on the other side Jordan.

When the Lord thy God hath cut off the nations, whose land the Lord thy God giveth thee, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their cities, and in their houses;

Of the sons of Manasseh: of Machir, the family of the Machirites: and Machir begat Gilead: of Gilead come the family of the Gileadites.

And these were the princes which he had; Azariah the son of Zadok the priest,

And every offering of all the holy things of the children of Israel, which they bring unto the priest, shall be his.

She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto the river.

And the officers shall speak unto the people, saying, What man is there that hath built a new house, and hath not dedicated it? let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man dedicate it.

Zebulun and Naphtali were a people that jeoparded their lives unto the death in the high places of the field.

So they smote him, and his sons, and all his people, until there was none left him alive: and they possessed his land.

For thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God: the Lord thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth.

He shall subdue the people under us, and the nations under our feet.

The children of Gibeon, ninety and five.

Thus saith the Lord, In an acceptable time have I heard thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped thee: and I will preserve thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, to establish the earth, to cause to inherit the desolate heritages;

Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.

But thou shalt go unto my father’s house, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son.

The Lord shall command the blessing upon thee in thy storehouses, and in all that thou settest thine hand unto; and he shall bless thee in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty kine, and ten bulls, twenty she asses, and ten foals.

And there came of the children of Benjamin and Judah to the hold unto David.

Who can count the dust of Jacob, and the number of the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his!

Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, which are borne by me from the belly, which are carried from the womb:

The king of Jericho, one; the king of Ai, which is beside Beth–el, one;

And thy brethren also of the tribe of Levi, the tribe of thy father, bring thou with thee, that they may be joined unto thee, and minister unto thee: but thou and thy sons with thee shall minister before the tabernacle of witness.

And the coast reacheth to Tabor, and Shahazimah, and Beth–shemesh; and the outgoings of their border were at Jordan: sixteen cities with their villages.

And I will also take of them for priests and for Levites, saith the Lord.

And that ye may prolong your days in the land, which the Lord sware unto your fathers to give unto them and to their seed, a land that floweth with milk and honey.

And out of the tribe of Gad; Ramoth in Gilead with her suburbs, and Mahanaim with her suburbs,

The three and twentieth to Mahazioth, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:

Of the sons of Manasseh: of Machir, the family of the Machirites: and Machir begat Gilead: of Gilead come the family of the Gileadites.

And these are the countries which the children of Israel inherited in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel, distributed for inheritance to them.

Only the Lord had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above all people, as it is this day.

Even unto them will I give in mine house and within my walls a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters: I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off.

But your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have despised.

And those that are to be redeemed from a month old shalt thou redeem, according to thine estimation, for the money of five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, which is twenty gerahs.

The place was called the brook Eshcol, because of the cluster of grapes which the children of Israel cut down from thence.

Whereas thou hast been forsaken and hated, so that no man went through thee, I will make thee an eternal excellency, a joy of many generations.

And when thy days be fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I will set up thy seed after thee, which shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I will establish his kingdom.

The wise shall inherit glory: but shame shall be the promotion of fools.

Then again Abraham took a wife, and her name was Keturah.

Fear not: for I am with thee: I will bring thy seed from the east, and gather thee from the west;

And the Lord said unto Aaron, Thou and thy sons and thy father’s house with thee shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary: and thou and thy sons with thee shall bear the iniquity of your priesthood.

And they sat before him, the firstborn according to his birthright, and the youngest according to his youth: and the men marvelled one at another.

And Abraham was an hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born unto him.

The children of thy servants shall continue, and their seed shall be established before thee.

And to them which were in Aroer, and to them which were in Siphmoth, and to them which were in Eshtemoa,

He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.

Gilead abode beyond Jordan: and why did Dan remain in ships? Asher continued on the sea shore, and abode in his breaches.

And he hath cast the lot for them, and his hand hath divided it unto them by line: they shall possess it for ever, from generation to generation shall they dwell therein.

If he said thus, The speckled shall be thy wages; then all the cattle bare speckled: and if he said thus, The ringstraked shall be thy hire; then bare all the cattle ringstraked.

Shall not their cattle and their substance and every beast of theirs be ours? only let us consent unto them, and they will dwell with us.

Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?

But charge Joshua, and encourage him, and strengthen him: for he shall go over before this people, and he shall cause them to inherit the land which thou shalt see.

And to the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to half the tribe of Manasseh, spake Joshua, saying,

And the kinsman said, I cannot redeem it for myself, lest I mar mine own inheritance: redeem thou my right to thyself; for I cannot redeem it.

The wise shall inherit glory: but shame shall be the promotion of fools.

And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith the Lord, Israel is my son, even my firstborn:

And now it is true that I am thy near kinsman: howbeit there is a kinsman nearer than I.

And it came to pass, as soon as Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob, and Jacob was yet scarce gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting.

And they dwelt from Havilah unto Shur, that is before Egypt, as thou goest toward Assyria: and he died in the presence of all his brethren.

And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of many generations.

Of Harim, Adna; of Meraioth, Helkai;

And Joseph placed his father and his brethren, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.

Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my treasures?

Benaiah the Pirathonite, Hiddai of the brooks of Gaash,

And the Lord appeared unto him the same night, and said, I am the God of Abraham thy father: fear not, for I am with thee, and will bless thee, and multiply thy seed for my servant Abraham’s sake.

And Isaac his father answered and said unto him, Behold, thy dwelling shall be the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of heaven from above;

And Jacob went near unto Isaac his father; and he felt him, and said, The voice is Jacob’s voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.

And Kinah, and Dimonah, and Adadah,

And Moses sent to spy out Jaazer, and they took the villages thereof, and drove out the Amorites that were there.

And the Lord hath blessed my master greatly; and he is become great: and he hath given him flocks, and herds, and silver, and gold, and menservants, and maidservants, and camels, and asses.

And out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer with her suburbs, and Jahazah with her suburbs,

The two tribes and the half tribe have received their inheritance on this side Jordan near Jericho eastward, toward the sunrising.

Number the children of Levi after the house of their fathers, by their families: every male from a month old and upward shalt thou number them.

Their blood shall therefore return upon the head of Joab, and upon the head of his seed for ever: but upon David, and upon his seed, and upon his house, and upon his throne, shall there be peace for ever from the Lord.

And if a man sanctify unto the Lord a field which he hath bought, which is not of the fields of his possession;

Honour the Lord with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase:

Then the tribe of Naphtali: and the captain of the children of Naphtali shall be Ahira the son of Enan.

And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, even to this mountain, which his right hand had purchased.