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This is the inheritance of the tribe of the sons of Judah, for their families:

And the cities at the furthest border of the tribe of the sons of Judah were to the border of Edom in the south: Kabzeel, and Eder, and Jagur,

and Kinah, and Dimonah, and Adadah,

and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Ithnan,

Ziph, and Telem, and Bealoth,

and Hazor, Hadattah, and Kerioth, and Hezron, which is Hazor,

Amam, and Shema, and Moladah,

and Hazar-gaddah, and Heshmon, and Beth-palet,

and Hazar-shual and Beer-sheba and Bizjothjah,

Baalah, and Iim, and Azem,

and Eltolad, and Chesil, and Hormah,

and Ziklag, and Madmannah, and Sansannah,

and Lebaoth, and Shilhim, and Ain, and Rimmon. All the cities are twenty nine and their villages.

In the Lowlands were : Eshtaol, and Zoreah, and Ashnah,

and Zanoah, and En-gannim, Tappuah, and Enam,

Jarmuth, and Adullam, Socoh, and Azekah,

and Sharaim, and Adithaim, and Gederah, and Gederoth-aim fourteen cities and their villages;

Zenan, and Hadashah, and Migdal-gad,

and Dilean, and Mizpeh, and Joktheel,

Lachish and Bozkath, and Eglon,

and Cabbon, and Lahmam, and Kithlish,

and Gederoth, Beth-dagon, and Naamah, and Makkedah, sixteen cities and their villages;

Libnah, and Ether, and Ashan,

and Jiphtah, and Ashnah, and Nezib,

and Keilah, and Achzib, and Mareshah; nine cities and their villages

Ekron with its daughter-villages;

from Ekron even to the sea, all that were at hand by Ashdod, and their villages;

Ashdod with its daughter-villages; Gaza with its daughter-villages, to the river of Egypt, and the Great Sea, and its coast.

And in the hills: Shamir, and Jattir, and Socoh,

and Dannah, and Kirjath-sannah, which is Debir,

and Anab, and Eshtemoh, and Anim,

and Goshen, and Holon, and Giloh; eleven cities and their villages,

Arab and Dumah, and Eshean,

and Janum, and Beth-tappuah, and Aphekah,

and Humtah, and the City of Arba, which is Hebron, and Zior; nine cities and their villages,

Maon, Carmel and Ziph, and Juttah,

and Jezreel, and Jokdeam, and Zanoah,

Cain, Gibeah, and Timnah; ten cities and their villages;

Halhul, Beth-zur, and Gedor,

and Maarath, and Beth-anoth, and Eltekon; six cities and their villages;

Kirjath-baal, which is Kirjath-jearim, and Rabbah; two cities and their villages.

In the wilderness, Beth-arabah, Middin, and Secacah,

and Nibshan, and the city of Salt, and En-gedi; six cities and their villages.

As for the Jebusites, the ones living in Jerusalem, the sons of Judah could not drive them out. But the Jebusites dwell with the sons of Judah at Jerusalem to this day.