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The inheritance of the Simeonites was taken from the share of Judah, because Judah's portion was more than they needed. So the Simeonites received their inheritance within the territory of Judah.

(But the Danites had difficulty taking possession of their territory, so they went up and attacked Leshem, took it, put it to the sword and occupied it. They settled in Leshem and named it Dan after their forefather.)

These are the territories that Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun and the heads of the tribal clans of Israel assigned by lot at Shiloh in the presence of the LORD at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting. And so they finished dividing the land.

so that anyone who kills a person accidentally and unintentionally may flee there and find protection from the avenger of blood.

So they set apart Kedesh in Galilee in the hill country of Naphtali, Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and Kiriath Arba (that is, Hebron) in the hill country of Judah.

So, as the LORD had commanded, the Israelites gave the Levites the following towns and pasturelands out of their own inheritance:

So the Israelites allotted to the Levites these towns and their pasturelands, as the LORD had commanded through Moses.

So to the descendants of Aaron the priest they gave Hebron (a city of refuge for one accused of murder), Libnah,

So the LORD gave Israel all the land he had sworn to give their forefathers, and they took possession of it and settled there.

So the Reubenites, the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh left the Israelites at Shiloh in Canaan to return to Gilead, their own land, which they had acquired in accordance with the command of the LORD through Moses.

So the Israelites sent Phinehas son of Eleazar, the priest, to the land of Gilead-to Reuben, Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh.

The LORD has made the Jordan a boundary between us and you-you Reubenites and Gadites! You have no share in the LORD .' So your descendants might cause ours to stop fearing the LORD .

So be very careful to love the LORD your God.

But just as every good promise of the LORD your God has come true, so the LORD will bring on you all the evil he has threatened, until he has destroyed you from this good land he has given you.

But I would not listen to Balaam, so he blessed you again and again, and I delivered you out of his hand.

So I gave you a land on which you did not toil and cities you did not build; and you live in them and eat from vineyards and olive groves that you did not plant.'

Then the men of Judah said to the Simeonites their brothers, "Come up with us into the territory allotted to us, to fight against the Canaanites. We in turn will go with you into yours." So the Simeonites went with them.

Othniel son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother, took it; so Caleb gave his daughter Acsah to him in marriage.

So he showed them, and they put the city to the sword but spared the man and his whole family.

The anger of the LORD burned against Israel so that he sold them into the hands of Cushan-Rishathaim king of Aram Naharaim, to whom the Israelites were subject for eight years.