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Then the second lot went to Simeon, to the tribe of the sons of Simeon according to their families; and their inheritance was in the midst of the inheritance of the sons of Judah.

So they had in their inheritance Beersheba or ^(F1)Sheba and Moladah,

Hazar-shual, Balah, and Ezem,

Eltolad, Bethul, and Hormah,

Ziklag, Beth-marcaboth, and Hazar-susah,

Beth-lebaoth, and Sharuhen; thirteen cities with their villages;

Ain, Rimmon, Ether, and Ashan; four cities with their villages;

and all the villages which were around these cities as far as Baalath-beer, Ramah of the ^(F1)Negev. This was the inheritance of the tribe of the sons of Simeon according to their families.

The inheritance of the sons of Simeon was taken from the portion of the sons of Judah, because the share of the sons of Judah was too large for them; so the sons of Simeon received an inheritance in the midst of ^(F1)Judah's inheritance.