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The fourth lot came out for Issachar, for the tribe of Issachar, according to its families.
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Its territory included Jezreel, Chesulloth, Shunem,
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Hapharaim, Shion, Anaharath,
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Rabbith, Kishion, Ebez,
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Remeth, En-gannim, En-haddah, Beth-pazzez;
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the boundary also touches Tabor, Shahazumah, and Beth-shemesh, and its boundary ends at the Jordan—sixteen towns with their villages.
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This is the inheritance of the tribe of Issachar, according to its families—the towns with their villages.
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The fifth lot came out for the tribe of Asher according to its families.
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Its boundary included Helkath, Hali, Beten, Achshaph,
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Allammelech, Amad, and Mishal; on the west it touches Carmel and Shihor-libnath,
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then it turns eastward, goes to Beth-dagon, and touches Zebulun and the valley of Iphtah-el northward to Beth-emek and Neiel; then it continues in the north to Cabul,
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Ebron, Rehob, Hammon, Kanah, as far as Great Sidon;
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then the boundary turns to Ramah, reaching to the fortified city of Tyre; then the boundary turns to Hosah, and it ends at the sea; Mahalab, Achzib,
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Ummah, Aphek, and Rehob—twenty-two towns with their villages.
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This is the inheritance of the tribe of Asher according to its families—these towns with their villages.
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The sixth lot came out for the tribe of Naphtali, for the tribe of Naphtali, according to its families.
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And its boundary ran from Heleph, from the oak in Zaanannim, and Adami-nekeb, and Jabneel, as far as Lakkum; and it ended at the Jordan;
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then the boundary turns westward to Aznoth-tabor, and goes from there to Hukkok, touching Zebulun at the south, and Asher on the west, and Judah on the east at the Jordan.
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The fortified towns are Ziddim, Zer, Hammath, Rakkath, Chinnereth,
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Kedesh, Edrei, En-hazor,
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Iron, Migdal-el, Horem, Beth-anath, and Beth-shemesh—nineteen towns with their villages.
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This is the inheritance of the tribe of Naphtali according to its families—the towns with their villages.
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The seventh lot came out for the tribe of Dan, according to its families.
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The territory of its inheritance included Zorah, Eshtaol, Ir-shemesh,
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Shaalabbin, Aijalon, Ithlah,
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Eltekeh, Gibbethon, Baalath,
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Jehud, Bene-berak, Gath-rimmon,
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Me-jarkon, and Rakkon at the border opposite Joppa.
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When the territory of the Danites was lost to them, the Danites went up and fought against Leshem, and after capturing it and putting it to the sword, they took possession of it and settled in it, calling Leshem, Dan, after their ancestor Dan.
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This is the inheritance of the tribe of Dan, according to their families—these towns with their villages.
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When they had finished distributing the several territories of the land as inheritances, the Israelites gave an inheritance among them to Joshua son of Nun.
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By command of the Lord they gave him the town that he asked for, Timnath-serah in the hill country of Ephraim; he rebuilt the town, and settled in it.
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These are the inheritances that the priest Eleazar and Joshua son of Nun and the heads of the families of the tribes of the Israelites distributed by lot at Shiloh before the Lord, at the entrance of the tent of meeting. So they finished dividing the land.