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This then was the lot of the tribe of the sons of Judah by their families: next to the border of Edom, of the wilderness of Zin towards the Negev on the south side.
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And their border on the side of the Negev was from the shore of the salt sea from the bay that looks toward the Negev;
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and it went out towards the Negev to the ascent to Acrabbim passing unto Zin and ascending up by the Negev unto Kadeshbarnea past Hezron and going up by Adar, it went around to Karkaa,
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from there it passed toward Azmon and went out unto the river of Egypt, and this border goes out to the western sea. This shall be your border of the Negev.
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And the east border
is the salt sea,
even unto the end of the Jordan. And the border in the north quarter, from the bay of the sea, from the end of the Jordan,
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and this border goes up to Bethhogla and passes along by the north of Betharabah, and from here this border goes up to the stone of Bohan, the son of Reuben.
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And this border goes back up to Debir from the valley of Achor and so northward, looking toward Gilgal, that
is before the ascent to Adummim, which
is towards the Negev of the river, and this border passes the waters of Enshemesh and comes out at the fount of Rogel;
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and this border goes up by the valley of the son of Hinnom unto the side of the Jebusite towards the Negev; this is Jerusalem. Then this border goes up to the top of the mountain that is before the valley of Hinnom westward, which
is at the end of the valley of the giants northward;