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The second lot came out for Simeon, for the tribe of Simeon, according to its families; and its inheritance was in the midst of the inheritance of the tribe of Judah.
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And it had for its inheritance Beer-sheba, Sheba, Mola'dah,
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Hazar-shu'al, Balah, Ezem,
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Elto'lad, Bethul, Hormah,
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Ziklag, Beth-mar'caboth, Ha'zar-su'sah,
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Beth-leba'oth, and Sharu'hen--thirteen cities with their villages;
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En-rimmon, Ether, and Ashan--four cities with their villages;
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together with all the villages round about these cities as far as Ba'alath-beer, Ramah of the Negeb. This was the inheritance of the tribe of Simeon according to its families.
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The inheritance of the tribe of Simeon formed part of the territory of Judah; because the portion of the tribe of Judah was too large for them, the tribe of Simeon obtained an inheritance in the midst of their inheritance.
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The third lot came up for the tribe of Zeb'ulun, according to its families. And the territory of its inheritance reached as far as Sarid;
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then its boundary goes up westward, and on to Mar'eal, and touches Dab'besheth, then the brook which is east of Jok'ne-am;