A reading from the book of Joshua.

The second lot came out for Simeon, for the tribe of the people of Simeon according to their clans,

and their inheritance was in the midst of the inheritance of the people of Judah.

And they had for their inheritance, Bersheba, Shiba, Mol, Hazer Shal, Beala, Isam, El Tolid, Bethul,

Horma, Ziklag, Beth Markabode, Hazer Sousa, Beth Lebeov, and Sharuhin, 13 cities with their villages.

Ion, Rheather, and Aishun, four cities with their villages,

together with all the villages around these cities as far as Beeleth Beir, Rama of the Negev.

This was the inheritance of the tribe of the people of Simeon according to their clans. The inheritance of the Negev. This was the inheritance of the tribe of the people of Simeon, according to their clans.

The inheritance of the people of Simeon formed part of the territory of the people of Judah.

Because the portion of the people of Judah was too large for them, the people of Simeon

obtained an inheritance in the midst of their inheritance.

The third lot came up for the people of Zebulon, according to their clans, and the territory

of their inheritance reached as far as Seyred.

Then their boundary goes up westward, and on to Mariel and touches Dabishath, then

the brook that is east of Jokneum.

From Serid it goes in the other direction eastward toward the sunrise to the boundary of Kisloh Tabor.

From there it goes to Dabaroth, then up to Jifia.

From there it passes along on the east toward the sunrise to Gathiefer, to Ethkazen, and going

on to Ramon it bends toward Nia.

Then on the north the boundary turns about to Hanathan, and it ends at the valley of Ifthahel,

and Kutath, Nehalel, Shemrorone, Idela, and Bethlehem.

Twelve cities with their villages.

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