¹The lot for the tribe of the children of Judah, by their clans, reached to the boundary of Edom, the wilderness of Zin southward, at the far end of the south.

²Their southern boundary ran from the end of the Salt Sea, from the tongue-shaped bay that faces south.

³It went out south of the Ascent of Scorpions, passed on toward Zin, went up south of Kadesh-barnea, passed on to Hezron, went up to Addar, and turned around toward Karka.

⁴It passed on to Azmon and went out at the wadi of Egypt; the far ends of the boundary were toward the sea. This will be your southern boundary.

⁵The eastern boundary was the Salt Sea, as far as the end of the Jordan. The boundary on the northern corner ran from the tongue-shaped bay of the sea at the end of the Jordan.

⁶The boundary went up to Beth-hoglah and passed on north of Beth-arabah; then the boundary went up to the Stone of Bohan son of Reuben.

⁷The boundary went up to Debir from the Valley of Achor, and turned northward toward the Gilgal that lies opposite the Ascent of Adummim, which is south of the wadi. Then the boundary passed on to the waters of En-shemesh, and its far ends were at En-rogel.

⁸The boundary came up the valley of Ben-hinnom to the shoulder of the Jebusite from the south, that is Jerusalem; the boundary came up to the head of the mountain which is over the face of the valley of Hinnom seaward, which is in the end of the vale of Rephaim northward.

⁹Then the boundary turned from the top of the mountain to the spring of the waters of Nephtoah, and went out to the cities of Mount Ephron; and the boundary turned to Baalah, that is Kiriath-jearim.

¹⁰Then the boundary went round from Baalah seaward to Mount Seir, passed on to the shoulder of Mount Jearim on the north (that is Kesalon), went down to Beth-shemesh, and passed on to Timnah.

¹¹The boundary went out to the shoulder of Ekron northward; the boundary turned toward Shikkeron, passed on to Mount Baalah, and went out at Jabneel; and the far ends of the boundary were toward the sea.

¹²The sea boundary was the Great Sea, with its territory. This is the boundary of the children of Judah all around, by their clans.

¹³To Caleb son of Jephunneh he gave a portion in the midst of the children of Judah, by the mouth of Yahweh to Joshua: Kiriath-arba, the father of Anak, that is Hebron.

¹⁴From there Caleb dispossessed the three sons of Anak: Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai, those born of Anak.

¹⁵From there he went up against those who dwelled in Debir. The name of Debir formerly was Kiriath-sepher.

¹⁶Caleb said, Whoever strikes Kiriath-sepher and captures it, I will give him my daughter Achsah as a wife.

¹⁷Othniel son of Kenaz, the brother of Caleb, captured it, and he gave him Achsah his daughter as a wife.

¹⁸When she arrived, she incited him to ask her father for a field. Then she got down from the donkey, and Caleb said to her, What do you want?

¹⁹She said, Give me a blessing; for you have given me the land of the Negev, so give me springs of water. And he gave her the upper springs and the lower springs.

²⁰This was the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Judah, by their clans.

²¹The cities at the far end of the tribe of the children of Judah, toward the boundary of Edom in the south, were Kabzeel, and Eder, and Jagur,

²²and Kinah, and Dimonah, and Adadah,

²³and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Ithnan,

²⁴Ziph, and Telem, and Bealoth,

²⁵and Hazor-hadattah, and Kerioth-hezron (that is Hazor),

²⁶Amam, and Shema, and Moladah,

²⁷and Hazar-gaddah, and Heshmon, and Beth-pelet,

²⁸and Hazar-shual, and Beer-sheba, and Biziothiah,

²⁹Baalah, and Iim, and Ezem,

³⁰and Eltolad, and Kesil, and Hormah,

³¹and Ziklag and Madmannah and Sansannah,

³²and Lebaoth and Shilhim and Ain and Rimmon: all the cities, twenty-nine, and their courts.

³³In the Shephelah: Eshtaol and Zorah and Ashnah,

³⁴and Zanoah and En-gannim, Tappuah and Enam,

³⁵Jarmuth and Adullam, Socoh and Azekah,

³⁶and Shaaraim and Adithaim and Gederah and Gederothaim: fourteen cities and their courts.

³⁷Zenan and Hadashah and Migdal-gad,

³⁸and Dilean and Mizpah and Joktheel,

³⁹Lachish and Bozkath and Eglon,

⁴⁰and Cabbon and Lahmas and Kitlish,

⁴¹and Gederoth, Beth-dagon and Naamah and Makkedah: sixteen cities and their courts.

⁴²Libnah and Ether and Ashan,

⁴³and Iphtah and Ashnah and Nezib,

⁴⁴and Keilah and Aczib and Mareshah: nine cities and their courts.

⁴⁵Ekron, with its daughter villages and its courts.

⁴⁶From Ekron seaward, all that lies beside Ashdod, and their courts.

⁴⁷Ashdod, its daughters and its courts; Gaza, its daughters and its courts, as far as the wadi of Egypt, and the great sea and its boundary.

⁴⁸And in the hill country: Shamir and Jattir and Socoh,

⁴⁹and Dannah and Kiriath-sannah, which is Debir,

⁵⁰and Anab and Eshtemoh and Anim,

⁵¹and Goshen and Holon and Giloh: eleven cities and their courts.

⁵²Arab and Rumah and Eshan,

⁵³and Janum and Beth-tappuah and Aphekah,

⁵⁴and Humtah and Kiriath-arba, which is Hebron, and Zior: nine cities and their courts.

⁵⁵Maon, Carmel and Ziph and Juttah,

⁵⁶and Jezreel and Jokdeam and Zanoah,

⁵⁷Kain, Gibeah and Timnah: ten cities and their courts.

⁵⁸Halhul, Beth-zur and Gedor,

⁵⁹and Maarath and Beth-anoth and Eltekon: six cities and their courts.

⁶⁰Kiriath-baal, which is Kiriath-jearim, and Rabbah: two cities and their courts.

⁶¹In the wilderness: Beth-arabah, Middin and Secacah,

⁶²and Nibshan and the City of Salt and En-gedi: six cities and their courts.

⁶³As for the Jebusites who dwelled in Jerusalem, the children of Judah could not dispossess them; so the Jebusites dwelled with the children of Judah in Jerusalem to this day.