¹ 耶和华晓谕摩西说：

² 你打发人去窥探我所赐给以色列人的迦南地，他们每支派中要打发一个人，都要作首领的。

³ 摩西就照耶和华的吩咐，从巴兰的旷野打发他们去；他们都是以色列人的族长。

⁴ 他们的名字：属流便支派的有撒刻的儿子沙母亚。

⁵ 属西缅支派的有何利的儿子的沙法。

⁶ 属犹大支派的有耶孚尼的儿子迦勒。

⁷ 属以萨迦支派的有约色的儿子以迦。

⁸ 属以法莲支派的有嫩的儿子何西阿。

⁹ 属便雅悯支派的有拉孚的儿子帕提。

¹⁰ 属西布伦支派的有梭底的儿子迦叠。

¹¹ 约瑟的子孙属玛拿西支派的有稣西的儿子迦底。

¹² 属但支派的有基玛利的儿子亚米利。

¹³ 属亚设支派的有米迦勒的儿子西帖。

¹⁴ 属拿弗他利支派的有缚西的儿子拿比。

¹⁵ 属迦得支派的有玛基的儿子臼利。

¹⁶ 这就是摩西所打发窥探那地之人的名字。摩西就称嫩的儿子何西阿为约书亚。

¹⁷ 摩西打发他们去窥探迦南地，说：你们从南地上山地去，

¹⁸ 看那地如何，其中所住的民是强是弱，是多是少，

¹⁹ 所住之地是好是歹，所住之处是营盘是坚城。

²⁰ 又看那地土是肥美是瘠薄，其中有树木没有。你们要放开胆量，把那地的果子带些来。那时正是葡萄初熟的时候。

²¹ 他们上去窥探那地，从寻的旷野到利合，直到哈马口。

²² 他们从南地上去，到了希伯仑；在那里有亚衲族人亚希幔、示筛、挞买。原来希伯仑城被建造比埃及的锁安城早七年。

²³ 他们到了以实各谷，从那里砍了葡萄树的一枝，上头有一挂葡萄，两个人用杠抬着，又带了些石榴和无花果来。

²⁴ 因为以色列人从那里砍来的那挂葡萄，所以那地方叫做以实各谷。

²⁵ 过了四十天，他们窥探那地才回来，

²⁶ 到了巴兰旷野的加低斯，见摩西、亚伦，并以色列的全会众，回报摩西、亚伦，并全会众，又把那地的果子给他们看；

²⁷ 又告诉摩西说：我们到了你所打发我们去的那地，果然是流奶与蜜之地；这就是那地的果子。

²⁸ 然而住那地的民强壮，城邑也坚固宽大，并且我们在那里看见了亚衲族的人。

²⁹ 亚玛力人住在南地；赫人、耶布斯人、亚摩利人、住在山地；迦南人住在海边并约但河旁。

³⁰ 迦勒在摩西面前安抚百姓，说：我们立刻上去得那地罢！我们足能得胜。

³¹ 但那些和他同去的人说：我们不能上去攻击那民，因为他们比我们强壮。

³² 探子中有人论到所窥探之地，向以色列人报恶信，说：我们所窥探、经过之地是吞吃居民之地，我们在那里所看见的人民都身量高大。

³³ 我们在那里看见亚衲族人，就是伟人；他们是伟人的後裔。据我们看，自己就如蚱蜢一样；据他们看，我们也是如此。

¹ The whole congregation of the children of Israel assembled themselves together at Shiloh, and set up the Tent of Meeting there. The land was subdued before them.

² Seven tribes remained among the children of Israel, which had not yet divided their inheritance.

³ Joshua said to the children of Israel, "How long will you neglect to go in to possess the land, which Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has given you?

⁴ Appoint for yourselves three men from each tribe. I will send them, and they shall arise, walk through the land, and describe it according to their inheritance; and they shall come to me.

⁵ They shall divide it into seven portions. Judah shall live in his borders on the south, and the house of Joseph shall live in their borders on the north.

⁶ You shall survey the land into seven parts, and bring the description here to me; and I will cast lots for you here before Yahweh our God.

⁷ For the Levites have no portion among you; for the priesthood of Yahweh is their inheritance. Gad, Reuben, and the half-tribe of Manasseh have received their inheritance beyond the Jordan eastward, which Moses the servant of Yahweh gave them."

⁸ The men arose and went. Joshua commanded those who went to survey the land, saying, "Go walk through the land, survey it, and come again to me. I will cast lots for you here before Yahweh in Shiloh."

⁹ The men went and passed through the land, and surveyed it by cities into seven portions in a book. They came to Joshua to the camp at Shiloh.

¹⁰ Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before Yahweh. There Joshua divided the land to the children of Israel according to their divisions.

¹¹ The lot of the tribe of the children of Benjamin came up according to their families. The border of their lot went out between the children of Judah and the children of Joseph.

¹² Their border on the north quarter was from the Jordan. The border went up to the side of Jericho on the north, and went up through the hill country westward. It ended at the wilderness of Beth Aven.

¹³ The border passed along from there to Luz, to the side of Luz (the same is Bethel), southward. The border went down to Ataroth Addar, by the mountain that lies on the south of Beth Horon the lower.

¹⁴ The border extended, and turned around on the west quarter southward, from the mountain that lies before Beth Horon southward; and ended at Kiriath Baal (the same is Kiriath Jearim), a city of the children of Judah. This was the west quarter.

¹⁵ The south quarter was from the farthest part of Kiriath Jearim. The border went out westward, and went out to the spring of the waters of Nephtoah.

¹⁶ The border went down to the farthest part of the mountain that lies before the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is in the valley of Rephaim northward. It went down to the valley of Hinnom, to the side of the Jebusite southward, and went down to En Rogel.

¹⁷ It extended northward, went out at En Shemesh, and went out to Geliloth, which is over against the ascent of Adummim. It went down to the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben.

¹⁸ It passed along to the side over against the Arabah northward, and went down to the Arabah.

¹⁹ The border passed along to the side of Beth Hoglah northward; and the border ended at the north bay of the Salt Sea, at the south end of the Jordan. This was the south border.

²⁰ The Jordan was its border on the east quarter. This was the inheritance of the children of Benjamin, by the borders around it, according to their families.

²¹ Now the cities of the tribe of the children of Benjamin according to their families were Jericho, Beth Hoglah, Emek Keziz,

²² Beth Arabah, Zemaraim, Bethel,

²³ Avvim, Parah, Ophrah,

²⁴ Chephar Ammoni, Ophni, and Geba; twelve cities with their villages.

²⁵ Gibeon, Ramah, Beeroth,

²⁶ Mizpeh, Chephirah, Mozah,

²⁷ Rekem, Irpeel, Taralah,

²⁸ Zelah, Eleph, the Jebusite (the same is Jerusalem), Gibeath, and Kiriath; fourteen cities with their villages. This is the inheritance of the children of Benjamin according to their families.