ous also,
yet does it not come behind other parts, on account of its exceeding
goodness and beauty; for which reason Joshua thought the land for the
tribes should be divided by estimation of its goodness, rather than the
largeness of its measure, it often happening that one acre of some sort
of land was equivalent to a thousand other acres. Now the men that
were sent, which were in number ten, traveled all about, and made an
estimation of the land, and in the seventh month came to him to the city
of Shiloh, where they had set up the tabernacle.

22. So Joshua took both Eleazar and the senate, and with them the heads
of the tribes, and distributed the land to the nine tribes, and to the
half-tribe of Manasseh, appointing the dimensions to be according to the
largeness of each tribe. So when he had cast lots, Judah had assigned
him by lot the upper part of Judea, reaching as far as Jerusalem, and
its breadth extended to the Lake of Sodom. Now in the lot of this tribe
there were the cities of Askelon and Gaza. The lot of Simeon, which was
the second, included that part of Idumea which bordered upon Egypt and
Arabia. As to the Benjamites, their lot fell so, that its length reached
from the river Jordan to the sea, but in breadth it was bounded by
Jerusalem and Bethel; and this lot was the narrowest of all, by reason
of the goodness of the land, for it included Jericho and the city of
Jerusalem. The tribe of Ephraim had by lot the land that extended in
length from the river Jordan to Gezer; but in breadth as far as from
Bethel, till it ended at the Great Plain. The half-tribe of Manasseh
had the land from Jordan to the city of Dora; but its breadth was at
Bethsham, which is now called Scythopolis. And after these was Issachar,
which had its limits in length, Mount Carmel and the river, but its
limit in breadth was Mount Tabor. The tribe of Zebulon's lot included
the land which lay as far as the Lake of Genesareth, and that which
belonged to Carmel and the sea. The tribe of Aser had that part which
was called the Valley, for such it was, and all that part which lay
over-against Sidon. The city Arce belonged to their share, which is also
named Actipus. The Naphthalites received the eastern parts, as far as
the city of Damascus and the Upper Galilee, unto Mount Libanus, and the
Fountains of Jordan, which rise out of that mountain; that is, out of
that part of it whose limits belong to the neighboring city of Arce.
The Danites'