¹Zvino ungano yose yavana vaIsiraeri yakaungana paShiro, ikadzikapo tende rokusangana; nyika yakanga yakundwa navo.

¹The 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.

²Asi pakati pavana vaIsiraeri kwakanga kwasara marudzi manomwe akanga achigere kukamurirwa nhaka yawo.

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

³Zvino Joshua akati kuvana vaIsiraeri, Muchanonoka kusvikira rinhiko kupinda nokutora nyika, yamakapiwa naJehovha Mwari wamadzibaba enyu?

³Joshua 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?

⁴Zvitsaurirei varume vatatu kurudzi rumwe norumwe, ini ndivatume, vasimuke vafambe nenyika, vagorondedzera nhaka yavo; ipapo vauye kwandiri.

⁴Appoint 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.

⁵Vanofanira kuiganhura vachiita migove minomwe; vaJudha vanofanira kugara panyika yavo kurutivi rwezasi, uye veimba yaJosefa vanofanira kugara panyika yavo kurutivi rwokumusoro.

⁵They 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.

⁶Zvino munofanira kurondedzera nyika, muchiita migove minomwe, mugouya nerondedzero kwandiri, ndikukandirei mijenya pano pamberi paJehovha Mwari wedu.

⁶You 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.

⁷nekuti vaRevhi havano mugove pakati penyu; nekuti upristi hwaJehovha ndiyo nhaka yavo; zvino vaGadhi navaRubheni, nehafu yorudzi rwaManase vakapiwa nhaka yavo mhiri kwaJoridhani kumabvazuva, yavakanga vapiwa naMozisi muranda waJehovha.

⁷For 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.”

⁸Zvino varume avo vakasimuka, vakaenda, Joshua akaraira ivavo vakaenda kundorondedzera nyika, akati, Endai, mufambe nenyika, muirondedzere, mugodzokera kwandiri, ndikukandirei mijenya pano pamberi paJehovha paShiro.

⁸The 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.”

⁹Varume vakaenda, vakafamba nenyika, vakarondedzera mubhuku nyika namaguta ayo, vachiita migove mina, vakasvika kuna Joshua pamisasa paShiro.

⁹The 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.

¹⁰Zvino Joshua akavakandira mijenya paShiro pamberi paJehovha; ipapo Joshua akagovera vana vaIsiraeri nyika sezvavakanga vakamurirwa.

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

¹¹Rudzi rwavana vaBhenjamini vakagoverwa mugove wavo nemhuri dzavo; nyika yomugove wavo yakanga iri pakati pavana vaJudha navana vaJosefa.

¹¹The 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.

¹²Muganhu wavo kurutivi rwokumusoro wakabva paJoridhani; zvino muganhu ndokukwira kurutivi rweJeriko nechokumusoro, ndokukwira nenyika yamakomo kumavirazuva, ndokuguma murenje reBheti-avheni.

¹²Their 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.

¹³Muganhu ndokubvapo, ndokupfuura napaRuzi, kurutivi rwezasi rweRuzi (ndiro Bheteri); zvino muganhu ndokuburukira Ataroti-adhari, pedo negomo riri zasi kweBheti-horoni rezasi.

¹³The 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.

¹⁴Muganhu ndokutarwa, uchibva pagomo riri pamberi peBheti-horoni zasi, ndokuguma paKiriati-bhaari (ndiro Kiriati-jearimi), guta ravana vaJudha; ndirwo rwaiva rutivi rwamavirazuva.

¹⁴The 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.

¹⁵Rutivi rwezasi rwakabva pamugumo weKiriatijearimi, muganhu ndokuramba uchienda kumavirazuva, ndokubudira kutsime remvura yeNefitoa;

¹⁵The 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.

¹⁶zvino muganhu ndokuburukira kumugumo wegomo riri pamberi pomupata womwanakomana waHinomi, mumupata weRefaimu kumusoro; ndokuburukira kumupata waHinomi, kurutivi rwavaJebhusi zasi, ndokuburukira Eni-rogeri;

¹⁶The 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.

¹⁷zvino ndokutarwa kurutivi rwokumusoro, kubva paEni-shemeshi kusvikira paGeriroti, rakatarisana nejinga reAdhumimi; ndokuburukira kubwe raBhohani, mwanakomana waRubheni;

¹⁷It 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.

¹⁸zvino ndokupfuurira kurutivi rwakatarisana neArabha, kumusoro, ndokuburukira kuArabha;

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

¹⁹muganhu ndokupfuura nokurutivi rweBheti-hogira kumusoro, ndokuguma kumusoro apo pakapinda nyika muGungwa roMunyu, kumugumo wezasi waJoridhani; ndiwo waiva muganhu wezasi.

¹⁹The 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.

²⁰Joridhani ndirwo rwakanga ruri muganhu wayo kumabvazuva. Ndiyo yakanga iri nhaka yavana vaBhenjamini, nemiganhu yayo kunhivi dzose, nemhuri dzavo.

²⁰The 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.

²¹Maguta orudzi rwavana vaBhenjamini, nemhuri dzavo, akanga ari Jeriko, neBheti-hogira, neEmeki-kezizi,

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

²²neBheti-arabha, neZemaraimi, neBheteri,

²²Beth Arabah, Zemaraim, Bethel,

²³neAvhimu, nePara, neOfura,

²³Avvim, Parah, Ophrah,

²⁴neKefari-amoni, neOfini, neGebha; maguta ane gumi namaviri nemisha yawo;

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

²⁵neGibhiyoni, neRama, neBheroti,

²⁵Gibeon, Ramah, Beeroth,

²⁶neMizipe, neKefira, neMoza,

²⁶Mizpeh, Chephirah, Mozah,

²⁷neRekemi, neIripeeri, neTarara,

²⁷Rekem, Irpeel, Taralah,

²⁸neZera, neErefi, neJebhusi (ndiro Jerusaremu), neGibhiyati, neKiriati; maguta ane gumi namana nemisha yawo; ndiyo yakanga iri nhaka yavana vaBhenjamini nemhuri dzavo.

²⁸Zelah, 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.