JOSHUA 18:20 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“And Jordan was the border of it on the east side. This was the inheritance of the children of Benjamin, by the coasts thereof round about, according to their families.”
The Jordan forms its boundary on the east side. This is the inheritance of the people of Benjamin, according to their families, by their borders all around — The Jordan as Benjamin's eastern border establishes the covenant geography: the river separates inhabited Canaan from the wilderness, settlement from marginality. The repeated phrase 'by their borders all around' (legbûlôtam sâbîb) emphasizes the completeness and precision of the allotment. Benjamin's inheritance is both geographically precise and family-based ('according to their families,' leqiblatîhem), binding territorial and kinship identity.
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