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Judges 1:21-34 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

21. But the sons of Benjamin did not wipe out the Jebusite inhabitants of Jerusalem. And the Jebusite has lived with the sons of Benjamin in Jerusalem, even to the present day.

22. The house of Joseph also ascended against Bethel, and the Lord was with them.

23. For when they were besieging the city, which was previously called Luz,

24. they saw a man departing from the city, and they said to him, "Reveal to us the entrance to the city, and we will act with mercy toward you."

25. And when he had revealed it to them, they struck the city with the edge of the sword. But that man, and all his relatives, they released.

26. And having been sent away, he went out to the land of the Hittites, and he built a city there, and he called it Luz. And so it is called, even to the present day.

27. Likewise, Manasseh did not destroy Bethshean and Taanach, with their villages, nor the inhabitants of Dor and Ibleam and Megiddo, with their villages. And the Canaanite began to live with them.

28. Then, after Israel had grown strong, he made them tributaries, but he was not willing to destroy them.

29. And now Ephraim did not put to death the Canaanite, who was living at Gezer; instead, he lived with him.

30. Zebulun did not wipe out the inhabitants of Kitron and of Nahalal. Instead, the Canaanite lived in their midst and became their tributary.

31. Likewise, Asher did not destroy the inhabitants of Acco and Sidon, Ahlab and Achzib, and Helbah, and Aphik, and Rehob.

32. And he lived in the midst of the Canaanites, the inhabitants of that land, for he did not put them to death.

33. Naphtali also did not wipe out the inhabitants of Beth-shemesh and Bethanath. And he lived among the Canaanite inhabitants of the land. And the Beth-shemeshites and Bethanathites were tributaries to him.

34. And the Amorite hemmed in the sons of Dan on the mountain, and did not give them a place, so that they might descend to the flatlands.

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