39. These towns and their villages were the inheritance of the tribe of Naphtali, according to its clans.
40. The seventh lot came out for the tribe of Dan according to its clans.
41. The territory of their inheritance included: Zorah, Eshtaol, Ir Shemesh,
42. Shaalabbin, Aijalon, Ithlah,
43. Elon, Timnah, Ekron,
44. Eltekeh, Gibbethon, Baalath,
45. Jehud, Bene Berak, Gath Rimmon,
46. Me Jarkon and Rakkon, with the area facing Joppa.
47. (When the territory of the Danites was lost to them, they went up and attacked Leshem, took it, put it to the sword and occupied it. They settled in Leshem and named it Dan after their ancestor.)
48. These towns and their villages were the inheritance of the tribe of Dan, according to its clans.
49. When they had finished dividing the land into its allotted portions, the Israelites gave Joshua son of Nun an inheritance among them,
50. as the Lord had commanded. They gave him the town he asked for—Timnath Serah in the hill country of Ephraim. And he built up the town and settled there.