1. Then the second lot came out for Simeon, for the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their clans. Now their portion was in the midst of the portion of the children of Judah.
2. They had for their inheritance: Beersheba (or Sheba), Moladah,
3. Hazar-shual, Balah, Ezem,
4. El-tolad, Bethul, Hormah,
5. Ziklag, Beth-marcaboth, Hazar-susah,
6. Beth-lebaoth and Sharuhen—13 towns with their villages;
7. also Ain, Rimmon, Ether and Ashan—4 towns with their villages;
8. all the villages that were around these towns as far as Baalath-beer, Ramah of the Negev. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their clans.