This is the coast of the children of Judah, round about according to their families That is, thus the lot was bounded on all sides in the first draught of it. Which being afterward found too large, it was contracted into a narrower compass, that more room might be made for the tribe of Simeon, who had part of this lot consigned to them; as some other places were added out of it to the tribes of Benjamin and Dan, as will afterward appear.
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Joshua 15:12
12 And the west border was to the great sea, and the coast thereof. This is the coast of the children of Judah round about according to their families.