יהושע, פרק ט״ו, פסוק ל״ט

The ongoing record of the tribal lands allocated to Judah continues to map out the additional settlements scattered across the region.

Great care was taken throughout history to preserve the precise pronunciation of these ancient city names. To prevent any loss of the oral tradition, scholars ensured that the exact way of reading these locations was clearly recorded. By maintaining absolute accuracy in the oldest printed texts, they guaranteed that the spoken tradition of the text remained perfectly intact [מנחת שי].