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1 Now
Joshua was old
and well advanced
in years. The
LORD said to him,
“You are old
and advanced in
years, and there
remains yet very
much land to be
possessed.
2 “This
is the land
that still remains:
all the regions
of the Philistines,
and all the
Geshurites;
3 from
the Shihor, which
is before Egypt,
even to the
border of Ekron
northward, which
is counted as
Canaanite; the
five lords of
the Philistines;
the Gazites, and
the Ashdodites, the Ashkelonites,
the Gittites, and
the Ekronites;
also the Avvim,
4 on
the south; all
the land of
the Canaanites,
and Mearah
that belongs to
the Sidonians,
to Aphek, to the
border of
the Amorites;
5 and
the land of the
Gebalites, and all
Lebanon, toward
the sunrise,
from Baal Gad under
Mount Hermon to
the entrance of
Hamath;
6 all
the inhabitants of
the hill country
from Lebanon to
Misrephoth Maim, even
all the Sidonians.
I will drive
them out from
before the
children of Israel.
Just allocate it
to Israel for
an inheritance, as
I have commanded
you.
7 Now
therefore divide
this land for
an inheritance to
the nine tribes
and the half-tribe
of Manasseh.”
8 With
him the Reubenites
and the Gadites
received their
inheritance, which
Moses gave them,
beyond the Jordan
eastward, even as
Moses the servant
of the LORD
gave them:
9 from
Aroer, that is
on the edge
of the valley
of the Arnon, and
the city that
is in the
middle of the
valley, and all
the plain of
Medeba to Dibon;
10 and
all the cities
of Sihon king
of the Amorites,
who reigned in
Heshbon, to the
border of the
children of Ammon;
11 and
Gilead, and the
border of the
Geshurites and
Maacathites, and
all Mount Hermon,
and all Bashan
to Salecah;
12 all
the kingdom of
Og in Bashan,
who reigned in
Ashtaroth and
in Edrei (who was
left of the
remnant of the
Rephaim); for
Moses attacked
these, and drove
them out.
13 Nevertheless
the children of
Israel didn’t drive
out the Geshurites,
nor the
Maacathites: but
Geshur and Maacath
live within Israel
to this day.
14 Only
he gave no
inheritance to the
tribe of Levi.
The offerings of
the LORD, the
God of Israel,
made by fire are
his inheritance,
as he spoke
to him.
15 Moses
gave to the
tribe of the
children of
Reuben according to
their families.
16 Their
border was from
Aroer, that is
on the edge
of the valley
of the Arnon, and
the city that
is in the
middle of the
valley, and all
the plain by
Medeba;
17 Heshbon,
and all its
cities that are
in the plain;
Dibon, Bamoth Baal,
Beth Baal Meon,
18 Jahaz,
Kedemoth, Mephaath,
19 Kiriathaim,
Sibmah, Zereth Shahar in
the mount of
the valley,
20 Beth Peor, the slopes of
Pisgah, Beth Jeshimoth,
21 all
the cities of
the plain, and
all the kingdom
of Sihon king
of the Amorites,
who reigned in
Heshbon, whom Moses
struck with the
chiefs of Midian,
Evi, Rekem, Zur,
Hur, and Reba,
the princes of
Sihon, who lived
in the land.
22 The
children of Israel
also killed Balaam
the son of
Beor, the
soothsayer, with
the sword, among
the rest of their
slain.
23 The
border of the
children of Reuben
was the bank of
the Jordan. This
was the
inheritance of the
children of
Reuben according to
their families,
the cities and
its villages.
24 Moses
gave to the
tribe of Gad,
to the children
of Gad, according
to their families.
25 Their
border was Jazer,
and all the
cities of Gilead,
and half the
land of the
children of Ammon,
to Aroer that
is near Rabbah;
26 and
from Heshbon
to Ramath Mizpeh, and Betonim;
and from Mahanaim
to the border
of Debir;
27 and
in the valley, Beth
Haram, Beth Nimrah, Succoth, and
Zaphon, the rest
of the kingdom
of Sihon king
of Heshbon, the
Jordan’s bank, to
the uttermost part
of the sea
of Chinnereth
beyond the Jordan
eastward.
28 This
is the inheritance
of the children
of Gad according
to their families,
the cities and
its villages.
29 Moses
gave an inheritance
to the half-tribe
of Manasseh. It
was for the
half-tribe of the
children of
Manasseh according to
their families.
30 Their
border was from
Mahanaim, all
Bashan, all the
kingdom of Og
king of Bashan,
and all
the villages of
Jair, which are
in Bashan, sixty
cities.
31 Half
Gilead, Ashtaroth,
and Edrei, the
cities of the
kingdom of Og
in Bashan, were
for the children
of Machir the
son of Manasseh,
even for the
half of the
children of
Machir according to their
families.
32 These are
the inheritances which Moses
distributed in the
plains of Moab,
beyond the Jordan
at Jericho,
eastward.
33 But
Moses gave no
inheritance to the
tribe of Levi.
The LORD, the
God of Israel,
is their
inheritance, as he
spoke to them.