1 Now Joshua was old and well stricken in years; and Yahweh said to
him, You are old and well stricken in years, and there remains yet very much
land to be possessed. 2 This is the land that yet 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
reckoned to the Canaanites; 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; them
will I drive out from before the children of Israel: only allot you 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 Yahweh 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 (the same was left of the
remnant of the Rephaim); for these did Moses strike, and drove them out.
13 Nevertheless the children of Israel didn’t drive out the Geshurites,
nor the Maacathites: but Geshur and Maacath dwell in the midst of Israel to
this day. 14 Only to the tribe of Levi he gave no inheritance; the
offerings of Yahweh, 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, and Bamoth Baal, and Beth Baal Meon, 18 and
Jahaz, and Kedemoth, and Mephaath, 19 and Kiriathaim, and Sibmah, and
Zereth-shahar in the mount of the valley, 20 and Beth Peor, and the slopes
of Pisgah, and Beth-jeshimoth, 21 and 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, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba,
the princes of Sihon, who lived in the land. 22 Balaam also the son of
Beor, the soothsayer, did the children of Israel kill with the sword among
the rest of their slain. 23 The border of the children of Reuben was the
Jordan, and the border of it. This was the inheritance of the
children of Reuben according to their families, the cities and the villages
of it. 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
before 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, and
Beth Nimrah, and Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king
of Heshbon, the Jordan and the border of it, 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 the villages of it. 29 Moses gave inheritance to the
half-tribe of Manasseh: and 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 towns of Jair,
which are in Bashan, sixty cities: 31 and half Gilead, and 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 to the tribe of Levi Moses gave no inheritance: Yahweh, the God of
Israel, is their inheritance, as he spoke to them.
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