Joshua 13
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Joshua 13:15-33

15This is the part of the land that Moses gave to the clans of Reuben's tribe.

16He gave them the land from Aroer by the edge of the Arnon valley and the town in the middle of the valley.

17And he gave them all the flat land past Medeba in Heshbon. It included Dibon, Bamoth Baal, Beth Baal Meon,

18Jahaz and Kedemoth. It also included Mephaath,

19Kiriathaim, Sibmah and Zereth Shahar. Zereth was on a hill in the middle of the valley.

20Their land included Beth Peor, and the sides of Pisgah mountain, and Beth Jeshimoth town.

21Moses gave them all the towns on the flat land. He gave them all the land of Sihon, king of the Amorites. Sihon had ruled from Hebron. But Moses had won the fight against him and the Midianite kings, Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur and Reba. These kings had ruled with Sihon and they lived in his land.

22The Israelites had killed the prophet Balaam, son of Beor, when they killed soldiers in the battle. He had used magic to help Balak fight against Israel.

23The border of Reuben's land was the Jordan River. Moses gave these towns and their villages to the tribe of Reuben, family by family.

24This is the part of the land that Moses gave to the clans of Gad's tribe.

25He gave them the land of Jazer, the towns of Gilead and half the land of the Ammonites. Their land went as far as Aroer, a town which was near Rabbah.

26It went from Heshbon to Ramath Mizpah and Betonim, and from Mahanaim to the land of Debir.

27Moses gave Gad these towns in the valley: Beth Haram, Beth Nimrah, Succoth and Zaphon. He gave them the rest of the land of Sihon, king of Heshbon. This was on the east side of the Jordan River, up to the edge of the sea of Galilee.

28Moses gave these towns and their villages to the tribe of Gad, family by family.

29This is the land that Moses gave to half the tribe of Manasseh, clan by clan.

30He gave them the land from Mahanaim, the land of Bashan, all the land ruled by Og, king of Bashan. It included all the 60 towns of Jair in Bashan.

31It included half of Gilead, Ashtaroth and Edrei. (These were the cities that belonged to King Og in Bashan.) This land was for half the descendants of Makir, Manasseh's son, to live in, family by family.

32Moses gave all that land to those tribes, while they were still on the east side of the Jordan River. They were in Moab, on the flat land near Jericho.

33Moses gave no part of the land to Levi's tribe. The Lord himself, Israel's God, would be their part, as he had promised them.

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