Joshua 13

Canaan Divided among the Tribes

1Now 1Joshua was old and advanced in years when the Lord said to him, “You are old and advanced in years, and very much of the land remains to be possessed. 2This is the land that remains: all the regions of the Philistines and all those of the 2Geshurites; 3from the Shihor which is 3east of Egypt, even as far as the border of Ekron to the north (it is counted as Canaanite); the 4five lords of the Philistines: the Gazite, the Ashdodite, the Ashkelonite, the Gittite, the Ekronite; and the Avvite 45to the south, all the land of the Canaanite, and Mearah that belongs to the Sidonians, as far as 6Aphek, to the border of the 7Amorite; 5and the land of the 8Gebalite, and all of Lebanon, toward the 9east, 10from Baal-gad below Mount Hermon as far as 11Lebo-hamath. 6All the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon as far as 12Misrephoth-maim, all the Sidonians, I will 13drive them out from before the sons of Israel; 14only allot it to Israel for an inheritance as I have commanded you. 7Now therefore, apportion this land for an inheritance to the nine tribes and the half-tribe of Manasseh.”

8With 15the other half-tribe, the Reubenites and the Gadites received their inheritance which Moses gave them 16beyond the Jordan to the east, just as Moses the servant of the Lord gave to them; 9from Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, with the city which is in the middle of the valley, and all the plain of Medeba, as far as Dibon; 10and all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, as far as the border of the sons of Ammon; 11and 17Gilead, and the 18territory of the Geshurites and Maacathites, and all Mount Hermon, and all Bashan as far as Salecah; 12all the kingdom of 19Og in Bashan, who reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei (he alone was left of the remnant of the Rephaim); for Moses 20struck them and dispossessed them. 13But the sons of Israel did not dispossess the Geshurites or the Maacathites; for Geshur and Maacath live among Israel until this day. 1421Only to the tribe of Levi he did not give an inheritance; the offerings by fire to the Lord, the God of Israel, are 22their inheritance, as He spoke to him.

15So Moses gave an inheritance to the tribe of the sons of Reuben according to their families. 16Their 23territory was 24from Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, with the city which is in the middle of the valley and all the plain by Medeba; 17Heshbon, and all its cities which are on the plain: Dibon and Bamoth-baal and Beth-baal-meon, 18and 25Jahaz and Kedemoth and Mephaath, 19and 26Kiriathaim and Sibmah and Zereth-shahar on the hill of the valley, 20and Beth-peor and the slopes of Pisgah and Beth-jeshimoth, 21even 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, 27Evi and Rekem and Zur and Hur and Reba, the princes of Sihon, who lived in the land. 22The sons of Israel also killed 28Balaam the son of Beor, the diviner, with the sword among the rest of their slain. 23The border of the sons of Reuben was the 29Jordan. This was the inheritance of the sons of Reuben according to their families, the cities and their villages.

24Moses also gave an inheritance to the tribe of Gad, to the sons of Gad, according to their families. 25Their territory was 30Jazer, and all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the sons of Ammon, as far as Aroer which is before Rabbah; 26and from Heshbon as far as Ramath-mizpeh and Betonim, and from Mahanaim as far as the border of 31Debir; 27and in the valley, Beth-haram and Beth-nimrah and Succoth and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, with the Jordan 32as a border, as far as the lower end of the Sea of 3334Chinnereth beyond the Jordan to the east. 28This is the inheritance of the sons of Gad according to their families, the cities and their villages.

29Moses also gave an inheritance to the half-tribe of Manasseh; and it was for the half-tribe of the sons of Manasseh according to their families. 30Their territory was from Mahanaim, all Bashan, all the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and all 35the 36towns of Jair, which are in Bashan, sixty cities; 31also half of Gilead, with 37Ashtaroth and Edrei, the cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan, were for the sons of Machir the son of Manasseh, for half of the sons of Machir according to their families.

32These are the territories which Moses apportioned for an inheritance in the plains of Moab, beyond the Jordan at Jericho to the east. 33But 38to the tribe of Levi, Moses did not give an inheritance; the Lord, the God of Israel, is their inheritance, as He had 39promised to them.