Joshua 13
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Joshua 13:7-32

7Now therefore, apportion this land as an inheritance to the nine tribes and the half-tribe of Manasseh.”

8With 1the other half-tribe, the Reubenites and the Gadites received their inheritance which Moses gave them 2beyond 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 3Gilead, and the 4territory of the Geshurites and Maacathites, and all Mount Hermon, and all Bashan as far as Salecah; 12all the kingdom of 5Og in Bashan, who reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei (he alone was left of the remnant of the Rephaim); for Moses 6struck them and 7drove them out. 13But the sons of Israel did not 8drive out the Geshurites or the Maacathites; instead, Geshur and Maacath live among Israel to this day. 149Only to the tribe of Levi he did not give an inheritance; the offerings by fire to the Lord, the God of Israel, are 10their inheritance, as He spoke to him.

15So Moses gave an inheritance to the tribe of the sons of Reuben according to their families. 16Their 11territory was 12from 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, Bamoth-baal, Beth-baal-meon, 1813Jahaz, Kedemoth, Mephaath, 1914Kiriathaim, Sibmah, Zereth-shahar on the hill of the valley, 20Beth-peor, the slopes of Pisgah, 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 leaders of Midian, 15Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, the leaders of Sihon, who lived in the land. 22The sons of Israel also killed 16Balaam the son of Beor, the diviner, with the sword among the rest of their dead. 23The border of the sons of Reuben was the 17Jordan. 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 18Jazer and all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the sons of Ammon, as far as Aroer which is opposite Rabbah; 26and from Heshbon as far as Ramath-mizpeh and Betonim, and from Mahanaim as far as the border of 19Debir; 27and in the valley, Beth-haram, Beth-nimrah, Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, with the Jordan 20as a border, as far as the lower end of the Sea of 2122Chinnereth 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 23the 24towns of Jair, which are in Bashan, sixty cities; 31also half of Gilead, with 25Ashtaroth 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 as an inheritance in the plains of Moab, beyond the Jordan at Jericho to the east.

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Notes

  1. 1. Joshua 13:8 Lit it, the ↩
  2. 2. Joshua 13:8 Josh 12:1-6 ↩
  3. 3. Joshua 13:11 Gen 37:25; Num 32:29; Josh 13:25; 17:5f ↩
  4. 4. Joshua 13:11 Or border ↩
  5. 5. Joshua 13:12 Deut 3:11 ↩
  6. 6. Joshua 13:12 Num 21:24 ↩
  7. 7. Joshua 13:12 Or dispossessed them ↩
  8. 8. Joshua 13:13 Or dispossess ↩
  9. 9. Joshua 13:14 Deut 18:1, 2 ↩
  10. 10. Joshua 13:14 Lit his ↩
  11. 11. Joshua 13:16 Or border ↩
  12. 12. Joshua 13:16 Josh 13:9 ↩
  13. 13. Joshua 13:18 Num 21:23; Judg 11:20; Is 15:4; Jer 48:34 ↩
  14. 14. Joshua 13:19 Num 32:37; Jer 48:1, 23; Ezek 25:9 ↩
  15. 15. Joshua 13:21 Num 31:8 ↩
  16. 16. Joshua 13:22 Num 31:8 ↩
  17. 17. Joshua 13:23 Lit Jordan and border ↩
  18. 18. Joshua 13:25 Num 21:32; Josh 21:39; 2 Sam 24:5; 1 Chr 6:81; 26:31; Is 16:8f; Jer 48:32 ↩
  19. 19. Joshua 13:26 Or Lidebir ↩
  20. 20. Joshua 13:27 Lit and border ↩
  21. 21. Joshua 13:27 I.e., Galilee ↩
  22. 22. Joshua 13:27 Num 34:11; Deut 3:17 ↩
  23. 23. Joshua 13:30 Num 32:41 ↩
  24. 24. Joshua 13:30 Lit tent villages ↩
  25. 25. Joshua 13:31 Josh 9:10; 12:4; 13:12; Judg 10:6; 1 Sam 7:3f; 12:10; 1 Chr 6:71 ↩

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