Deuteronomy 3
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Deuteronomy 3:4-13

4We captured all his cities at that time – there was not a town we did not take from them – sixty cities, all the region of Argob, the dominion of Og in Bashan.

5All of these cities were fortified by high walls, gates, and locking bars; in addition there were a great many open villages.

6We put all of these under divine judgment just as we had done to King Sihon of Heshbon – every occupied city, including women and children.

7But all the livestock and plunder from the cities we kept for ourselves.

8So at that time we took the land of the two Amorite kings in the Transjordan from Wadi Arnon to Mount Hermon

9(the Sidonians call Hermon Sirion and the Amorites call it Senir),

10all the cities of the plateau, all of Gilead and Bashan as far as Salecah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.

11Only King Og of Bashan was left of the remaining Rephaites. (It is noteworthy that his sarcophagus was made of iron. Does it not, indeed, still remain in Rabbath of the Ammonites? It is thirteen and a half feet long and six feet wide according to standard measure.)

12This is the land we brought under our control at that time: The territory extending from Aroer by the Wadi Arnon and half the Gilead hill country with its cities I gave to the Reubenites and Gadites.

13The rest of Gilead and all of Bashan, the kingdom of Og, I gave to half the tribe of Manasseh. (All the region of Argob, that is, all Bashan, is called the land of Rephaim.

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