Joshua 13:15

Easy-to-Read Version

Moses had given each family group from the tribe of Reuben some land. This is the land they received:

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
To the tribe of Reuben’s descendants by their clans, Moses gave

Hebrew Names Version
Moshe gave to the tribe of the children of Re'uven according to their families.

King James Version
And Moses gave unto the tribe of the children of Reuben inheritance according to their families.

Lexham English Bible
Moses gave an inheritance to the tribe of the descendants of Reuben according to their families.

English Standard Version
And Moses gave an inheritance to the tribe of the people of Reuben according to their clans.

New Century Version
Moses had given each family group from the tribe of Reuben some land:

New English Translation
Moses assigned land to the tribe of Reuben by its clans.

Amplified Bible
So Moses gave an inheritance to the tribe of the sons of Reuben according to their families.

New American Standard Bible
So Moses gave an inheritance to the tribe of the sons of Reuben according to their families.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Moses then gaue vnto the tribe of the children of Reuben inheritance, according to their families.

Legacy Standard Bible
So Moses gave an inheritance to the tribe of the sons of Reuben according to their families.

Contemporary English Version
Moses gave land to each of the clans in the Reuben tribe.

Complete Jewish Bible
Moshe gave land to the tribe of the descendants of Re'uven by clans.

Darby Translation
And Moses gave [a portion] to the tribe of the children of Reuben according to their families.

George Lamsa Translation
And Moses gave an inheritance to the tribe of the Reubenites according to their families.

Good News Translation
Moses had given a part of the land to the families of the tribe of Reuben as their possession.

Literal Translation
And Moses gave to the tribe of the sons of Reuben, for their families;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
So Moses gaue vnto the trybe of ye children of Ruben after their kynreds,

American Standard Version
And Moses gave unto the tribe of the children of Reuben according to their families.

Bible in Basic English
And Moses gave their heritage to the tribe of Reuben by their families.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Moyses gaue vnto the tribe of the children of Ruben inheritaunce, according to their kinredes:

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And Moses gave unto the tribe of the children of Reuben according to their families.

King James Version (1611)
And Moses gaue vnto the tribe of the children of Reuben inheritance according to their families:

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And Moses gave the land to the tribe of Ruben according to their families.

English Revised Version
And Moses gave unto the tribe of the children of Reuben according to their families.

Berean Standard Bible
This is what Moses had given to the clans of the tribe of Reuben:

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Therfor Moises yaf possessioun to the lynage of the sones of Ruben, bi her kynredis;

Young's Literal Translation
And Moses giveth to the tribe of the sons of Reuben, for their families;

Update Bible Version
And Moses gave to the tribe of the sons of Reuben according to their families.

Webster's Bible Translation
And Moses gave to the tribe of the children of Reuben [inheritance] according to their families.

World English Bible
Moses gave to the tribe of the children of Reuben according to their families.

New King James Version
And Moses had given to the tribe of the children of Reuben an inheritance according to their families.

New Living Translation
Moses had assigned the following area to the clans of the tribe of Reuben.

New Life Bible
Moses gave land to the family group of the Reubenites by their families.

New Revised Standard
Moses gave an inheritance to the tribe of the Reubenites according to their clans.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Thus then Moses gave an inheritance unto the tribe of the sons of Reuben by their families;

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Moses gave a possession to the children of Ruben according to their kindreds.

Revised Standard Version
And Moses gave an inheritance to the tribe of the Reubenites according to their families.

THE MESSAGE
To the tribe of Reuben, clan by clan, Moses gave: the land from Aroer at the edge of the Arnon Gorge and the town in the middle of the valley, including the tableland around Medeba; Heshbon on the tableland with all its towns (Dibon, Bamoth Baal, Beth Baal Meon, Jahaz, Kedemoth, Mephaath, Kiriathaim, Sibmah, Zereth Shahar on Valley Mountain, Beth Peor, the slopes of Pisgah, Beth Jeshimoth); and all the cities of the tableland, the whole kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, who ruled at Heshbon, whom Moses put to death along with the princes of Midian: Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, who lived in that country, all puppets of Sihon. (In addition to those killed in battle, Balaam son of Beor, the soothsayer, was put to death by the People of Israel.)

New American Standard Bible (1995)
So Moses gave an inheritance to the tribe of the sons of Reuben according to their families.

Contextual Overview

¹⁵ Moses had given each family group from the tribe of Reuben some land. This is the land they received: ¹⁶ It was the land from Aroer near the Arnon Ravine to the town of Medeba. This included the whole plain and the town in the middle of the ravine. ¹⁷ The land continued to Heshbon. It included all the towns on the plain. Those towns were Dibon, Bamoth Baal, Beth Baal Meon, ¹⁸ Jahaz, Kedemoth, Mephaath, ¹⁹ Kiriathaim, Sibmah, Zereth Shahar on the hill in the valley, ²⁰ Beth Peor, the hills of Pisgah, and Beth Jeshimoth. ²¹ So that land included all the towns on the plain and all the area that King Sihon of the Amorites had ruled. He ruled in the town of Heshbon, but Moses had defeated him and the leaders of the Midianites. Those leaders were Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba. (They all fought together with Sihon.) All of them lived in that country. ²² The Israelites defeated Balaam son of Beor. (Balaam tried to use magic to tell the future.) The Israelites killed many people during the fighting. ²³ The land that was given to Reuben stopped at the shore of the Jordan River. So the land that was given to the family groups of Reuben included all these towns and their fields that were listed.

Bible Verse Review
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Reciprocal: Exodus 6:14 - these be Joshua 22:4 - get Judges 11:20 - General 1 Chronicles 5:8 - Aroer Ezekiel 48:6 - Reuben

Cross-References

Genesis 12:7
The Lord appeared to Abram and said, "I will give this land to your descendants." Abram built an altar to honor the Lord who appeared to him there.

Genesis 13:1
So Abram left Egypt. He traveled through the Negev with his wife and everything he owned. Lot was also with them.

Genesis 13:2
At this time Abram was very rich. He had many animals and much silver and gold.

Genesis 13:3
Abram continued traveling around. He left the Negev and went back to Bethel. He went to the place between the city of Bethel and Ai, where he and his family had camped before.

Genesis 13:4
This was where Abram had built an altar earlier. So he worshiped the Lord there.

Genesis 13:7
(The Canaanites and the Perizzites were also living in this land at the same time.) The shepherds of Abram and Lot began to argue.

Genesis 13:8
So Abram said to Lot, "There should be no arguing between you and me or between your people and my people. We are all brothers.

Genesis 13:9
We should separate. You can choose any place you want. If you go to the left, I will go to the right. If you go to the right, I will go to the left."

Genesis 13:12
Abram stayed in the land of Canaan, and Lot lived among the cities in the valley. Lot moved as far as Sodom and made his camp there.

Genesis 15:18
So on that day the Lord made a promise and an agreement with Abram. He said, "I will give this land to your descendants. I will give them the land between the River of Egypt and the great river Euphrates.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Moses gave unto the tribe of the children of Reuben [inheritance] according to their families. According to the number of them, and sufficient for them.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The writer appends to the command of God Joshua 13:1-7 a statement that the other two tribes and a half had already had their inheritance marked out for them by Moses in the land east of Jordan. The boundaries of this territory as a whole are first set forth Joshua 13:8-14, and afterward the portions assigned within it to the two tribes and a half are severally described Joshua 13:15-33.

Joshua 13:14

See Deuteronomy 18:1-5 and notes.

Joshua 13:15-24

Inheritance of the tribe of Reuben. This territory was the most southerly of the trans-Jordanic possessions of Israel, and adjoined Moab, which lay only on the other side of the Arnon. Hence, the Reubenites became in after times much intermixed with the Moabites, who in fact eventually acquired much of the land, and several, if not all, of the cities here named as belonging to Reuben. This acquisition was probably assisted by the fact that the territory north of Arnon had formerly belonged to the Moabites, from whom it was wrested by the Amorites (see Numbers 21:27, etc. notes). It is not likely that the Amorite conquerors had completely extirpated the Moabite inhabitants. Hence, in the days when the Reubenites became engrossed in their pastoral pursuits, and probably not very long after the days of Joshua, the Moabites easily encroached on their inheritance, and in the end probably reoccupied nearly the whole of the ancient kingdom of Sihon (Compare Deuteronomy 33:6 note).

Joshua 13:17-21

See the marginal references for some of these names. Heshbon, Kedemoth, and Mephaath became eventually Levitical cities.

Joshua 13:21

Dukes of Sihon - Rather “vassals of Sihon,” probably those “dedicated” or “appointed” with a libation.

Joshua 13:23

Jordan ... - i. e. the Jordan and its territory (compare similar expressions in Numbers 34:6; Deuteronomy 3:16). The portion of the tribe of Reuben at its northern extremity touched the Jordan; the main part of his inheritance lay on the east of the Dead Sea.

Joshua 13:25

All the cities of Gilead - i. e. of Gilead in the narrower sense, included in the territory of Sihon, and distinct from Bashan Deuteronomy 3:10.

Half the land of the children of Ammon - i. e. that half of the Ammonite territory which had been conquered by the Amorites. This, after the overthrow of Sihon, the Israelites took for their own. The land which the Ammonites still held in the days of Moses, the Israelites were not permitted to attack.

Rabbah was a border fortress, the principal stronghold of the Ammonites Numbers 21:24, and the residence of their king. It was attacked and taken by Joab 2 Samuel 11:0; 2 Samuel 12:0; 1 Chronicles 20:1, but appears in later times again as an Ammonitish city Jeremiah 49:3; Ezekiel 25:5; Amos 1:13-15. In the third century B.C. it received from Ptolemy Philadelplus the name of Philadelphia, and was in later times the seat of a Christian bishop; but has now for many centuries been in ruins, remarkable for their grandeur and extent.

Joshua 13:26

The border of Debir - Rather perhaps “the border of Lidbir,” which is regarded as identical with the Lo-debar of 2 Samuel 9:4; 2 Samuel 17:27, one of the towns from which provisions were brought to David at Mahanaim Genesis 32:2.

Joshua 13:29-33

On the conquest of Bashan, see especially Numbers 32:33, etc. and notes.