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Land Still to Be Conquered

¹ Now Joshua ^(a)was old and advanced in years, and the Lord said to him, "You are old and advanced in years, and there remains yet very much land ^(b)to possess. ^2 (c)This is the land that yet remains: all the ^(d)regions of the Philistines, and all those of the Geshurites ³ (from the ^(e)Shihor, which is east of Egypt, northward to the boundary of Ekron, it is counted as Canaanite; ^(f)there are five rulers of the Philistines, those of Gaza, Ashdod, Ashkelon, Gath, and Ekron), and those of ^(g)the Avvim, ⁴ in the south, all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah that belongs to the Sidonians, to Aphek, to the boundary of ^(h)the Amorites, ⁵ and the land of the ⁽ⁱ⁾Gebalites, and all Lebanon, toward the sunrise, from ^(j)Baal-gad below Mount Hermon to ^(k)Lebo-hamath, ⁶ all the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon to ^(l)Misrephoth-maim, even all the Sidonians. I myself will drive ^(m)them out from before the people of Israel. Only ⁽ⁿ⁾allot the land to Israel ^(o)for an inheritance, as I have commanded you. ⁷ Now therefore ^(p)divide this land for an inheritance to the nine tribes and half the tribe of Manasseh."

The Inheritance East of the Jordan

⁸ With the other half of the tribe of Manasseh^[a] the Reubenites and the Gadites received their inheritance, ^(q)which Moses gave them, beyond the Jordan eastward, as Moses the servant of the Lord gave them: ^9 (r)from Aroer, which is on the edge of the Valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the valley, and ^(s)all the tableland of Medeba as far as Dibon; ^10 (t)and all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, as far as the boundary of the Ammonites; ¹¹ and Gilead, and the ^(u)region of the Geshurites and Maacathites, and all Mount Hermon, and ^(v)all Bashan to Salecah; ^12 (w)all the kingdom of Og in Bashan, who reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei (he alone was left of ^(x)the remnant of the Rephaim); ^(y)these Moses had struck and driven out. ^13 (z)Yet the people of Israel did not drive out the Geshurites or the Maacathites, but Geshur and Maacath dwell in the midst of Israel to this day.

^14 (aa)To the tribe of Levi alone Moses gave no inheritance. The offerings by fire to the Lord God of Israel are their inheritance, as he said to him.

¹⁵ And Moses gave an inheritance to the tribe of the people of Reuben according to their clans. ¹⁶ So their territory was from Aroer, ^(ab)which is on the edge of the Valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the valley, and all the tableland by ^(ac)Medeba; ¹⁷ with Heshbon, and all its cities that are in the tableland; ^(ad)Dibon, and Bamoth-baal, and Beth-baal-meon, ^18 (ae)and Jahaz, and Kedemoth, and Mephaath, ¹⁹ and ^(af)Kiriathaim, and ^(ag)Sibmah, and Zereth-shahar on the hill of the valley, ²⁰ and ^(ah)Beth-peor, and ^(ai)the slopes of Pisgah, and ^(aj)Beth-jeshimoth, ²¹ that is, ^(ak)all the cities of the tableland, and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, ^(al)whom Moses defeated with ^(am)the leaders of Midian, Evi and Rekem and Zur and Hur and Reba, the princes of Sihon, who lived in the land. ^22 (an)Balaam also, the son of Beor, the one who practiced divination, was killed with the sword by the people of Israel among the rest of their slain. ²³ And the border of the people of Reuben was the Jordan as a boundary. This was the inheritance of the people of Reuben, according to their clans with their cities and villages.

²⁴ Moses gave an inheritance also to the tribe of Gad, to the people of Gad, according to their clans. ^25 (ao)Their territory was Jazer, and all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the Ammonites, to Aroer, which is east of ^(ap)Rabbah, ²⁶ and from Heshbon to Ramath-mizpeh and Betonim, and from ^(aq)Mahanaim to the territory of Debir,^{[b] 27} and in the valley Beth-haram, Beth-nimrah, ^(ar)Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, having the Jordan as a boundary, to the lower end of the Sea of ^(as)Chinnereth, eastward beyond the Jordan. ²⁸ This is the inheritance of the people of Gad according to their clans, with their cities and villages.

²⁹ And Moses gave an inheritance to the half-tribe of Manasseh. It was allotted to the half-tribe of the people of Manasseh according to their clans. ³⁰ Their region extended from ^(at)Mahanaim, through all Bashan, the whole kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and all ^(au)the towns of Jair, which are in Bashan, sixty cities, ³¹ and half Gilead, and ^(av)Ashtaroth, and Edrei, the cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan. These were allotted to the people of ^(aw)Machir the son of Manasseh for the half of the people of Machir according to their clans.

³² These are the inheritances that Moses distributed ^(ax)in the plains of Moab, beyond the Jordan east of Jericho. ^33 (ay)But to the tribe of Levi Moses gave no inheritance; the Lord God of Israel is their inheritance, ^(az)just as he said to them.