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Israel Takes Possession of the Land

¹ "^(C1)Then we turned and went up the road to Bashan, and Og king of Bashan, ^(F1)with all his people, came out to meet us in battle at Edrei.² "But Yahweh said to me, 'Do not fear him, for I have given him and all his people and his land over into your hand; and you shall do to him just as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon.'³ "So Yahweh our God also gave Og, king of Bashan, with all his people over into our hand, and we struck ^(F1)them until ^(F2)there was no survivor remaining for him.⁴ "And we captured all his cities at that time; there was not a town which we did not take from them: sixty cities, all the region of ^(C1)Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.⁵ "All these were cities fortified with high walls, gates and bars, besides a great many ^(F1)unwalled towns.⁶ "And we ^(F1)devoted them to destruction, as we did to ^(C1)Sihon king of Heshbon, ^(F2)(C2)devoting to destruction ^(F3)the men, women, and little ones of every city.⁷ "^(C1)But all the animals and the spoil of the cities we took as our plunder.

⁸ "^(C1)Thus we took the land at that time from the hand of the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, from the ^(F1)valley of Arnon to Mount Hermon⁹ (Sidonians ^(C1)call Hermon ^(C2)Sirion, and the Amorites call it ^(C3)Senir):¹⁰ all the cities of the plateau and all Gilead and ^(C1)all Bashan, as far as Salecah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.¹¹ (For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of the ^(C1)Rephaim. Behold, his ^(F1)bedstead was an iron ^(F1)bedstead; it is in ^(C2)Rabbah of the sons of Ammon. Its length was ^(F2)nine cubits, and its width four cubits ^(F3)by ordinary cubit.)

¹² "So we took possession of this land at that time. From ^(C1)Aroer, which is by the ^(F1)valley of Arnon, and half the hill country of ^(C2)Gilead and its cities I gave to the Reubenites and to the Gadites.¹³ "And the rest of Gilead and all Bashan, the kingdom of Og, I gave to the half-tribe of Manasseh, all the region of Argob. (Concerning all Bashan, it is called the land of Rephaim.^14 (C1)Jair the son of Manasseh took all the region of Argob as far as the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites and called ^(F1)it—that is, Bashan—after his own name, ^(F2)Havvoth-jair, as it is to this day.)¹⁵ "^(C1)And to Machir I gave Gilead.¹⁶ "And to the Reubenites and to the Gadites I gave from Gilead even as far as the ^(F1)valley of Arnon, the middle of the ^(F1)valley ^(F2)as a border and as far as the ^(F1)river ^(C1)Jabbok, the border of the sons of Ammon;¹⁷ the Arabah also, with the Jordan ^(F1)as a border, from ^(F2)(C1)Chinnereth ^(C2)even as far as the sea of the Arabah, ^(C3)the Salt Sea, ^(F3)at the foot of the slopes of Pisgah on the east.

¹⁸ "Then I commanded you at that time, saying, '^(C1)Yahweh your God has given you this land to possess it; ^(C2)all you men of valor shall cross over armed before your brothers, the sons of Israel.¹⁹ '^(C1)But your wives and your little ones and your livestock (I know that you have ^(C2)much livestock) shall remain in your cities which I have given you,^20 (C1)until Yahweh gives rest to your brothers as to you, and they also possess the land which Yahweh your God will give them beyond the Jordan. ^(C2)Then you may return, every man to his possession which I have given you.'²¹ "And I commanded Joshua at that time, saying, 'Your eyes have seen all that Yahweh your God has done to these two kings; so Yahweh shall do to all the kingdoms into which you are about to cross.²² 'Do not fear them, for Yahweh your God ^(C1)is the one fighting for you.'

Moses Pleads to Cross the Jordan

²³ "I also pleaded with Yahweh at that time, saying,²⁴ 'O Lord Yahweh, You have begun to show Your slave ^(C1)Your greatness and Your strong hand; for what ^(C2)god is there in heaven or on earth who can do such works and mighty acts as Yours?²⁵ 'Let me, I pray, cross over and see the ^(C1)good land that is beyond the Jordan, ^(F1)that good hill country and Lebanon.'²⁶ "But ^(C1)Yahweh was angry with me on your account and would not listen to me; and Yahweh said to me, '^(F1)Enough! Speak to Me no more of this matter.²⁷ 'Go up to the top of ^(C1)Pisgah and lift up your eyes to the west and north and south and east, and see it with your eyes, ^(C2)for you shall not cross over this Jordan.²⁸ '^(C1)But command Joshua and strengthen him and encourage him, ^(C2)for he shall go across ^(F1)at the head of this people, and he will cause them to inherit the land which you will see.'²⁹ "So we remained in the valley opposite ^(C1)Beth-peor.