CHAPTER 13

¹And Joshua was old, advanced in years. And the LORD said to him, “You are old, advanced in years, and very much of the land remains to take hold of. ²This is the land remaining: all the provinces of the Philistines and all of the Geshurites, ³from the Shihor, which faces Egypt, to the region of Ekron to the north, it is reckoned Canaanite. The five Philistine overlords, the Gazite, and the Ashdodite, the Ascolonite, the Gittite, and the Ekronite. And the Avvites ⁴on the south, all the Canaanite land from Arah of the Sidonians to Aphek, which is on the Amorite border, ⁵and the land of the Giblite, and all of Lebanon to the east, from Baal-Gad below Mount Hermon to the approach to Hamath. ⁶All the inhabitants of the high country from Lebanon to Misrephoth-Mayim, all the Sidonians, I Myself will dispossess them before the Israelites, only to make it fall in estate to Israel as I have charged you. ⁷And now, divide this land in estate among the nine tribes and the half-tribe of Manasseh, ⁸with whom the Reubenites and the Gadites took their estate that Moses gave them across the Jordan to the east, as Moses servant of the LORD gave them, ⁹from Aroer, which is on the banks of Wadi Arnon, and the town that is in the wadi, and the plain from Medeba to Dibon, ¹⁰and all the towns of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, to the border of the Ammonites, ¹¹and Gilead and the territory of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and all of Mount Hermon and all Bashan to Saleah, ¹²and all the kingdoms of Og in Bashan, who reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei—he remained from the remnant of the Rephaim, and Moses struck them down and dispossessed them. ¹³But the Israelites did not dispossess the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and Geshur and Maacath have dwelled in the midst of Israel to this day. ¹⁴Only to the tribe of Levi he gave no estate. The fire offerings of the LORD God of Israel, they are its estate, as He had spoken to it. ¹⁵And Moses gave to the tribe of the Reubenites according to its clans, ¹⁶and it became their territory from Aroer, which is on the banks of Wadi Arnon, and the town that is in the wadi and the whole plain to Medeba. ¹⁷Heshbon and all its towns that are on the plain, Dibon and Bamoth-Baal and Beth-Baal-Meon, ¹⁸and Jaza and Kedemoth and Mephaath, ¹⁹and Kiriathaim and Sibma and Zereth-Shahar on the Mountain of the Valley, ²⁰and Beth-Peor and the slopes of Pisgah and Beth-Jeshimoth, ²¹and all the towns of the plain and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, whom Moses struck down—and the princes of Midian, Evi and Rekem and Zur and Hur and Reba, princes of Sihon who dwelled in the land. ²²And Balaam son of Beor, the soothsayer, the Israelites killed by the sword with the rest of their slain. ²³And the border of the Reubenites was the Jordan. This was the estate of the Reubenites by their clans, the towns and their hamlets. ²⁴And Moses had given it to the tribe of Gad and to the Gadites by their clans, ²⁵and it became their territory: Jazer and all the towns of Gilead and half of the land of the Ammonites as far as Aroer, which is just before Rabbah, ²⁶and from Heshbon as far as Ramoth-Mizpeh, and Betonim, and from Mahanaim to the border of Lidber, ²⁷and in the Valley, Beth-Haran and Beth-Nimrah and Succoth and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdoms of Sihon king of Heshbon, from the Jordan and its border to the edge of the Sea of Chinnereth across the Jordan to the east. ²⁸This is the estate of the Gadites according to their clans, the towns and their hamlets. ²⁹And Moses gave it to the half-tribe of Manasseh and it went to the half-tribe of the Manassites according to their clans, ³⁰and their territory was from Mahanaim, all of Bashan, all the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and all of Havvoth-Jair, which is in Bashan, sixty towns, ³¹and half of Gilead and Ashtaroth and Edrei, the royal towns of Og in Bashan, to the sons of Machir son of Manasseh, to half of the sons of Machir according to their clans. ³²These were what Moses apportioned in estate in the plains of Moab across the Jordan to the east of Jericho. ³³But to the tribe of Levi Moses gave no estate—the LORD God of Israel, He is their estate, as He had spoken to them.”