Now Joshua 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 to possess. This is the land that yet remains: all the
regions of the Philistines, and all those of the Geshurites (from
the Shihor, which is east of Egypt, northward to the boundary of
Ekron, it is counted as Canaanite; there are five rulers of the
Philistines, those of Gaza, Ashdod, Ashkelon, Gath, and Ekron), and
those of the Avvim, in the south, all the land of the Canaanites,
and Mearah that belongs to the Sidonians, to Aphek, to the boundary
of the Amorites, and the land of the Gebalites, and all Lebanon,
toward the sunrise, from Baal-gad below Mount Hermon to Lebo-
hamath, all the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon to
Misrephoth-maim, even all the Sidonians. I myself will drive them
out from before the people of Israel. Only allot the land to Israel
for an inheritance, as I have commanded you. Now therefore divide
this land for an inheritance to the nine tribes and half the tribe
of Manasseh.”

  With the other half of the tribe of Manasseh the Reubenites and
the Gadites received their inheritance, which Moses gave them,
beyond the Jordan eastward, as Moses the servant of the LORD gave
them: 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 all the
tableland of Medeba as far as Dibon; and all the cities of Sihon
king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, as far as the
boundary of the Ammonites; and Gilead, and the region of the
Geshurites and Maacathites, and all Mount Hermon, and all Bashan to
Salecah; all the kingdom of Og in Bashan, who reigned in Ashtaroth
and in Edrei (he alone was left of the remnant of the Rephaim);
these Moses had struck and driven out. 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.

  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.

  And Moses gave an inheritance to the tribe of the people of
Reuben according to their clans. So their territory was 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 all the tableland by Medeba;
with Heshbon, and all its cities that are in the tableland; Dibon,
and Bamoth-baal, and Beth-baal-meon, and Jahaz, and Kedemoth, and
Mephaath, and Kiriathaim, and Sibmah, and Zereth-shahar on the hill
of the valley, and Beth-peor, and the slopes of Pisgah, and Beth-
jeshimoth, that is, all the cities of the tableland, and all the
kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, whom
Moses defeated with the leaders of Midian, Evi and Rekem and Zur
and Hur and Reba, the princes of Sihon, who lived in the land.
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. 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.

  Moses gave an inheritance also to the tribe of Gad, to the people
of Gad, according to their clans. Their territory was Jazer, and
all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the Ammonites, to
Aroer, which is east of Rabbah, and from Heshbon to Ramath-mizpeh
and Betonim, and from Mahanaim to the territory of Debir, and in
the valley Beth-haram, Beth-nimrah, 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 Chinnereth, eastward
beyond the Jordan. This is the inheritance of the people of Gad
according to their clans, with their cities and villages.

  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. Their region extended from Mahanaim, through all
Bashan, the whole kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and all the towns
of Jair, which are in Bashan, sixty cities, and half Gilead, and
Ashtaroth, and Edrei, the cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
These were allotted to the people of Machir the son of Manasseh for
the half of the people of Machir according to their clans.

  These are the inheritances that Moses distributed in the plains
of Moab, beyond the Jordan east of Jericho. But to the tribe of
Levi Moses gave no inheritance; the LORD God of Israel is their
inheritance, just as he said to them.

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