Lands Yet Unconquered

1 Now Joshua was old and well advanced in years. The Lord said to him, “You are old and advanced in years, and there still remains a great deal of land to be possessed. 2 “This is the land that still remains: all the regions of the Philistines, and all the Geshurites; 3 from the Shihor, which is before Egypt, to the border of Ekron northward, which is counted as Canaanite; the five Philistine rulers; the Gazites, and the Ashdodites, the Ashkelonites, the Gittites, and the Ekronites; also the Avvim, 4 on the south; all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah that belongs to the Sidonians, to Aphek, to the border of the Amorites; 5 and the land of the Gebalites, and all Lebanon, toward the sunrise, from Baal Gad under Mount Hermon to the entrance of Hamath; 6 all the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon to Misrephoth Maim, all the Sidonians. I will drive them out from before the Israelites. Just allocate it to Israel as an inheritance, as I have commanded you. 7 Now therefore divide this land as an inheritance to the nine tribes and the half-tribe of Manasseh.”

Inheritance of Jordan

8 With him the Reubenites and the Gadites received their inheritance, which Moses gave them, beyond the Jordan eastward, just as Moses the servant of the Lord gave them: 9 from Aroer, that is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the valley, and the entire plain of Medeba to Dibon; 10 and all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, to the border of the Ammonites; 11 and Gilead, and the border of the Geshurites and Maacathites, and all of Mount Hermon, and all of Bashan to Salecah; 12 all of the kingdom of Og in Bashan, who reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei (who was left of the remnant of the Rephaim); for Moses attacked these, and drove them out. 13 Nevertheless the Israelites did not drive out the Geshurites, nor the Maacathites, but Geshur and Maacath live within Israel to this day. 14 Only he gave no inheritance to the tribe of Levi. The offerings of the Lord, the God of Israel, made by fire are his inheritance, as he spoke to him.

15 Moses gave to the Reubenite tribe according to their families. 16 Their border was from Aroer, that is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the valley, and the entire plain by Medeba; 17 Heshbon, and all its cities that are in the plain; Dibon, Bamoth Baal, Beth Baal Meon, 18 Jahaz, Kedemoth, Mephaath, 19 Kiriathaim, Sibmah, Zereth Shahar in the mount of the valley, 20 Beth Peor, the slopes of Pisgah, Beth Jeshimoth, 21 all of the cities of the plain, and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, whom Moses struck with the Midianite leaders, Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, the princes of Sihon, who lived in the land.

Balaam Slain

22 The Israelites also killed Balaam the son of Beor, the soothsayer, with the sword, among the rest of their slain.

23 The border of the Reubenites was the bank of the Jordan. This was the inheritance of the Reubenites according to their families, the cities and its villages.

24 Moses gave to the tribe of Gad, to the Gadites, according to their families. 25 Their border was Jazer, and all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the Ammonites, to Aroer that is near Rabbah; 26 and from Heshbon to Ramath Mizpeh, and Betonim; and from Mahanaim to the border of Debir; 27 and in the valley, Beth Haram, Beth Nimrah, Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, the Jordan’s bank, to the uttermost part of the sea of Chinnereth beyond the Jordan eastward. 28 This is the inheritance of the Gadites according to their families, the cities and its villages.

29 Moses gave an inheritance to the half-tribe of Manasseh. It was for the half-tribe of the descendants of Manasseh, according to their families. 30 Their border was from Mahanaim, all Bashan, all the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and all the villages of Jair, which are in Bashan, 60 cities. 31 Half Gilead, Ashtaroth, and Edrei, the cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan, were for the descendants of Machir the son of Manasseh, for half of the descendants of Machir according to their families.

32 These are the inheritances which Moses distributed in the plains of Moab, beyond the Jordan at Jericho, eastward. 33 But Moses gave no inheritance to the tribe of Levi. The Lord, the God of Israel, is their inheritance, as he spoke to them.

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