Joshua
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1Joshua was old, advanced in days, and God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. said to him, You yourself have grown old. You have come into days, and very much of the land remains to be taken.
2This is the land that remains: all the districts of the Philistines, and all the Geshurite,
3from the Shihor, which is east of Egypt, as far as the border of Ekron northward, which is counted to the Canaanite: the five lords of the Philistines, the Gazite, the Ashdodite, the Ashkelonite, the Gittite, and the Ekronite, and the Avvim.
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Sarnim are the lords of the Philistine cities. The Shihor is the water named on the side of Egypt.
4On the south, all the land of the Canaanite, and Mearah, which belongs to the Sidonians, as far as Aphek, to the border of the Amorite,
5and the land of the Gebalite, and all Lebanon toward the sunrise, from Baal-gad under Mount Hermon as far as Lebo-hamath,
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Lebo-hamath is the entrance of Hamath, the northern point named in the line.
6all who live in the hill country from Lebanon as far as Misrephoth-maim, all the Sidonians. I myself will drive them out from before the sons of Israel. Only assign it to Israel as an inheritance, as I commanded you.
7Now divide this land as an inheritance to the nine tribes and the half-tribe of Manasseh.
8With him the Reubenite and the Gadite took their inheritance, which Moses gave them beyond the Jordan eastward, as Moses, the servant of God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary., gave them:
9from Aroer, which is on the edge of the A stream bed that keeps water, or runs when the rain comes. Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the A stream bed that keeps water, or runs when the rain comes., and all the plateau of Medeba as far as Dibon,
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The mishor is the level plateau east of the Jordan, not the hill country.
10and all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorite, who reigned in Heshbon, as far as the border of the sons of Ammon,
11and Gilead, and the border of the Geshurite and the Maacathite, and all Mount Hermon, and all Bashan as far as Salecah,
12all the kingdom of Og in Bashan, who reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei. He was left from the rest of the Rephaim. Moses struck them and dispossessed them.
13The sons of Israel did not dispossess the Geshurite or the Maacathite. Geshur and Maacath have lived in the midst of Israel to this day.
14Only to the tribe of Levi he gave no inheritance. The food gifts of God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary., the God of Israel, are his inheritance, as he spoke to him.
15Moses gave to the tribe of the sons of Reuben, by their clans.
16Their border was from Aroer, which is on the edge of the A stream bed that keeps water, or runs when the rain comes. Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the A stream bed that keeps water, or runs when the rain comes., and all the plateau by Medeba,
17Heshbon and all its cities that are on the plateau, Dibon, Bamoth-baal, and Beth-baal-meon,
18Jahaz, Kedemoth, and Mephaath,
19Kiriathaim, Sibmah, and Zereth-hashahar on the hill of the valley,
20Beth-peor, the slopes of Pisgah, and Beth-jeshimoth,
21all the cities of the plateau, and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorite, who reigned in Heshbon, whom Moses struck, him and the chiefs of Midian, Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, princes of Sihon, inhabitants of the land.
22Balaam son of Beor, the A person who tries to learn hidden things by signs., the sons of Israel killed with the sword among their slain.
23The border of the sons of Reuben was the Jordan and the bank. This is the inheritance of the sons of Reuben by their clans, the cities and their villages.
24Moses gave to the tribe of Gad, to the sons of Gad, by their clans.
25Their border was Jazer, all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the sons of Ammon, as far as Aroer, which is east of Rabbah,
26and from Heshbon as far as Ramath-mizpeh and Betonim, and from Mahanaim as far as the border of Lidbir,
27and in the valley, Beth-haram, Beth-nimrah, Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, the Jordan and the bank, as far as the end of the Sea of Kinneret, beyond the Jordan eastward.
28This is the inheritance of the sons of Gad by their clans, the cities and their villages.
29Moses gave to the half-tribe of Manasseh, and it was for the half-tribe of the sons of Manasseh, by their clans.
30Their border was from Mahanaim, all Bashan, all the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and all the tent-villages of Jair, which are in Bashan, sixty cities.
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Havvoth-jair are the tent-villages of Jair.
31Half of Gilead, and Ashtaroth and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan, were for the sons of Machir son of Manasseh, for half of the sons of Machir, by their clans.
32These are what Moses gave as an inheritance in the plains of Moab, beyond the Jordan of Jericho, eastward.
33To the tribe of Levi Moses gave no inheritance. God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary., the God of Israel, is their inheritance, as he spoke to them.