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Chapter 13 |
| 1 | Now Joshua was
old and stricken in years; and the LORD said unto him, Thou art old and
stricken in years, and there remaineth yet very much land to be
possessed. |
| 2
| This is the land that yet remaineth: all the borders of
the Philistines, and all Geshuri, |
| 3 | From Sihor, which is before
Egypt, even unto the borders of Ekron northward, which is counted to the
Canaanite: five lords of the Philistines; the Gazathites, and the Ashdothites,
the Eshkalonites, the Gittites, and the Ekronites; also the Avites: |
| 4 |
From the south, all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah that is beside the
Sidonians unto Aphek, to the borders of the Amorites: |
| 5 | And the land
of the Giblites, and all Lebanon, toward the sunrising, from Baalgad under
mount Hermon unto the entering into Hamath. |
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6 | All the inhabitants of
the hill country from Lebanon unto Misrephothmaim, and all the Sidonians, them
will I drive out from before the children of Israel: only divide thou it by lot
unto the Israelites for an inheritance, as I have commanded thee. |
| 7 |
Now therefore divide this land for an inheritance unto the nine tribes, and the
half tribe of Manasseh, |
| 8 | With whom the Reubenites and the Gadites have
received their inheritance, which Moses gave them, beyond Jordan eastward, even
as Moses the servant of the LORD gave them; |
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9 | From Aroer, that is upon
the bank of the river Arnon, and the city that is in the midst of the river,
and all the plain of Medeba unto Dibon; |
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10 | And all the cities of
Sihon king of the Amorites, which reigned in Heshbon, unto the border of the
children of Ammon; |
| 11 | And Gilead, and the border of the Geshurites
and Maachathites, and all mount Hermon, and all Bashan unto Salcah; |
| 12 |
All the kingdom of Og in Bashan, which reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei, who
remained of the remnant of the giants: for these did Moses smite, and cast them
out. |
| 13 |
Nevertheless the children of Israel expelled not the
Geshurites, nor the Maachathites: but the Geshurites and the Maachathites dwell
among the Israelites until this day. |
| 14 | Only unto the tribes of Levi
he gave none inheritance; the sacrifices of the LORD God of Israel made by fire
are their inheritance, as he said unto them. |
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15 | And Moses gave unto the
tribe of the children of Reuben inheritance according to their families.
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| 16 | And their coast was from Aroer, that is on the bank of the river Arnon,
and the city that is in the midst of the river, and all the plain by
Medeba; |
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| Heshbon, and all her cities that are in the plain; Dibon,
and Bamothbaal, and Bethbaalmeon, |
| 18 | And Jahaza, and Kedemoth, and
Mephaath, |
| 19
| And Kirjathaim, and Sibmah, and Zarethshahar in the mount
of the valley, |
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20 | And Bethpeor, and Ashdothpisgah, and
Bethjeshimoth, |
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21 | And all the cities of the plain, and all the
kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, which reigned in Heshbon, whom Moses
smote with the princes of Midian, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba,
which were dukes of Sihon, dwelling in the country. |
| 22 | Balaam also
the son of Beor, the soothsayer, did the children of Israel slay with the sword
among them that were slain by them. |
| 23 | And the border of the
children of Reuben was Jordan, and the border thereof. This was the inheritance
of the children of Reuben after their families, the cities and the villages
thereof. |
| 24
| And Moses gave inheritance unto the tribe of Gad, even
unto the children of Gad according to their families. |
| 25 | And their
coast was Jazer, and all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the
children of Ammon, unto Aroer that is before Rabbah; |
| 26 | And from
Heshbon unto Ramathmizpeh, and Betonim; and from Mahanaim unto the border of
Debir; |
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| And in the valley, Betharam, and Bethnimrah, and Succoth,
and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, Jordan and his
border, even unto the edge of the sea of Chinnereth on the other side Jordan
eastward. |
| 28
| This is the inheritance of the children of Gad after
their families, the cities, and their villages. |
| 29 | And Moses
gave inheritance unto the half tribe of Manasseh: and this was the possession
of the half tribe of the children of Manasseh by their families. |
| 30 |
And their coast was from Mahanaim, all Bashan, all the kingdom of Og king of
Bashan, and all the towns of Jair, which are in Bashan, threescore
cities: |
| 31
| And half Gilead, and Ashtaroth, and Edrei, cities of the
kingdom of Og in Bashan, were pertaining unto the children of Machir the son of
Manasseh, even to the one half of the children of Machir by their
families. |
| 32
| These are the countries which Moses did distribute for
inheritance in the plains of Moab, on the other side Jordan, by Jericho,
eastward. |
| 33
| But unto the tribe of Levi Moses gave not any
inheritance: the LORD God of Israel was their inheritance, as he said unto
them. |
