Joshua 13

1Joshua was old, advanced in years, and Yahweh said to him, “You are old, advanced in years, and very much of the land remains to be possessed.”

2This is the land that remains: all the districts of the Philistines, and all the Geshurites—

3from the Shihor, which is east of Egypt, as far as the border of Ekron to the north—it is counted as Canaanite territory—the five rulers of the Philistines: the Gazite, the Ashdodite, the Ashkelonite, the Gittite, and the Ekronite, and the Avvim.

4from the south, all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah that belongs to the Sidonians, as far as Aphek, to the border of the Amorites.

5and the land of the Gebalites, and all Lebanon toward the sunrise, from Baal-gad below Mount Hermon to Lebo-hamath,

6All the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon to Misrephoth-maim, all the Sidonians—I myself will drive them out before the sons of Israel. Only allot it to Israel as an inheritance, as I have commanded you.

7Now divide this land as an inheritance to the nine tribes and the half-tribe of Manasseh.

8With him, the Reubenites and the Gadites received their inheritance, which Moses gave them beyond the Jordan eastward, just as Moses the servant of Yahweh gave them.

9from Aroer, which is on the edge of the Arnon Valley, and the city that is in the middle of the valley, and all the tableland from Medeba to Dibon,

10and all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, as far as the border of the sons of Ammon.

11and Gilead, and the territory 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 of the remnant of the Rephaim. Moses struck them down and dispossessed them.

13But the sons of Israel did not drive out the Geshurites or the Maacathites, and Geshur and Maacath lived among Israel to this day.

14Only to the tribe of Levi he gave no inheritance; the offerings by fire to Yahweh, the God of Israel, are his inheritance, as he spoke to him.

15And Moses gave to the tribe of the sons of Reuben according to their clans:

16Their border 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 as far as Medeba.

17Heshbon and all its cities that are on the plateau: Dibon, Bamoth-baal, and Beth-baal-meon.

18and Jahaz, and Kedemoth, and Mephaath;

19and Kiriathaim, and Sibmah, and Zereth-shahar on the hill of the valley,

20and Beth-peor, and the slopes of Pisgah, and Beth-jeshimoth.

21and all the cities of the plateau, and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, whom Moses struck down—him and the chiefs of Midian: Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, the princes of Sihon, who lived in the land.

22And Balaam son of Beor, the diviner, the sons of Israel killed with the sword among their slain.

23And the border of the sons of Reuben was the Jordan and its border. This was the inheritance of the sons of Reuben according to their clans, the cities and their villages.

24And Moses gave to the tribe of Gad, to the sons of Gad, according to their clans.

25And their territory was Jazer, and all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the Ammonites, as far as Aroer, which is opposite Rabbah.

26and from Heshbon to Ramath-mizpeh and Betonim, and from Mahanaim to the border of Debir.

27and in the valley, Beth-haram, Beth-nimrah, Succoth, and Zaphon—the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon—with the Jordan as its border, as far as the lower end of the Sea of Kinnereth, beyond the Jordan eastward.

28This was the inheritance of the sons of Gad according to their clans—the cities and their villages.

29And Moses gave to the half-tribe of Manasseh, and it was for the half-tribe of the sons of Manasseh according to their clans:

30Their territory was from Mahanaim: all Bashan, all the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and all the villages of Jair that are in Bashan—sixty cities.

31and half of Gilead, and Ashtaroth and Edrei, the cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan, belonged to the sons of Machir son of Manasseh—to half of the sons of Machir, according to their clans.

32These are what Moses apportioned as an inheritance in the plains of Moab, beyond the Jordan east of Jericho.

33But to the tribe of Levi Moses gave no inheritance; Yahweh, the God of Israel, is their inheritance, just as he spoke to them.