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Josue 13:13-24 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

13. And the children of Israel would not destroy Gessuri and Machati: and they have dwelt in the midst of Israel, until this present day.

14. But to the tribe of Levi he gave no possession: but the sacrifices and victims of the Lord God of Israel, are his inheritance, as he spoke to him.

15. And Moses gave a possession to the children of Ruben according to their kindreds.

16. And their border was from Aroer, which is on the bank of the torrent Arnon, and in the midst of the valley of the same torrent: all the plain, that leadeth to Medaba,

17. And Hesebon, and all their villages, which are in the plains. Dibon also, and Bamothbaal, and the town of Baalmaon,

18. And Jassa, and Cidimoth, and Mephaath,

19. And Cariathaim, and Sabama, and Sarathasar in the mountain of the valley.

20. Bethphogor and Asedoth, Phasga and Bethiesimoth,

21. And all the cities of the plain, and all the kingdoms of Sehon king of the Amorrhites, that reigned in Hesebon, whom Moses slew with the princes of Madian: Hevi, and Recem, and Sur and Hur, and Rebe, dukes of Sehon inhabitants of the land.

22. Balaam also the son of Beer the soothsayer, the children of Israel slew with the sword among the rest that were slain.

23. And the river Jordan was the herder of the children of Ruben. This is the possession of the Rubenites, by their kindreds, of cities and villages.

24. And Moses gave to the tribe of Gad and to his children by their kindreds a possession, of which this is the division.

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