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Joshua 13:12-29 Lexham English Bible (LEB)

12. all the kingdom of Og in Bashan, who reigned in Ashtaroth and Edrei—he was left over from the survivors of the Rephaim; these Moses had defeated and driven out.

13. But the Israelites did not drive out the Geshurites or the Maacathites; Geshur and Maacah live among Israel to this day.

14. Only the tribe of Levites Moses did not give an inheritance; the offerings made by fire to Yahweh the God of Israel are their inheritance, just as he promised to them.

15. Moses gave an inheritance to the tribe of the descendants of Reuben according to their families.

16. Their territory was from Aroer, which was on the edge of the wadi of Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the valley, and all the plateau by Medeba;

17. Heshbon and its cities that are on the plateau; Dibon, Bamoth Baal, Beth Baal Meon,

18. Jahaz, Kedemoth, Mephaath,

19. Kiriathaim, Sibmah, and Zereth Shahar on the hill of the valley;

20. Beth Peor, the slopes of Pisgah, and Beth Jeshimoth;

21. all of the cities of the plateau, and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon and whom Moses defeated with the leaders of Midian, Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, the princes of Sihon who dwelled in the land.

22. In addition to their slain, the Israelites killed with the sword Balaam son of Beor, who practiced divination.

23. And the border of the descendants of Reuben was the Jordan and its banks. This was the inheritance of the descendants of Reuben according to their families, the cities, and their villages.

24. Moses gave an inheritance to the tribe of Gad, to the descendants of Gad, according to their families.

25. Their territory was Jazer and all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the Ammonites up to Aroer, which is east of Rabbah;

26. and from Heshbon up to Ramah-Mizpeh and Betonim, and from Mahanaim up to the territory to Debir;

27. in the valley of Beth Haram, Beth Nimrah, Succoth, Zaphon, and the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, the Jordan and its banks, up to the lower end of the Kinnereth Sea beyond the Jordan to the east.

28. This is the inheritance of the Gadites according to their families, the cities, and their 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.

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