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Joshua 13:20-29 New Century Version (NCV)

20. Beth Peor, the hills of Pisgah, and Beth Jeshimoth.

21. So that land included all the towns on the plain and all the area that Sihon king of the Amorites had ruled from the town of Heshbon. Moses had defeated him along with the leaders of the Midianites, including Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba. All these leaders fought together with Sihon and lived in that country.

22. The Israelites killed many people during the fighting, including Balaam of Beor, who tried to use magic to tell the future.

23. The land given to Reuben stopped at the shore of the Jordan River. So the land given to the family groups of Reuben included all these towns and their villages that were listed.

24. This is the land Moses gave to the tribe of Gad, to all its family groups:

25. the land of Jazer and all the towns of Gilead; half the land of the Ammonites that went as far as Aroer near Rabbah;

26. the area from Heshbon to Ramath Mizpah and Betonim; the area from Mahanaim to the land of Debir;

27. in the valley, Beth Haram, Beth Nimrah, Succoth, and Zaphon, the other land Sihon king of Heshbon had ruled east of the Jordan River and continuing to the end of Lake Galilee.

28. All this land went to the family groups of Gad, including all these towns and their villages.

29. This is the land Moses had given to East Manasseh. Half of all the family groups in the tribe of Manasseh were given this land:

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