Chapter 13
1 Now Joshua was old and well advanced in years . Yahweh said to him , " You are old and advanced in years , and there remains yet very much land to be possessed .
2 " This is the land that still remains : all the regions of the Philistines , and all the Geshurites ;
3 from the Shihor , which is before Egypt , even to the border of Ekron northward , which is counted as Canaanite ; the five lords of the Philistines ; the Gazites , and the Ashdodites, the Ashkelonites, the Gittites , and the Ekronites ; also the Avvim,
4 on the south ; all the land of the Canaanites , and Mearah that belongs to the Sidonians , to Aphek, to the border of the Amorites;
5 and the land of the Gebalites , and all Lebanon , toward the sunrise , from Baal Gad under Mount Hermon to the entrance of Hamath ;
6 all the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon to Misrephoth Maim, even all the Sidonians . I will drive them out from before the children of Israel . Just allocate it to Israel for an inheritance , as I have commanded you .
7 Now therefore divide this land for an inheritance to the nine tribes and the half-tribe of Manasseh ."
8 With him the Reubenites and the Gadites received their inheritance , which Moses gave them , beyond the Jordan eastward , even as Moses the servant of Yahweh gave them :
9 from Aroer , that is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the valley , and all the plain of Medeba to Dibon ;
10 and all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon , to the border of the children of Ammon ;
11 and Gilead , and the border of the Geshurites and Maacathites , and all Mount Hermon , and all Bashan to Salecah ;
12 all the kingdom of Og in Bashan , who reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei ( who was left of the remnant of the Rephaim ); for Moses attacked these , and drove them out .
13 Nevertheless the children of Israel didn’t drive out the Geshurites , nor the Maacathites : but Geshur and Maacath live within Israel to this day .
14 Only he gave no inheritance to the tribe of Levi . The offerings of Yahweh , the God of Israel , made by fire are his inheritance , as he spoke to him .
15 Moses gave to the tribe of the children of Reuben according to their families .
16 Their border was from Aroer , that is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the valley , and all the plain by Medeba ;
17 Heshbon , and all its cities that are in the plain ; Dibon , Bamoth Baal , Beth Baal Meon,
18 Jahaz , Kedemoth , Mephaath ,
19 Kiriathaim , Sibmah , Zereth Shahar in the mount of the valley ,
20 Beth Peor, the slopes of Pisgah , Beth Jeshimoth,
21 all the cities of the plain , and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon , whom Moses struck with the chiefs of Midian , Evi, Rekem , Zur , Hur , and Reba , the princes of Sihon , who lived in the land.
22 The children of Israel also killed Balaam the son of Beor , the soothsayer , with the sword , among the rest of their slain .
23 The border of the children of Reuben was the bank of the Jordan . This was the inheritance of the children of Reuben according to their families , the cities and its villages .
24 Moses gave to the tribe of Gad , to the children of Gad , according to their families .
25 Their border was Jazer , and all the cities of Gilead , and half the land of the children of Ammon , to Aroer that is near Rabbah ;
26 and from Heshbon to Ramath Mizpeh, and Betonim; and from Mahanaim to the border of Debir ;
27 and in the valley , Beth Haram, Beth Nimrah, Succoth , and Zaphon , the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon , the Jordan ’s bank, to the uttermost part of the sea of Chinnereth beyond the Jordan eastward .
28 This is the inheritance of the children of Gad according to their families , the cities and its villages .
29 Moses gave an inheritance to the half-tribe of Manasseh . It was for the half-tribe of the children of Manasseh according to their families .
30 Their border was from Mahanaim , all Bashan , all the kingdom of Og king of Bashan , and all the villages of Jair , which are in Bashan , sixty cities .
31 Half Gilead , Ashtaroth , and Edrei, the cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan , were for the children of Machir the son of Manasseh , even for the half of the children of Machir according to their families .
32 These are the inheritances which Moses distributed in the plains of Moab , beyond the Jordan at Jericho , eastward .
33 But Moses gave no inheritance to the tribe of Levi . Yahweh , the God of Israel , is their inheritance , as he spoke to them .