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JOSHUA chapter 
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1 Now Joshua was old and well advanced in years. Jehovah
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 Jehovah 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 (the same 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 Jehovah, 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 towns 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. Jehovah, the God of Israel, is
their inheritance, as he spoke to them.  
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