Open English Translation JOS Chapter 13

13 Now the years had passed and Yehoshua had grown old, and Yahweh said to him, “You’re old now and there’s still a lot of land that needs to be captured. 2 This is the remaining land: all the territories of the Philistines, and all of the Geshurites, 3 from Shihor (east of Egypt) and as far as the border of Ekron to the north (it’s considered to be Canaanite), the five rulers of the Philistines (in Gaza, Ashdod, Ashkelon, Gat, and Ekron), and the Avvites. 4 In the south: all the land of the Canaanites, and a Mearah that belongs to the Sidonians, as far as Afek, as far as the border of the Amorites, 5 plus the land of the Gebalites, all Lebanon towards the east, from Baal-Gad below Mt. Hermon as far as Lebo-Hamath. 6 I myself will drive out all those who live in the hill country from Lebanon as far as Misrefot-Maim, and all the Sidonians. Make sure that it’s given to the Israelis as an inheritance, just as I instructed you.[ref] 7 All that land should be divided up as an inheritance for the nine tribes plus half of the half-tribe of Menashsheh.

8 Along with the other half of the half-tribe of Menashsheh, the tribes of Reuben and Gad had taken their inheritance on the other (eastern) side of the Yordan as approved by Yahweh’s servant Mosheh,[ref] 9 from Aroer, which is on the edge of the Arnon riverbed, and the city that’s in the middle of the valley, and all the plateau near Medeba, to Dibon. 10 Also, all the cities of King Sihon of the Amorites who ruled in Heshbon, as far as the border with the Ammonites, 11 and Gilead, and the territory of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and all Mt. Hermon, and all the Bashan as far as Salekah, 12 all the kingdom of Og in the Bashan, who reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei (what remained from the remnant of the Refa’ites). Mosheh had attacked them and captured their lands. 13 But the Israelis didn’t capture the land of the Geshurites or the Maacathites and so those peoples live among the Israelis to this day.

14 The only tribe that didn’t receive an inheritance was the tribe of Levi because the offerings given to Yisrael’s god Yahweh are their inheritance, just like he’d told them.[ref]

15 This was the land that Mosheh gave to the tribe of Reuben, according to their clans: 16 The area from Aroer (on the edge of the Arnon riverbed) along to the town in the middle of the valley, to the plateau near Medeba, 17 Heshbon and all it’s cities on the plateau, including Dibon, Bamot-Baal, Beyt-Baal-Meon, 18 Yahaz, Kedemot, Mefaat, 19 Kiriathaim, Sibmah, and Zeret-Shahar on the hill within the valley. 20 It also includes Beyt-Peor, the slopes of the Pisgah, Beyt-Yeshimot, 21 and all the cities on the plateau, and all the kingdom of Sihon (the king of the Amorites who had reigned in Heshbon) who Mosheh had defeated, he and the leaders of Midian: Evi and Rekem and Zur and Hur and Reba (the princes of Sihon who had lived in the land). 22 The Israelis also killed Balaam (Beor’s son who practiced divination) along with others. 23 The border for Reuven’s descendants was the Yordan River. So that was the inheritance of Reuven’s descendants—all the cities and their villages allocated to their clans.

24 This was the land that Mosheh gave to the tribe of Gad, according to their clans: 25 It included Yazer and all the cities of Gilead and half of the land where the Ammonites had lived as far as Aroer opposite Rabbah, 26 then from Heshbon to Ramat-Mizpah and Betonim, and from Mahanaim to the Debir border. 27 Also in the valley, Beyt-Haram, Beyt-Nimrah, Succot, Zafon, and the rest of the kingdom of Sihon (the king of Heshbon), with the Yordan and the border, as far as the end of Lake Galilee, eastward beyond the Yordan River. 28 So that was the inheritance of Gad’s descendants—all the cities and their villages allocated to their clans.

29 This was the land that Mosheh gave to half of the half-tribe of Menashsheh, according to their clans: 30 It went from Mahanaim, all the Bashan, all the kingdom of Og (the king of the Bashan), and all the towns of Yair, which are in the Bashan—sixty cities. 31 Also half of the Gilead, plus Ashtaroth and Edrei (cities of the kingdom of Og in the Bashan). So that was for half of Machir’s sons (he was one of Menashsheh’s sons) allocated to their clans.

32 This was the land that Mosheh gave as an inheritance in the plains of Moab on the eastern side of the Yordan River opposite Yericho. 33 However, Mosheh didn’t give any inheritance of land to Levi’s descendants because Yisrael’s god Yahweh is their inheritance just as he told them.[ref]