¹Now Joshua was old and well advanced in years . The LORD 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 ;

³from 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,

⁴on the south ; all the land of the Canaanites , and Mearah that belongs to the Sidonians , to Aphek, to the border of the Amorites;

⁵and the land of the Gebalites , and all Lebanon , towards the sunrise , from Baal Gad under Mount Hermon to the entrance of Hamath ;

⁶all 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 .

⁷Now therefore divide this land for an inheritance to the nine tribes and the half-tribe of Manasseh .”

⁸With him the Reubenites and the Gadites received their inheritance , which Moses gave them , beyond the Jordan eastward , even as Moses the servant of the LORD gave them :

⁹from 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 ;

¹⁰and all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon , to the border of the children of Ammon ;

¹¹and Gilead , and the border of the Geshurites and Maacathites , and all Mount Hermon , and all Bashan to Salecah ;

¹²all 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 .

¹³Nevertheless the children of Israel didn’t drive out the Geshurites , nor the Maacathites : but Geshur and Maacath live within Israel to this day .

¹⁴Only he gave no inheritance to the tribe of Levi . The offerings of the LORD , the God of Israel , made by fire are his inheritance , as he spoke to him .

¹⁵Moses gave to the tribe of the children of Reuben according to their families .

¹⁶Their 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 ;

¹⁷Heshbon , and all its cities that are in the plain ; Dibon , Bamoth Baal , Beth Baal Meon,

¹⁸Jahaz , Kedemoth , Mephaath ,

¹⁹Kiriathaim , Sibmah , Zereth Shahar in the mount of the valley ,

²⁰Beth Peor, the slopes of Pisgah , Beth Jeshimoth,

²¹all 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.

²²The children of Israel also killed Balaam the son of Beor , the soothsayer , with the sword , amongst the rest of their slain .

²³The 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 .

²⁴Moses gave to the tribe of Gad , to the children of Gad , according to their families .

²⁵Their border was Jazer , and all the cities of Gilead , and half the land of the children of Ammon , to Aroer that is near Rabbah ;

²⁶and from Heshbon to Ramath Mizpeh, and Betonim; and from Mahanaim to the border of Debir ;

²⁷and 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 .

²⁸This is the inheritance of the children of Gad according to their families , the cities and its villages .

²⁹Moses gave an inheritance to the half-tribe of Manasseh . It was for the half-tribe of the children of Manasseh according to their families .

³⁰Their 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 .

³¹Half 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 .

³²These are the inheritances which Moses distributed in the plains of Moab , beyond the Jordan at Jericho , eastward .

³³But Moses gave no inheritance to the tribe of Levi . The LORD , the God of Israel , is their inheritance , as he spoke to them .