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The Inheritance East of the Jordan

⁸ With the other half of the tribe of Manasseh^[a] the Reubenites and the Gadites received their inheritance, ^(A)which Moses gave them, beyond the Jordan eastward, as Moses the servant of the Lord gave them: ^9 (B)from Aroer, which is on the edge of the Valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the valley, and ^(C)all the tableland of Medeba as far as Dibon; ^10 (D)and all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, as far as the boundary of the Ammonites; ¹¹ and Gilead, and the ^(E)region of the Geshurites and Maacathites, and all Mount Hermon, and ^(F)all Bashan to Salecah; ^12 (G)all the kingdom of Og in Bashan, who reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei (he alone was left of ^(H)the remnant of the Rephaim); ^(I)these Moses had struck and driven out. ^13 (J)Yet the people of Israel did not drive out the Geshurites or the Maacathites, but Geshur and Maacath dwell in the midst of Israel to this day.

^14 (K)To the tribe of Levi alone Moses gave no inheritance. The offerings by fire to the Lord God of Israel are their inheritance, as he said to him.

¹⁵ And Moses gave an inheritance to the tribe of the people of Reuben according to their clans. ¹⁶ So their territory was from Aroer, ^(L)which is on the edge of the Valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the valley, and all the tableland by ^(M)Medeba; ¹⁷ with Heshbon, and all its cities that are in the tableland; ^(N)Dibon, and Bamoth-baal, and Beth-baal-meon, ^18 (O)and Jahaz, and Kedemoth, and Mephaath, ¹⁹ and ^(P)Kiriathaim, and ^(Q)Sibmah, and Zereth-shahar on the hill of the valley, ²⁰ and ^(R)Beth-peor, and ^(S)the slopes of Pisgah, and ^(T)Beth-jeshimoth, ²¹ that is, ^(U)all the cities of the tableland, and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, ^(V)whom Moses defeated with ^(W)the leaders of Midian, Evi and Rekem and Zur and Hur and Reba, the princes of Sihon, who lived in the land. ^22 (X)Balaam also, the son of Beor, the one who practiced divination, was killed with the sword by the people of Israel among the rest of their slain. ²³ And the border of the people of Reuben was the Jordan as a boundary. This was the inheritance of the people of Reuben, according to their clans with their cities and villages.

²⁴ Moses gave an inheritance also to the tribe of Gad, to the people of Gad, according to their clans. ^25 (Y)Their territory was Jazer, and all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the Ammonites, to Aroer, which is east of ^(Z)Rabbah, ²⁶ and from Heshbon to Ramath-mizpeh and Betonim, and from ^(AA)Mahanaim to the territory of Debir,^{[b] 27} and in the valley Beth-haram, Beth-nimrah, ^(AB)Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, having the Jordan as a boundary, to the lower end of the Sea of ^(AC)Chinnereth, eastward beyond the Jordan. ²⁸ This is the inheritance of the people of Gad according to their clans, with their cities and villages.

²⁹ And Moses gave an inheritance to the half-tribe of Manasseh. It was allotted to the half-tribe of the people of Manasseh according to their clans. ³⁰ Their region extended from ^(AD)Mahanaim, through all Bashan, the whole kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and all ^(AE)the towns of Jair, which are in Bashan, sixty cities, ³¹ and half Gilead, and ^(AF)Ashtaroth, and Edrei, the cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan. These were allotted to the people of ^(AG)Machir the son of Manasseh for the half of the people of Machir according to their clans.

³² These are the inheritances that Moses distributed ^(AH)in the plains of Moab, beyond the Jordan east of Jericho. ^33 (AI)But to the tribe of Levi Moses gave no inheritance; the Lord God of Israel is their inheritance, ^(AJ)just as he said to them.

The Inheritance West of the Jordan

14 These are the inheritances that the people of Israel received in the land of Canaan, which ^(A)Eleazar the priest and Joshua the son of Nun and the heads of the fathers' houses of the tribes of the people of Israel gave them to inherit. ² Their inheritance was ^(B)by lot, just as the Lord had commanded by the hand of Moses for the nine and one-half tribes. ^3 (C)For Moses had given an inheritance to the two and one-half tribes beyond the Jordan, ^(D)but to the Levites he gave no inheritance among them. ⁴ For ^(E)the people of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim. And no portion was given to the Levites in the land, but only cities to dwell in, with their pasturelands for their livestock and their substance. ⁵ The people of Israel did ^(F)as the Lord commanded Moses; they allotted the land.

Caleb's Request and Inheritance

⁶ Then the people of Judah came to Joshua at Gilgal. And Caleb the son of Jephunneh the ^(G)Kenizzite said to him, “You know ^(H)what the Lord said to Moses the man of God in Kadesh-barnea concerning you and me. ⁷ I was forty years old when Moses the servant of the Lord ^(I)sent me from Kadesh-barnea to spy out the land, and I brought him word again as it was in my heart. ⁸ But ^(J)my brothers who went up with me made the heart of the people melt; yet I wholly followed the Lord my God. ⁹ And Moses swore on that day, saying, ^(K)‘Surely the land ^(L)on which your foot has trodden shall be an inheritance for you and your children forever, because you have wholly followed the Lord my God.’ ¹⁰ And now, behold, the Lord has kept me alive, ^(M)just as he said, these ^(N)forty-five years since the time that the Lord spoke this word to Moses, while Israel walked in the wilderness. And now, behold, I am this day ^(O)eighty-five years old. ^11 (P)I am still as strong today as I was in the day that Moses sent me; my strength now is as my strength was then, for war and ^(Q)for going and coming. ¹² So now give me this hill country of which the Lord spoke on that day, for you heard on that day how the ^(R)Anakim were there, with great fortified cities. It may be that the Lord will be with me, and I shall drive them out just as the Lord said.”

¹³ Then Joshua ^(S)blessed him, and he gave ^(T)Hebron to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for an inheritance. ¹⁴ Therefore Hebron became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite to this day, ^(U)because he wholly followed the Lord, the God of Israel. ^15 (V)Now the name of Hebron formerly was Kiriath-arba.^[a] (Arba^[b] was the greatest man among the Anakim.) ^(W)And the land had rest from war.

The Throne in Heaven

4 After this I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven! And the first voice, which I had heard speaking to me ^(A)like a trumpet, said, ^(B)“Come up here, and ^(C)I will show you what must take place after this.” ² At once ^(D)I was in the Spirit, and behold, ^(E)a throne stood in heaven, with one seated on the throne. ³ And he who sat there had the appearance of ^(F)jasper and carnelian, and around the throne was ^(G)a rainbow that had the appearance of an emerald. ⁴ Around the throne were ^(H)twenty-four thrones, and seated on the thrones were twenty-four elders, ^(I)clothed in white garments, with ^(J)golden crowns on their heads. ⁵ From the throne came ^(K)flashes of lightning, and rumblings^[a] and peals of thunder, and before the throne were burning ^(L)seven torches of fire, ^(M)which are the seven spirits of God, ⁶ and before the throne there was ^(N)as it were a sea of glass, like crystal.

And around the throne, on each side of the throne, are ^(O)four living creatures, ^(P)full of eyes in front and behind: ^7 (Q)the first living creature like a lion, the second living creature like an ox, the third living creature with the face of a man, and the fourth living creature like an eagle in flight. ⁸ And the four living creatures, ^(R)each of them with six wings, are ^(S)full of eyes all around and within, and ^(T)day and night they never cease to say,

⁹ And whenever the living creatures give glory and honor and thanks to him who is seated on the throne, ^(W)who lives forever and ever, ¹⁰ the twenty-four elders ^(X)fall down before him who is seated on the throne and worship him who lives forever and ever. They cast ^(Y)their crowns before the throne, saying,