The Inheritance East of the Jordan

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:

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Footnotes

  1. Joshua 13:8 Hebrew With it

(A)Moses, the servant of the Lord, and the people of Israel defeated them. And Moses the servant of the Lord (B)gave their land for a possession to the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh.

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(A)And now the Lord your God has given rest to your brothers, as he promised them. Therefore turn and go to your tents in the land where your possession lies, (B)which Moses the servant of the Lord gave you on the other side of the Jordan.

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12 The sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh (A)passed over armed before the people of Israel, as Moses had told them.

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12 “When we took possession of this land at that time, I gave to the Reubenites and the Gadites the territory beginning (A)at Aroer, which is on the edge of the Valley of the Arnon, and half the hill country of Gilead with (B)its cities. 13 (C)The rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, the kingdom of Og, that is, (D)all the region of Argob, I gave to the half-tribe of Manasseh. (All that portion of Bashan is called the land of (E)Rephaim. 14 (F)Jair the Manassite took all the region of Argob, that is, Bashan, as far as the border of (G)the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and called the villages (H)after his own name, Havvoth-jair, as it is to this day.) 15 To Machir (I)I gave Gilead, 16 and to the Reubenites (J)and the Gadites I gave the territory from Gilead as far as the Valley of the Arnon, with the middle of the valley as a border, as far over as the river Jabbok, (K)the border of the Ammonites; 17 the Arabah also, with the Jordan as the border, from (L)Chinnereth as far as (M)the Sea of the Arabah, (N)the Salt Sea, under (O)the slopes of Pisgah on the east.

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33 And (A)Moses gave to them, to the people of Gad and to the people of Reuben and to the half-tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land and its cities with their territories, the cities of the land throughout the country. 34 And the people of Gad built (B)Dibon, (C)Ataroth, (D)Aroer, 35 Atroth-shophan, (E)Jazer, Jogbehah, 36 (F)Beth-nimrah and Beth-haran, (G)fortified cities, and folds for sheep. 37 And the people of Reuben built (H)Heshbon, (I)Elealeh, Kiriathaim, 38 (J)Nebo, and (K)Baal-meon ((L)their names were changed), and (M)Sibmah. And they gave other names to the cities that they built. 39 And the sons of (N)Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead and captured it, and dispossessed the Amorites who were in it. 40 And Moses (O)gave Gilead to Machir the son of Manasseh, and he settled in it. 41 And (P)Jair the son of Manasseh went and captured their villages, and called them Havvoth-jair.[a] 42 And Nobah went and captured Kenath and its villages, and called it Nobah, after his own name.

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 32:41 Havvoth-jair means the villages of Jair

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