Kings Defeated by Moses

12 Now these are the kings of the land whom the people of Israel defeated and took possession of their land beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise, from ^(A)the Valley of the Arnon to Mount Hermon, with all ^(B)the Arabah eastward: ^2 (C)Sihon king of the Amorites who lived at Heshbon and ruled from Aroer, which is on the edge of the Valley of the Arnon, and ^(D)from the middle of the valley as far as the ^(E)river Jabbok, the boundary of the Ammonites, that is, half of Gilead, ³ and ^(F)the Arabah ^(G)to the Sea of Chinneroth eastward, and in the direction of Beth-jeshimoth, to the Sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, southward to the foot of ^(H)the slopes of Pisgah; ⁴ and ^(I)Og^[a] king of Bashan, one of the remnant of ^(J)the Rephaim, ^(K)who lived at Ashtaroth and at Edrei ⁵ and ruled over ^(L)Mount Hermon and ^(M)Salecah and all Bashan ^(N)to the boundary of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and over half of Gilead to the boundary of Sihon king of Heshbon. ^6 (O)Moses, the servant of the Lord, and the people of Israel defeated them. And Moses the servant of the Lord ^(P)gave their land for a possession to the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh.

Kings Defeated by Joshua

⁷ And these are the kings of the land whom Joshua and the people of Israel defeated on the west side of the Jordan, from Baal-gad in the Valley of Lebanon to ^(Q)Mount Halak, that rises toward Seir (and Joshua gave their land to the tribes of Israel as a possession ^(R)according to their allotments, ^8 (S)in the hill country, in the lowland, in the Arabah, in the slopes, in the wilderness, and in the Negeb, the land of ^(T)the Hittites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites): ^9 (U)the king of Jericho, one; ^(V)the king of Ai, which is beside Bethel, one; ^10 (W)the king of Jerusalem, one; ^(X)the king of Hebron, one; ^11 (Y)the king of Jarmuth, one; ^(Z)the king of Lachish, one; ^12 (AA)the king of Eglon, one; ^(AB)the king of Gezer, one; ^13 (AC)the king of Debir, one; the king of Geder, one; ¹⁴ the king of Hormah, one; the king of Arad, one; ^15 (AD)the king of Libnah, one; the king of Adullam, one; ^16 (AE)the king of Makkedah, one; ^(AF)the king of Bethel, one; ¹⁷ the king of Tappuah, one; the king of Hepher, one; ¹⁸ the king of Aphek, one; the king of Lasharon, one; ^19 (AG)the king of Madon, one; ^(AH)the king of Hazor, one; ^20 (AI)the king of Shimron-meron, one; ^(AJ)the king of Achshaph, one; ^21 (AK)the king of Taanach, one; ^(AL)the king of Megiddo, one; ²² the king of Kedesh, one; the king of Jokneam in Carmel, one; ^23 (AM)the king of Dor in ^(AN)Naphath-dor, one; the king of Goiim in Galilee,^[b] one; ²⁴ the king of Tirzah, one: in all, thirty-one kings.

Land Still to Be Conquered

13 Now Joshua ^(AO)was old and advanced in years, and the Lord said to him, “You are old and advanced in years, and there remains yet very much land ^(AP)to possess. ^2 (AQ)This is the land that yet remains: all the ^(AR)regions of the Philistines, and all those of the Geshurites ³ (from the ^(AS)Shihor, which is east of Egypt, northward to the boundary of Ekron, it is counted as Canaanite; ^(AT)there are five rulers of the Philistines, those of Gaza, Ashdod, Ashkelon, Gath, and Ekron), and those of ^(AU)the Avvim, ⁴ in the south, all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah that belongs to the Sidonians, to Aphek, to the boundary of ^(AV)the Amorites, ⁵ and the land of the ^(AW)Gebalites, and all Lebanon, toward the sunrise, from ^(AX)Baal-gad below Mount Hermon to ^(AY)Lebo-hamath, ⁶ all the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon to ^(AZ)Misrephoth-maim, even all the Sidonians. I myself will drive ^(BA)them out from before the people of Israel. Only ^(BB)allot the land to Israel ^(BC)for an inheritance, as I have commanded you. ⁷ Now therefore ^(BD)divide this land for an inheritance to the nine tribes and half the tribe of Manasseh.”

The Inheritance East of the Jordan

⁸ With the other half of the tribe of Manasseh^[c] the Reubenites and the Gadites received their inheritance, ^(BE)which Moses gave them, beyond the Jordan eastward, as Moses the servant of the Lord gave them: ^9 (BF)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 ^(BG)all the tableland of Medeba as far as Dibon; ^10 (BH)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 ^(BI)region of the Geshurites and Maacathites, and all Mount Hermon, and ^(BJ)all Bashan to Salecah; ^12 (BK)all the kingdom of Og in Bashan, who reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei (he alone was left of ^(BL)the remnant of the Rephaim); ^(BM)these Moses had struck and driven out. ^13 (BN)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 (BO)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, ^(BP)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 ^(BQ)Medeba; ¹⁷ with Heshbon, and all its cities that are in the tableland; ^(BR)Dibon, and Bamoth-baal, and Beth-baal-meon, ^18 (BS)and Jahaz, and Kedemoth, and Mephaath, ¹⁹ and ^(BT)Kiriathaim, and ^(BU)Sibmah, and Zereth-shahar on the hill of the valley, ²⁰ and ^(BV)Beth-peor, and ^(BW)the slopes of Pisgah, and ^(BX)Beth-jeshimoth, ²¹ that is, ^(BY)all the cities of the tableland, and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, ^(BZ)whom Moses defeated with ^(CA)the leaders of Midian, Evi and Rekem and Zur and Hur and Reba, the princes of Sihon, who lived in the land. ^22 (CB)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 (CC)Their territory was Jazer, and all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the Ammonites, to Aroer, which is east of ^(CD)Rabbah, ²⁶ and from Heshbon to Ramath-mizpeh and Betonim, and from ^(CE)Mahanaim to the territory of Debir,^{[d] 27} and in the valley Beth-haram, Beth-nimrah, ^(CF)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 ^(CG)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 ^(CH)Mahanaim, through all Bashan, the whole kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and all ^(CI)the towns of Jair, which are in Bashan, sixty cities, ³¹ and half Gilead, and ^(CJ)Ashtaroth, and Edrei, the cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan. These were allotted to the people of ^(CK)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 ^(CL)in the plains of Moab, beyond the Jordan east of Jericho. ^33 (CM)But to the tribe of Levi Moses gave no inheritance; the Lord God of Israel is their inheritance, ^(CN)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 ^(CO)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 ^(CP)by lot, just as the Lord had commanded by the hand of Moses for the nine and one-half tribes. ^3 (CQ)For Moses had given an inheritance to the two and one-half tribes beyond the Jordan, ^(CR)but to the Levites he gave no inheritance among them. ⁴ For ^(CS)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 ^(CT)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 ^(CU)Kenizzite said to him, “You know ^(CV)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 ^(CW)sent me from Kadesh-barnea to spy out the land, and I brought him word again as it was in my heart. ⁸ But ^(CX)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, ^(CY)‘Surely the land ^(CZ)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, ^(DA)just as he said, these ^(DB)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 ^(DC)eighty-five years old. ^11 (DD)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 ^(DE)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 ^(DF)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 ^(DG)blessed him, and he gave ^(DH)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, ^(DI)because he wholly followed the Lord, the God of Israel. ^15 (DJ)Now the name of Hebron formerly was Kiriath-arba.^[e] (Arba^[f] was the greatest man among the Anakim.) ^(DK)And the land had rest from war.

Principles for Marriage

7 Now concerning the matters about which you wrote: ^(A)“It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.” ² But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband. ^3 (B)The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband. ⁴ For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does. ^5 (C)Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, ^(D)so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

⁶ Now as a concession, ^(E)not a command, I say this.^{[a] 7 (F)}I wish that all were ^(G)as I myself am. But ^(H)each has his own gift from God, ^(I)one of one kind and one of another.

⁸ To the unmarried and the widows I say that ^(J)it is good for them to remain single, ^(K)as I am. ⁹ But if they cannot exercise self-control, ^(L)they should marry. For it is better to marry than to burn with passion.

¹⁰ To the married ^(M)I give this charge (not I, but the Lord): ^(N)the wife should not separate from her husband ¹¹ (but if she does, ^(O)she should remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband), and ^(P)the husband should not divorce his wife.

¹² To the rest I say (I, not the Lord) that if any brother has a wife who is an unbeliever, and she consents to live with him, he should not divorce her. ¹³ If any woman has a husband who is an unbeliever, and he consents to live with her, she should not divorce him. ¹⁴ For the unbelieving husband is made holy because of his wife, and the unbelieving wife is made holy because of her husband. ^(Q)Otherwise your children would be unclean, but as it is, they are holy. ¹⁵ But if the unbelieving partner separates, let it be so. In such cases the brother or sister is not enslaved. God has called you^{[b] (R)}to peace. ¹⁶ For how do you know, wife, ^(S)whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?

Live as You Are Called

¹⁷ Only let each person lead the life^{[c] (T)}that the Lord has assigned to him, and to which God has called him. ^(U)This is my rule in ^(V)all the churches. ¹⁸ Was anyone at the time of his call already circumcised? Let him not seek to remove the marks of circumcision. Was anyone at the time of his call uncircumcised? ^(W)Let him not seek circumcision. ^19 (X)For neither circumcision counts for anything nor uncircumcision, but ^(Y)keeping the commandments of God. ^20 (Z)Each one should remain in the condition in which he was called. ²¹ Were you a bondservant^[d] when called? Do not be concerned about it. (But if you can gain your freedom, avail yourself of the opportunity.) ²² For he who was called in the Lord as a bondservant is ^(AA)a freedman of the Lord. Likewise he who was free when called is ^(AB)a bondservant of Christ. ^23 (AC)You were bought with a price; ^(AD)do not become bondservants of men. ²⁴ So, brothers,^{[e] (AE)}in whatever condition each was called, there let him remain with God.

The Unmarried and the Widowed

²⁵ Now concerning^[f] the betrothed,^{[g] (AF)}I have no command from the Lord, but I give my judgment as ^(AG)one who by the Lord's mercy is ^(AH)trustworthy. ²⁶ I think that in view of the present^[h] distress ^(AI)it is good for a person to remain as he is. ²⁷ Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be free. Are you free from a wife? Do not seek a wife. ²⁸ But if you do marry, you have not sinned, and if a betrothed woman^[i] marries, she has not sinned. Yet those who marry will have worldly troubles, and I would spare you that. ²⁹ This is what I mean, brothers: ^(AJ)the appointed time has grown very short. From now on, let those who have wives live as though they had none, ³⁰ and those who mourn as though they were not mourning, and those who rejoice as though they were not rejoicing, and those who buy ^(AK)as though they had no goods, ³¹ and those who deal with the world as though they had no dealings with it. For ^(AL)the present form of this world is passing away.

³² I want you to be ^(AM)free from anxieties. ^(AN)The unmarried man is anxious about the things of the Lord, how to please the Lord. ³³ But the married man is anxious about worldly things, how to please his wife, ³⁴ and his interests are divided. And the unmarried or betrothed woman is anxious about the things of the Lord, how to be holy in body and spirit. But the married woman is anxious about worldly things, how to please her husband. ³⁵ I say this for your own benefit, ^(AO)not to lay any restraint upon you, but to promote good order and to secure your undivided devotion to the Lord.

³⁶ If anyone thinks that he is not behaving properly toward his betrothed,^[j] if his^[k] passions are strong, and it has to be, let him do as he wishes: let them marry—it is no sin. ³⁷ But whoever is firmly established in his heart, being under no necessity but having his desire under control, and has determined this in his heart, to keep her as his betrothed, he will do well. ³⁸ So then he who marries his betrothed ^(AP)does well, and he who refrains from marriage will do even better.

^39 (AQ)A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is free to be married to whom she wishes, only ^(AR)in the Lord. ⁴⁰ Yet ^(AS)in my judgment she is happier if she remains as she is. And I think ^(AT)that I too have the Spirit of God.