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All the districts of the Philistines and all of the Geshurites, ³ from the Shihor, which is east of Egypt, to the border of Ekron on the north. (This is reckoned as belonging to the Canaanites, but includes the five serens^[h] of the Philistines, the serens of Gaza, Ashdod, Ashkelon, Gath, and Ekron, as well as the Avvites ⁴ on the south.)

All the land of the Canaanites, and Me’arah,^[i] which belongs to the Sidonians, as far as Aphek, up to the border of the Amorites.

⁵ The land of the Gebalites,^[j] and all of Lebanon toward the rising of the sun, from Baal Gad below Mount Hermon up to the entry to Hamath, ⁶ all the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon to Misrephoth Maim, and all the Sidonians.

⁹ It extended from Aroer, which is on the edge of the Arnon Canyon, and from the city that is in the middle of the canyon, and included all the tableland^[k] from Medeba to Dibon.

¹⁰ It included all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, who ruled in Heshbon, up to the border of the people of Ammon;

¹¹ also Gilead, and the territory of the Geshurites and the Ma’akathites, and all Mount Hermon and all of Bashan to Salekah;

¹² also all the kingdom of Og in Bashan, who ruled in Ashtaroth and in Edrei.

(Og himself was left from the remnant of the Rephaim,^[l] and Moses struck them down and drove them out.)

¹⁶ Their territory included Aroer, which is on the edge of the Arnon Canyon, and the city that is in the middle of the canyon, and all of the tableland by Medeba.

¹⁷ It included Heshbon and all its cities that are in the tableland, also Dibon, Bamoth Baal, and Beth Baal Meon, ¹⁸ also Jahaz, Kedemoth, and Mepha’ath;

¹⁹ also Kiriathaim, and Sibmah, and Zereth Shahar on the hill in the valley, ²⁰ and Beth Peor, and the slopes of Pisgah, and Beth Jeshimoth, ²¹ all the cities of the tableland.

It included the whole kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, who ruled in Heshbon, whom Moses had struck down, together with the chiefs of Midian, namely, Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, who were subject kings under Sihon and lived in his land.

²² In addition to the Midianites who were killed, the Israelites killed with the sword Balaam son of Beor, who practiced divination.

²³ The border of the descendants of Reuben was the Jordan River. This was the border of the inheritance of the descendants of Reuben according to their clans—the cities and their villages.

²⁵ Their territory included Jazer, and all the cities of Gilead, and half of the land of the descendants of Ammon, as far as Aroer, which is near Rabbah.

²⁶ Also it extended from Heshbon to Ramat Hamizpah and Betonim, and from Mahanaim to the border of Debir.

²⁷ Also in the valley he gave them Beth Haram, Beth Nimrah, and Succoth, as well as Zaphon, and the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, with the Jordan as a border, up to the end of the Sea of Galilee,^[m] the region beyond the Jordan to the east.

²⁸ This is the inheritance of the descendants of Gad according to their clans—the cities and their villages.

³⁰ Their territory extended from Mahanaim through all of Bashan, including all the kingdom of Og king of Bashan and all the tent villages of Jair, which are in Bashan—sixty cities in all.

³¹ He gave half of Gilead, also Ashtaroth and Edrei, cities belonging to the kingdom of Og in Bashan, to the descendants of Makir, the son of Manasseh, to half of the descendants of Makir according to their clans.

You know what the Lord spoke to Moses, the man of God, concerning you and me in Kadesh Barnea. ⁷ I was forty years old when Moses, the servant of the Lord, sent me from Kadesh Barnea to scout the land, and I brought back to him my heartfelt advice. ⁸ When my brother Israelites who went up with me made the hearts of the people melt, I nevertheless fully followed the Lord my God. ⁹ So Moses swore an oath to me on that day. He said, “Most certainly the land on which your foot has walked shall be an inheritance for you and for your children forever, because you fully followed the Lord my God.”

¹⁰ So now as you see, the Lord has kept me alive, just as he said, for these forty-five years since the Lord spoke this promise to Moses when Israel was traveling in the wilderness. So now, here I am today, eighty-five years old! ¹¹ I am still as strong today as on the day that Moses sent me out. My strength for going out and for coming back from battle is the same now as it was then.

¹² So now, give me this place in the hill country that the Lord promised that day. Even though you heard on that day that the Anakites are there, as well as large fortified cities, perhaps the Lord will be with me, and I will drive them out, just as the Lord said.

² Their border on the south started from the south end of the Dead Sea,^[p] from the bay^[q] that faces south.

³ It goes south from the Ascent of Akrabbim and crosses over to Zin and ascends from south of Kadesh Barnea.

Then it crosses over to Hezron and ascends to Adar and curves around to Karka.

⁴ Then it crosses over to Azmon and goes out to the Stream of Egypt.^[r]

The border ends at the Mediterranean Sea.

This is your southern border.

⁵ The border on the east is the Dead Sea,^[s] up to the mouth of the Jordan.

The border on the north side starts from the bay of the sea at the mouth of the Jordan.

⁶ The border ascends to Beth Hoglah and crosses over north of Beth Arabah.

Then the border ascends to the Stone of Bohan, the son of Reuben.

⁷ Then the border ascends to Debir from the Valley of Achor and turns north toward Gilgal, which is opposite the Ascent of Adummim, which is south of the streambed.

Then the border crosses over to the waters of En Shemesh, ending at En Rogel.

⁸ Then the border ascends through the Valley of the Son of Hinnom at the slope of the Jebusites on the south side of Jerusalem.

Then the border ascends to the top of the mountain that is across the Valley of Hinnom on the west side, where Hinnom meets the north end of the Valley of Rephaim.

⁹ Then the border bends from the top of the mountain to the spring of the Waters of Nephtoah and goes out to the cities of Mount Ephron.

Then the border bends toward Baalah—that is, Kiriath Jearim.

¹⁰ The border curves around from Baalah westward to Mount Seir and crosses over to the slope of Mount Jearim from the north—that is, Kesalon—and descends to Beth Shemesh, then crosses over to Timnah.

¹¹ The border goes out to the slope of Ekron, on the north.

Then the border bends to Shikkeron and crosses over Mount Baalah and goes out to Jabne’el, and the border ends at the sea.

¹² The border on the west—the Mediterranean Sea^[t] is the border.

Kabze’el, Eder, Jagur, ²² Kinah, Dimonah, Adadah, ²³ Kedesh, Hazor, Ithnan, ²⁴ Ziph, Telem, Bealoth, ²⁵ Hazor Hadattah, Kerioth Hezron (that is, Hazor), ²⁶ Amam, Shema, Moladah, ²⁷ Hazar Gaddah, Heshmon, Beth Pelet, ²⁸ Hazar Shual, Beersheba, Biziothiah, ²⁹ Baalah, Iyim, Ezem, ³⁰ Eltolad, Kesil, Hormah, ³¹ Ziklag, Madmannah, Sansannah, ³² Lebaoth, Shilhim, Ain, and Rimmon—twenty-nine cities and their villages.^[w]

Eshtaol, Zorah, Ashnah, ³⁴ Zanoah, En Gannim, Tappuah, Enam, ³⁵ Jarmuth, Adullam, Sokoh, Azekah, ³⁶ Sha’araim, Adithaim, Gederah, and Gederothaim^[x]—fourteen cities and their villages.

³⁷ Zenan, Hadashah, Migdal Gad, ³⁸ Dilan, Mizpah, Jokthe’el, ³⁹ Lachish, Bozkath, Eglon, ⁴⁰ Kabbon, Lahmas, Kitlish, ⁴¹ Gederoth, Beth Dagon, Na’amah, and Makkedah—sixteen cities and their villages.

⁴² Libnah, Ether, Ashan, ⁴³ Iphtah, Ashnah, Nezib, ⁴⁴ Keilah, Akzib, and Mareshah—nine cities and their villages.

⁴⁵ Ekron and its surrounding towns^[y] and its villages.

⁴⁶ West of Ekron, all the towns that are near Ashdod and their villages.

⁴⁷ Also Ashdod with its surrounding towns and its villages.

Gaza with its surrounding towns and its villages, as far as the Stream of Egypt, with the Mediterranean Sea as the boundary.

Shamir, Jattir, Sokoh, ⁴⁹ Dannah, Kiriath Sannah (that is, Debir), ⁵⁰ Anab, Eshtemoh, Anim, ⁵¹ Goshen, Holon, and Giloh—eleven cities and their villages.

⁵² Arab, Rumah, Eshan, ⁵³ Janum, Beth Tappuah, Aphekah, ⁵⁴ Humtah, Kiriath Arba (that is, Hebron), and Zior—nine cities and their villages.

⁵⁵ Maon, Carmel, Ziph, Juttah, ⁵⁶ Jezre’el, Jokdeam, Zanoah, ⁵⁷ Kain, Gibeah, and Timnah—ten cities and their villages.

⁵⁸ Halhul, Beth Zur, Gedor, ⁵⁹ Ma’arath, Beth Anoth, and Eltekon—six cities and their villages.

⎣Tekoa, Ephrathah (that is, Bethlehem), Peor, Etam, Kolan, Tatem, Shoresh, Kerem, Gallim, Bether and Manoko—eleven cities and their villages.⎦ ^[z]

⁶⁰ Kiriath Baal (that is, Kiriath Jearim) and Rabbah—two cities and their villages.

Beth Arabah, Middin, Sekakah, ⁶² Nibshan, Ir Melah, and En Gedi—six cities and their villages.