Joshua 13

Great^{(i) 1} Iosua was olde, and strycken in yeares, and the Lorde sayde vnto hym: thou art olde and strycken in yeres, ² and there remayneth yet excedynge moche lande to be possessed: This is the lande that yet remayneth: all the regyons of the Philistines: & all Gesuri: ³ from Nilus which is on the outwarde parte of Egipt, vnto the borders of Aeckron northward, which lande is counted vnto Cananye, euen fyue Lordshippes of the Philistines, the Asathites, Asdodith, Ascalonites, Gethites, Akaronites, & the Euites. ⁴ And from the south, all the lande of the Cananites, and the caue, that is besyde the Sidonians, euen vnto Aphek, and to the border of the Amorites. ⁵ And the land of the Giblites, and all Libanon toward the sonne risynge, from the playne of Gad vnder mount Hermon, vntyl a man come to Hemath: ⁶ all the enhabitoures of the hyll country, from Libanon vnto the whotte waters, and all the Sidonians, wyll I cast out from before the children of Israel: onely se that thou in any wyse deuyde it by lotte vnto the Israelites, to enheret, as I haue commaunded the. ⁷ Now therfore deuide thys land to enheret, vnto the nyne trybes & the halfe trybe of Manasses. ⁸ For with the other halfe the Rubenites and the Gaddites haue receaued theyr enheritaunce, whych Moses gaue them beyonde Iordan eastwarde: euen as Moses the seruaunt of the Lord gaue them: ⁹ from Aroer that lyeth on the brym of the ryuer Arnon, and from the citie that is in the myddes of the ryuer. And all the playn of Medeba vnto Dibon, ¹⁰ & all the cyties of Sehon kynge of the Amorites, which raygned in Hesbon, euen vnto the border of the chyldren of Ammon: ¹¹ and Gilead, & the border of Gesuri and Machati, and all mount Hermon, with all Basan vnto Salecah: ¹² euen all the kyngdom of Og in Basan, whyche raygned in Astharoth and Edrai, which same remayned yett of the rest of the Giauntes. These dyd Moses smyte, & cast them out ¹³ Neuerthelesse the chyldren of Israel expelled not the Gesurites & the Machathites: But the Gesurites and the Machathites dwell amonge the Israelites euen vnto this daye, ¹⁴ Only vnto the trybe of Leui, he gaue none enheritaunce: But the offrynge of the Lorde God of Israel is theyr enheritaunce, as he sayde vnto them. ¹⁵ Moses gaue vnto the trybe of the chyldren of Ruben enheritaunce accordyng to theyr kynredes. ¹⁶ And theyr coast was from Aroer that lyeth on the bancke of the ryuer Arnon, & from the citie that is in the myddes of the ryuer, and all the playne which is by Medeba, ¹⁷ Hesbon, wyth all their townes that that lye in the playne: Dibon and the hyll places of Baal, and the house Baalmeon: ¹⁸ and Iahazah, and kedemoth and Mephaah ¹⁹ Kiriathaim, Sabamah and Zarath Zahar in the mounte of the valley, ²⁰ the house of Peor, and the sprynges of the hylles: and Bethiesimoth: ²¹ and all the cyties of the playne. And all the kyngdome of Sehon kynge of the Amorites, whych raygned in Hesbon, which Moses smote with the lordes of Madian, Eui, Rekem, Zur, and Hur and Reba, the which were dukes of Sehon dwellyng in the contrey. ²² And Balaam also the sonne of Beor the sothesayer, dyd the children of Israel slaye with the swerde, among other of them that were slayne. ²³ And the border of the chyldren of Ruben was Iordan with the contrey that lyeth theron. This was the enheritaunce of the chyldren of Ruben after their kynredes, cyties & villages pertaynynge therto. ²⁴ And Moses gaue enheritaunce vnto the trybe of Gad, euen vnto the chyldren of Gad he gaue by theyr kynredes. ²⁵ And theyr costes were Iazer, & all the cyties of Gilead, and halfe the lande of the chyldren of Ammon, vnto Aroer that lyeth before Rabba. ²⁶ And from Hesbon vnto Ramoth, Mazphah, & Betonim: and from Mahanaim vnto the borders of Lidbir. ²⁷ And in the valeye they had Betharan Bethnimra, Socoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kyngdome of Sehon kyng of Hesbon, vnto Iordan and the costes that lye theron, euen vnto the edge of the see of Ceneroth, on the other syde Iordan eastward. ²⁸ This is the enheritaunce of the children of Gad after their kynredes, their cyties and villages. ²⁹ And Moses gaue enheritaunce vnto the halfe trybe of Manasses. And this was the possession of the halfe trybe of Manasses by theyr kynredes. ³⁰ Theyr coste was from Mahanaim, euen all Basan, & all the kyngdom of Og kynge of Basan, and all the townes of Iair which lye in Basan, euen thre skore cyties, ³¹ & halfe Gilead, Astaroth, & Edrai, cyties of the kyngdome of Og in Basan whiche pertayne vnto the chyldren of Machir the sonne of Manasses, euen the halfe porcion of the chyldren of Machir by theyr kynredes. ³² These are the thinges which Moses did distribute in the feldes of Moab, on the other syde Iordan ouer against Iericho eastward. ³³ But vnto the trybe of Leui, Moses gaue none enheritaunce, for the Lorde God of Israell is their enheritaunce, as he sayd vnto them.