Victory over Og of Bashan
1Then we turned and went up the road toward Bashan, and Og king of Bashan came out against us, he and all his people, to fight at Edrei. 2Yahweh said to me, “Do not be afraid of him, for I have given him, all his people, and his land into your hand. You will do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon.” 3So Yahweh our God also gave Og king of Bashan and all his people into our hand, and we struck him down until no survivor was left to him. 4We captured all his cities at that time — there was not a town we did not take from them — sixty cities, the whole region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan. 5All these were cities fortified with high walls, gates, and bars, besides a great many unwalled villages. 6We devoted them to destruction, as we had done to Sihon king of Heshbon, devoting every city — men, women, and children. 7But all the livestock and the plunder of the cities we kept for ourselves. 8So at that time we took the land from the hand of the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, from the Wadi Arnon to Mount Hermon 9(the Sidonians call Hermon Sirion, and the Amorites call it Senir) — 10all the towns of the plateau, all Gilead, and all Bashan, as far as Salcah and Edrei, the cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan. 11Only Og king of Bashan was left of the remaining Rephaim. His bed was an iron bed — is it not still in Rabbah of the Ammonites? It is nine cubits long and four cubits wide, by the common cubit.
The land divided east of the Jordan
12So we took possession of this land at that time. I gave to the Reubenites and the Gadites the territory from Aroer, on the Wadi Arnon, and half the hill country of Gilead, with its cities. 13The rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, the kingdom of Og, I gave to the half-tribe of Manasseh — the whole region of Argob, all of Bashan, which used to be called the land of the Rephaim. 14Jair, a descendant of Manasseh, took the whole region of Argob as far as the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and named it — Bashan — after himself: the Villages of Jair, as it is called to this day. 15To Machir I gave Gilead. 16To the Reubenites and the Gadites I gave the territory from Gilead to the Wadi Arnon, the middle of the valley forming the border, as far as the Wadi Jabbok, the border of the Ammonites, 17together with the Arabah and the Jordan as a border, from Chinnereth to the Sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, below the slopes of Pisgah on the east. 18At that time I commanded you, “Yahweh your God has given you this land to possess. All your fighting men are to cross over armed, ahead of your fellow Israelites. 19Only your wives, your little ones, and your livestock — I know you have much livestock — may stay behind in the towns I have given you, 20until Yahweh gives rest to your brothers as he has to you, and they too take possession of the land Yahweh your God is giving them across the Jordan. Then each of you may return to the possession I have given you.” 21And I commanded Joshua at that time, “Your own eyes have seen everything Yahweh your God has done to these two kings. Yahweh will do the same to all the kingdoms you are about to enter. 22Do not be afraid of them, for Yahweh your God himself will fight for you.”
Moses’ plea, and Yahweh’s refusal
23At that time I begged Yahweh, 24“Lord Yahweh, you have begun to show your servant your greatness and your mighty hand. What god in heaven or on earth can do the works and mighty acts you do? 25Please let me cross over and see the good land beyond the Jordan, that fine hill country, and Lebanon.” 26But Yahweh was angry with me because of you and would not listen to me. Yahweh said to me, “Enough. Do not speak to me again about this. 27Go up to the top of Pisgah and look to the west, the north, the south, and the east; look well, for you will not cross this Jordan. 28Charge Joshua; encourage him and strengthen him, for he will cross over ahead of this people, and he will give them the land you will see as their inheritance.” 29So we stayed in the valley opposite Beth-peor.
