“As for all the inhabitants of the mountain regions from Lebanon to Misrephoth Maim,(A) that is, all the Sidonians, I myself will drive them out(B) before the Israelites. Be sure to allocate this land to Israel for an inheritance, as I have instructed you,(C) and divide it as an inheritance(D) among the nine tribes and half of the tribe of Manasseh.”

Division of the Land East of the Jordan

The other half of Manasseh,[a] the Reubenites and the Gadites had received the inheritance that Moses had given them east of the Jordan, as he, the servant of the Lord, had assigned(E) it to them.(F)

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Footnotes

  1. Joshua 13:8 Hebrew With it (that is, with the other half of Manasseh)

All the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon unto Misrephothmaim, and all the Sidonians, them will I drive out from before the children of Israel: only divide thou it by lot unto the Israelites for an inheritance, as I have commanded thee.

Now therefore divide this land for an inheritance unto the nine tribes, and the half tribe of Manasseh,

With whom the Reubenites and the Gadites have received their inheritance, which Moses gave them, beyond Jordan eastward, even as Moses the servant of the Lord gave them;

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