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With it[a] the Reubenites,[b] and the Gadites[c] received their inheritance, which Moses gave them beyond the Jordan to the east, just as Moses Yahweh’s servant gave to them: from Aroer, which is on the edge of the wadi[d] of Arnon, and the city which is in the middle of the wadi, and all the plateau from Medeba up to Dibon; 10 and all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites,[e] who reigned in Heshbon up to the border of the Ammonites;[f]

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Footnotes

  1. Joshua 13:8 That is, the other half-tribe of Manasseh
  2. Joshua 13:8 Hebrew “Reubenite”
  3. Joshua 13:8 Hebrew “Gadite”
  4. Joshua 13:9 A valley that is dry most of the year, but contains a stream during the rainy season
  5. Joshua 13:10 Hebrew “Amorite”
  6. Joshua 13:10 Literally “sons/children of Ammon”

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(A) it to them.(B)

It extended from Aroer(C) on the rim of the Arnon Gorge, and from the town in the middle of the gorge, and included the whole plateau(D) of Medeba as far as Dibon,(E) 10 and all the towns of Sihon king of the Amorites, who ruled in Heshbon,(F) out to the border of the Ammonites.(G)

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Footnotes

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