1 Then turning we took the road to Bashan: and Og, king of Bashan, came out against us with all his people, and made an attack on us at Edrei.2 And the Lord said to me, Have no fear of him: for I have given him and all his people and his land into your hands; do to him as you did to Sihon, king of the Amorites, who was ruling in Heshbon.3 So the Lord our God gave up Og, king of Bashan, and all his people into our hands; and we overcame him so completely that all his people came to their end in the fight.4 At that time we took all his towns; there was not one town of the sixty towns, all the country of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan, which we did not take.5 All these towns had high walls round them with doors and locks; and in addition we took a great number of unwalled towns.6 And we put them to the curse, every town together with men, women, and children.7 But we took for ourselves all the cattle and the stored wealth of the towns.8 At that time we took their land from the two kings of the Amorites on the far side of Jordan, from the valley of the Arnon to Mount Hermon;9 (By the Sidonians, Hermon is named Sirion, and by the Amorites Shenir;)10 All the towns of the table-land and all Gilead and Bashan as far as Salecah and Edrei, towns of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.11 (For Og, king of Bashan, was the last of all the Rephaim; his bed was made of iron; is it not in Rabbah, in the land of the children of Ammon? It was nine cubits long and four cubits wide, measured by the common cubit.)12 And this land which we took at that time, from Aroer by the valley of the Arnon, and half the hill-country of Gilead with its towns, I gave to the Reubenites and the Gadites.13 The rest of Gilead and all Bashan, the kingdom of Og, all the land of Argob, together with Bashan, I gave to the half-tribe of Manasseh. (This land is named the land of the Rephaim.14 Jair, the son of Manasseh, took all the land of Argob, as far as the country of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, naming it, Bashan, Havvoth-Jair after himself, as it is to this day.)15 And Gilead I gave to Machir.16 And the land from Gilead to the valley of the Arnon, with the middle of the valley as a limit, as far as the river Jabbok which is the limit of the country of the children of Ammon, I gave to the Reubenites and the Gadites;17 As well as the Arabah, with the river Jordan as their limit, from Chinnereth to the Salt Sea, under the slopes of Pisgah to the east.18 At that time I gave you orders, saying, The Lord has given you this land for your heritage: all the men of war are to go over armed before your brothers the children of Israel.19 But your wives and your little ones and your cattle (for it is clear that you have much cattle) may go on living in the towns I have given you;20 Till the Lord has given rest to your brothers as to you, and till they have taken for themselves the land which the Lord your God is giving them on the other side of Jordan: then you may go back, every man of you, to the heritage which I have given you.21 And I gave orders to Joshua at that time, saying, Your eyes have seen what the Lord your God has done to these two kings: so will the Lord do to all the kingdoms into which you come.22 Have no fear of them, for the Lord your God will be fighting for you.23 And at that time I made request to the Lord, saying,24 O Lord God, you have now for the first time let your servant see your great power and the strength of your hand; for what god is there in heaven or on earth able to do such great works and such acts of power?25 Let me go over, O Lord, and see the good land on the other side of Jordan, and that fair mountain country, even Lebanon.26 But the Lord was angry with me because of you and would not give ear to my prayer; and the Lord said to me, Let it be enough, say no more about this thing.27 Go up to the top of Pisgah, and turning your eyes to the west and the north, to the south and the east, see the land with your eyes: for you are not to go over Jordan.28 But give my orders to Joshua, comforting him and making him strong; for he is to go over Jordan at the head of this people, and he will give them this land which you will see for their heritage.29 So we were waiting in the valley facing Beth-peor.

1 Itaque conversi ascendimus per iter Basan : egressusque est Og rex Basan in occursum nobis cum populo suo ad bellandum in Edrai. 2 Dixitque Dominus ad me : Ne timeas eum : quia in manu tua traditus est cum omni populo ac terra sua : faciesque ei sicut fecisti Sehon regi Amorrhorum, qui habitavit in Hesebon. 3 Tradidit ergo Dominus Deus noster in manibus nostris etiam Og regem Basan, et universum populum ejus : percussimusque eos usque ad internecionem, 4 vastantes cunctas civitates illius uno tempore. Non fuit oppidum, quod nos effugeret : sexaginta urbes, omnem regionem Argob regni Og in Basan. 5 Cunct urbes erant munit muris altissimis, portisque et vectibus, absque oppidis innumeris, qu non habebant muros. 6 Et delevimus eos, sicut feceramus Sehon regi Hesebon, disperdentes omnem civitatem, virosque ac mulieres et parvulos : 7 jumenta autem et spolia urbium diripuimus. 8 Tulimusque illo in tempore terram de manu duorum regum Amorrhorum, qui erant trans Jordanem : a torrente Arnon usque ad montem Hernon, 9 quem Sidonii Sarion vocant, et Amorrhi Sanir : 10 omnes civitates, qu sit sunt in planitie, et universam terram Galaad et Basan usque ad Selcha, et Edrai civitates regni Og in Basan. 11 Solus quippe Og rex Basan restiterat de stirpe gigantum. Monstratur lectus ejus ferreus, qui est in Rabbath filiorum Ammon, novem cubitos habens longitudinis, et quatuor latitudinis ad mensuram cubiti virilis manus.12 Terramque possedimus tempore illo ab Aror, qu est super ripam torrentis Arnon, usque ad mediam partem montis Galaad : et civitates illius dedi Ruben et Gad. 13 Reliquam autem partem Galaad, et omnem Basan regni Og, tradidi medi tribui Manasse, omnem regionem Argob : cunctaque Basan vocatur Terra gigantum. 14 Jair filius Manasse possedit omnem regionem Argob usque ad terminos Gessuri et Machati. Vocavitque ex nomine suo Basan, Havoth Jair, id est, Villas Jair, usque in prsentem diem. 15 Machir quoque dedi Galaad. 16 Et tribubus Ruben et Gad dedi de terra Galaad usque ad torrentem Arnon medium torrentis, et confinium usque ad torrentem Jeboc, qui est terminus filiorum Ammon : 17 et planitiem solitudinis, atque Jordanem, et terminos Cenereth usque ad mare deserti, quod est salsissimum, ad radices montis Phasga contra orientem. 18 Prcepique vobis in tempore illo, dicens : Dominus Deus vester dat vobis terram hanc in hreditatem : expediti prcedite fratres vestros filios Isral omnes viri robusti, 19 absque uxoribus, et parvulis, atque jumentis. Novi enim quod plura habeatis pecora, et in urbibus remanere debebunt, quas tradidi vobis, 20 donec requiem tribuat Dominus fratribus vestris, sicut vobis tribuit : et possideant ipsi etiam terram, quam daturus est eis trans Jordanem : tunc revertetur unusquisque in possessionem suam, quam dedi vobis.21 Josue quoque in tempore illo prcepi, dicens : Oculi tui viderunt qu fecit Dominus Deus vester duobus his regibus : sic faciet omnibus regnis, ad qu transiturus es. 22 Ne timeas eos : Dominus enim Deus vester pugnabit pro vobis. 23 Precatusque sum Dominum in tempore illo, dicens : 24 Domine Deus, tu cpisti ostendere servo tuo magnitudinem tuam, manumque fortissimam : neque enim est alius deus vel in clo, vel in terra, qui possit facere opera tua, et comparari fortitudini tu. 25 Transibo igitur, et videbo terram hanc optimam trans Jordanem, et montem istum egregium, et Libanum. 26 Iratusque est Dominus mihi propter vos, nec exaudivit me, sed dixit mihi : Sufficit tibi : nequaquam ultra loquaris de hac re ad me. 27 Ascende cacumen Phasg, et oculos tuos circumfer ad occidentem, et ad aquilonem, austrumque et orientem, et aspice ; nec enim transibis Jordanem istum. 28 Prcipe Josue, et corrobora eum atque conforta : quia ipse prcedet populum istum, et dividet eis terram quam visurus es. 29 Mansimusque in valle contra fanum Phogor.