1 Next we turned and went up along the road toward Bashan, and Og king of Bashan with his whole army marched out to meet us in battle at Edrei.2 The LORD said to me, "Do not be afraid of him, for I have delivered him into your hands, along with his whole army and his land. Do to him what you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon."3 So the LORD our God also gave into our hands Og king of Bashan and all his army. We struck them down, leaving no survivors.4 At that time we took all his cities. There was not one of the sixty cities that we did not take from them —the whole region of Argob, Og's kingdom in Bashan.5 All these cities were fortified with high walls and with gates and bars, and there were also a great many unwalled villages.6 We completely destroyed "them, as we had done with Sihon king of Heshbon, destroying "every city —men, women and children.7 But all the livestock and the plunder from their cities we carried off for ourselves.8 So at that time we took from these two kings of the Amorites the territory east of the Jordan, from the Arnon Gorge as far as Mount Hermon.9 (Hermon is called Sirion by the Sidonians; the Amorites call it Senir.)10 We took all the towns on the plateau, and all Gilead, and all Bashan as far as Salekah and Edrei, towns of Og's kingdom in Bashan.11 (Og king of Bashan was the last of the Rephaites. His bed was decorated with iron and was more than nine cubits long and four cubits wide. "It is still in Rabbah of the Ammonites.)12 Of the land that we took over at that time, I gave the Reubenites and the Gadites the territory north of Aroer by the Arnon Gorge, including half the hill country of Gilead, together with its towns.13 The rest of Gilead and also all of Bashan, the kingdom of Og, I gave to the half-tribe of Manasseh. (The whole region of Argob in Bashan used to be known as a land of the Rephaites.14 Jair, a descendant of Manasseh, took the whole region of Argob as far as the border of the Geshurites and the Maakathites; it was named after him, so that to this day Bashan is called Havvoth Jair. ")15 And I gave Gilead to Makir.16 But to the Reubenites and the Gadites I gave the territory extending from Gilead down to the Arnon Gorge (the middle of the gorge being the border) and out to the Jabbok River, which is the border of the Ammonites.17 Its western border was the Jordan in the Arabah, from Kinnereth to the Sea of the Arabah (that is, the Dead Sea), below the slopes of Pisgah.18 I commanded you at that time: "The LORD your God has given you this land to take possession of it. But all your able-bodied men, armed for battle, must cross over ahead of the other Israelites.19 However, your wives, your children and your livestock (I know you have much livestock) may stay in the towns I have given you,20 until the LORD gives rest to your fellow Israelites as he has to you, and they too have taken over the land that the LORD your God is giving them across the Jordan. After that, each of you may go back to the possession I have given you."21 At that time I commanded Joshua: "You have seen with your own eyes all that the LORD your God has done to these two kings. The LORD will do the same to all the kingdoms over there where you are going.22 Do not be afraid of them; the LORD your God himself will fight for you."23 At that time I pleaded with the LORD:24 "Sovereign LORD, you have begun to show to your servant your greatness and your strong hand. For what god is there in heaven or on earth who can do the deeds and mighty works you do?25 Let me go over and see the good land beyond the Jordan —that fine hill country and Lebanon."26 But because of you the LORD was angry with me and would not listen to me. "That is enough," the LORD said. "Do not speak to me anymore about this matter.27 Go up to the top of Pisgah and look west and north and south and east. Look at the land with your own eyes, since you are not going to cross this Jordan.28 But commission Joshua, and encourage and strengthen him, for he will lead this people across and will cause them to inherit the land that you will see."29 So we stayed in the valley near 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.