1   Next we turned and advanced along the road to Bashan. Og king of Bashan, with all his people, came out against us at Edrei. 2   The Lord said to me, ‘Do not be afraid of him, for I have delivered him into your hands, with all his people and his land. Deal with him as you dealt with Sihon the king of the Amorites who lived in Heshbon.’ 3   So the Lord our God also delivered Og king of Bashan into our hands, with all his people. 4   We slaughtered them and left no survivor, and at the same time we captured all his cities; there was not a single town that we did not take from them. In all we took sixty cities, the whole region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan; 5   all these were fortified cities with high walls, gates, and bars, apart from a great many open settlements. 6   Thus we put to death all the men, women, and dependants in every city, as we did to Sihon king of Heshbon. 7   All the cattle and the spoil from the cities we took as booty for ourselves.

8   At that time we took from these two Amorite kings in Transjordan the territory that runs from the gorge of the Arnon to Mount Hermon (the mountain that the Sidonians call Sirion and the Amorites Senir), 9    all the cities of the tableland, 10   and the whole of Gilead and Bashan as far as Salcah and Edrei, cities in the kingdom of Og in Bashan. 11   (Only Og king of Bashan remained as the sole survivor of the Rephaim. His sarcophagus of basalt ^note was nearly fourteen feet long and six feet wide, ^note and it may still be seen in the Ammonite city of Rabbah.)

12   At that time, when we occupied this territory, I assigned to the Reubenites and Gadites the land beyond Aroer on the gorge of the Arnon and half the hill-country of Gilead with its towns. 13   The rest of Gilead and the whole of Bashan the kingdom of Og, all the region of Argob, I assigned to half the tribe of Manasseh. (All Bashan used to be called the land of the Rephaim. 14   Jair son of Manasseh took all the region of Argob as far as the Geshurite and Maacathite border. There are tent-villages in Bashan still called by his name, Havvoth-jair. ^note) 15   To Machir I assigned Gilead, 16   and to the Reubenites and the Gadites I assigned land from Gilead to the gorge of the Arnon, that is to the middle of the gorge; and its territory ran ^{note note} to the gorge of the Jabbok, the Ammonite frontier, 17   and included the Arabah, with the Jordan and adjacent land,

Primary charge of Moses to the people from Kinnereth to the Sea of the Arabah, that is the Dead Sea, below the watershed of Pisgah on the east. 18   At that time I gave you this command: ‘The Lord your God has given you this land to occupy; let all your fighting men be drafted and cross at the head of their fellow-Israelites. 19   Only your wives and dependants and your livestock—I know you have much livestock—shall stay in the towns I have given you. 20   This you shall do until the Lord gives your kinsmen security as he has given it to you, and until they too occupy the land which the Lord your God is giving them on the other side of the Jordan; then you may return to the possession which I have given you, every man to his own.’

21   At that time also I gave Joshua this charge: ‘You have seen with your own eyes all that the Lord your God has done to these two kings; he will do the same to all the kingdoms into which you will cross over. 22   Do not be afraid of them, for the Lord your God himself will fight for you.’

23    24   At that same time I pleaded with the Lord, ‘O Lord God, thou hast begun to show to thy servant thy greatness and thy strong hand: what god is there in heaven or on earth who can match thy works and mighty deeds? 25   Let me cross over and see that rich land which lies beyond the Jordan, and the fine hill-country and the Lebanon.’ 26   But because of you the Lord brushed me aside and would not listen. ‘Enough!’ he answered. 27   ‘Say no more about this. Go to the top of Pisgah and look west and north, south and east; look well at what you see, for you shall not cross this river Jordan. 28   Give Joshua his commission, encourage him and strengthen him; for he will lead this people across, and he will put them in possession of the land you see before you.’

29   So we remained in the valley opposite Beth-peor.

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