Deuteronomy 3:8–17

The Land of the Transjordan Tribes

⁸“At that time we took the land from the two Amorite kings across the Jordan, ^afrom the Arnon Valley as far as Mount Hermon, ⁹which the Sidonians call Sirion, but the Amorites call Senir, ¹⁰all the cities of the plateau, Gilead, and Bashan as far as Salecah and Edrei, cities of Og’s kingdom in Bashan. ^b11(Only Og king of Bashan was left of the remnant of the Rephaim. ^cHis bed was made of iron. ^dIsn’t it in Rabbah of the Ammonites? ^eIt is 13 feet six inches long and six feet wide by a standard measure. ^f) ^g

¹²“At that time we took possession of this land. ^hI gave to the Reubenites and Gadites the area extending from Aroer by the Arnon Valley, and half the hill country of Gilead along with its cities. ¹³I gave to half the tribe of Manasseh the rest of Gilead and all Bashan, the kingdom of Og. The entire region of Argob, the whole territory of Bashan, used to be called the land of the Rephaim. ¹⁴Jair, a descendant of Manasseh, took over the entire region of Argob as far as the border of the Geshurites and Maacathites. He called Bashan by his own name, Jair’s Villages, ⁱas it is today. ¹⁵I gave Gilead to Machir, ¹⁶and I gave to the Reubenites and Gadites the area extending from Gilead to the Arnon Valley (the middle of the valley was the border) and up to the Jabbok River, the border of the Ammonites. ¹⁷The Arabah and Jordan are also borders from Chinnereth ^jas far as the Sea of the Arabah, the Dead Sea, under the slopes of Pisgah on the east. ^k