1-6. When Joshua had reached a venerable age, God said to him, “You’ve had a good, long life, but there is a lot of land still to be taken. This is the land that remains:all the districts of the Philistines and Geshurites;the land from the Shihor River east of Egypt to the border of Ekron up north, Canaanite country (there were five Philistine tyrants—in Gaza, in Ashdod, in Ashkelon, in Gath, in Ekron); also the Avvim from the south;all the Canaanite land from Arah (belonging to the Sidonians) to Aphek at the Amorite border;the country of the Gebalites;all Lebanon eastward from Baal Gad in the shadow of Mount Hermon to the Entrance of Hamath;all who live in the mountains, from Lebanon to Misrephoth Maim;all the Sidonians.
14. Levi was the only tribe that did not receive an inheritance. The Fire-Gift-Offerings to God, the God of Israel, are their inheritance, just as he told them.
15-22. To the tribe of Reuben, clan by clan, Moses gave:the land from Aroer at the edge of the Arnon Gorge and the town in the middle of the valley, including the tableland around Medeba;Heshbon on the tableland with all its towns (Dibon, Bamoth Baal, Beth Baal Meon, Jahaz, Kedemoth, Mephaath, Kiriathaim, Sibmah, Zereth Shahar on Valley Mountain, Beth Peor, the slopes of Pisgah, Beth Jeshimoth);and all the cities of the tableland, the whole kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, who ruled at Heshbon, whom Moses put to death along with the princes of Midian: Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, who lived in that country, all puppets of Sihon. (In addition to those killed in battle, Balaam son of Beor, the soothsayer, was put to death by the People of Israel.)