7. “Now divide the land among the nine tribes and West Manasseh.”
8. East Manasseh and the tribes of Reuben and Gad had received their land. The Lord’s servant Moses had given them the land east of the Jordan River.
9. Their land started at Aroer at the Arnon Ravine and continued to the town in the middle of the ravine, and it included the whole plain from Medeba to Dibon.
10. All the towns ruled by Sihon king of the Amorites, who ruled in the city of Heshbon, were in that land. The land continued to the area where the Ammonites lived.
11. Gilead was also there, as well as the area where the people of Geshur and Maacah lived, and all of Mount Hermon and Bashan as far as Salecah.
12. All the kingdom of Og king of Bashan was in the land. Og was one of the last of the Rephaites, and in the past he ruled in Ashtaroth and Edrei. Moses had defeated them and had taken their land.
13. Because the Israelites did not force out the people of Geshur and Maacah, they still live among the Israelites today.
14. The tribe of Levi was the only one that did not get any land. Instead, they were given all the burned sacrifices made to the Lord, the God of Israel, as he had promised them.
15. Moses had given each family group from the tribe of Reuben some land:
16. Theirs was the land from Aroer near the Arnon Ravine to the town of Medeba, including the whole plain and the town in the middle of the ravine;
17. Heshbon and all the towns on the plain: Dibon, Bamoth Baal, and Beth Baal Meon,
18. Jahaz, Kedemoth, Mephaath,