¹Then we turned and went up by the way of Bashan, and Og king of Bashan came out to confront us – he and all his people – to battle at Edrei. ²And the Lord said to me, ‘Do not fear him, for I have handed him over to you, and all his people, and his land. And you will do to him what you did to Sihon king of the Amorites who lived in Heshbon.’ ³And the Lord our God also handed Og king of Bashan over to us, and all his people, and we defeated him to the extent that no survivor remained to him. ⁴And we captured all his cities at that time – there was no town that we did not capture from them – sixty cities, the whole region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan. ⁵All of these were cities fortified with a high wall, gates and bolts, apart from the very many open rural towns, ⁶and we utterly destroyed them, as we did to Sihon king of Heshbon, in utterly destroying in every city the men, the women, and the little ones. ⁷And we took all the cattle and booty of the towns as spoil for ourselves. ⁸And at that time we took the land from the two Amorite kings who were across the Jordan, from the Arnon Brook to Mount Hermon. ⁹(The Sidonians call Hermon Sirion, and the Amorites call it Senir.) ¹⁰We took all the cities of the plain and all Gilead and all Bashan as far as Salchah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan. ¹¹For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of the Rephaim. Note how his bed was a bed of iron – is it not in Rabbath of the sons of Ammon? Its length is nine cubits, and its width is four cubits, according to the common cubit. ¹²And we took possession of this land at that time, from Aroer which is on the Arnon Brook, and half of Mount Gilead and its cities, and I gave them to the Reubenites and the Gadites. ¹³And I gave the remainder of Gilead and all of Bashan, the kingdom of Og, to half of the tribe of Manasseh – all the region of Argob with all of Bashan. That is called the land of the Rephaim. ¹⁴Jair the son of Manasseh captured the whole of the region of Argob as far as the border with the Geshurites and Maachathites, and he called the villages after his own name: he called Bashan the Villages of Jair, as it is up to this day. ¹⁵And I gave Gilead to Machir. ¹⁶And I gave the region from Gilead to the Arnon Brook to the Reubenites and the Gadites, the mid-line of the brook being a border up to the Jabbok Brook, the border of the sons of Ammon, ¹⁷and the arid tract and the Jordan, whose border is from Kinnereth to the sea of the arid tract, the Salt Sea, under Ashdoth-Pisgah to the east. ¹⁸And I commanded you at that time and said, ‘The Lord your God has given you this land to possess. You will cross it armed before your brothers the sons of Israel – all those who are soldiers. ¹⁹But your wives and your children and your cattle – I know that you have a lot of cattle – will stay in your cities which I have given you, ²⁰until the Lord settles your brothers like you, and they too have taken possession of the land which the Lord your God is giving them across the Jordan, and each man will return to his possession which I will have given you.’ ²¹And I commanded Joshua at that time, and I said, ‘Your eyes have seen everything the Lord your God has done to these two kings. The Lord will do likewise to all the kingdoms to which you cross. ²²Do not fear them, for it is the Lord your God himself who will be fighting for you.’ ²³And I pleaded with the Lord at that time, and I said, ²⁴‘My Lord the Lord, you have begun to show your servant your greatness and your strong hand, so who else is God in heaven or on earth who can do anything comparable to your works and your mighty deeds? ²⁵Please let me cross so that I may see the good land which is across the Jordan, this good mountain, and Lebanon.’ ²⁶But the Lord was angry with me for your sakes, and he did not hear me, and the Lord said to me, ‘It is sufficient for you. Do not speak to me any more about this matter. ²⁷Go up to the summit of Pisgah and lift up your eyes westward and northward and southward and eastward, and see with your eyes, for you will not cross this Jordan. ²⁸And command Joshua and strengthen him, and encourage him, because he will cross in front of this people, and he will cause them to inherit the land which you will see.’ ²⁹Then we stayed in the valley opposite Beth-Peor.