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Do to him as you did to King Sihon of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">3</span>So the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> our God also handed over to us King Og of Bashan and all his people. We struck him down until not a single survivor was left. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">4</span>At that time we captured all his towns; there was no citadel that we did not take from them—sixty towns, the whole region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>All these were fortress towns with high walls, double gates, and bars, besides a great many villages. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>And we utterly destroyed them, as we had done to King Sihon of Heshbon, in each city utterly destroying men, women, and children. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>But all the livestock and the plunder of the towns we kept as spoil for ourselves.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>So at that time we took from the two kings of the Amorites the land beyond the Jordan, from the Wadi Arnon to Mount Hermon </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>(the Sidonians call Hermon Sirion, while the Amorites call it Senir), </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>all the towns of the tableland, the whole of Gilead, and all of Bashan, as far as Salecah and Edrei, towns of Og’s kingdom in Bashan. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>(Now only King Og of Bashan was left of the remnant of the Rephaim. In fact his bed, an iron bed, can still be seen in Rabbah of the Ammonites. By the common cubit it is nine cubits long and four cubits wide.) </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>As for the land that we took possession of at that time, I gave to the Reubenites and Gadites the territory north of Aroer,<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-4988a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote a">a</a>]</span> that is on the edge of the Wadi Arnon, as well as half the hill country of Gilead with its towns, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>and I gave to the half-tribe of Manasseh the rest of Gilead and all of Bashan, Og’s kingdom. (The whole region of Argob: all that portion of Bashan used to be called a land of Rephaim; </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>Jair the Manassite acquired the whole region of Argob as far as the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and he named them—that is, Bashan—after himself, Havvoth-jair,<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-4990b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote b">b</a>]</span> as it is to this day.) </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>To Machir I gave Gilead. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>And to the Reubenites and the Gadites I gave the territory from Gilead as far as the Wadi Arnon, with the middle of the wadi as a boundary, and up to the Jabbok, the wadi being boundary of the Ammonites; </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">17</span>the Arabah also, with the Jordan and its banks, from Chinnereth down to the sea of the Arabah, the Dead Sea,<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-4993c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote c">c</a>]</span> with the lower slopes of Pisgah on the east.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">18</span>At that time, I charged you as follows: “Although the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> your God has given you this land to occupy, all your troops shall cross over armed as the vanguard of your Israelite kin. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">19</span>Only your wives, your children, and your livestock—I know that you have much livestock—shall stay behind in the towns that I have given to you. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">20</span>When the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> gives rest to your kindred, as to you, and they too have occupied the land that the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> your God is giving them beyond the Jordan, then each of you may return to the property that I have given to you.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">21</span>And I charged Joshua as well at that time, saying: “Your own eyes have seen everything that the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> your God has done to these two kings; so the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> will do to all the kingdoms into which you are about to cross. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">22</span>Do not fear them, for it is the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> your God who fights for you.”</span></p> <h3><span id="en" class="text">Moses Views Canaan from Pisgah</span></h3><p><span class="text"><span class="versenum">23</span>At that time, too, I entreated the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, saying: </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">24</span>“O Lord <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">God</span>, you have only begun to show your servant your greatness and your might; what god in heaven or on earth can perform deeds and mighty acts like yours! </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">25</span>Let me cross over to see the good land beyond the Jordan, that good hill country and the Lebanon.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">26</span>But the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> was angry with me on your account and would not heed me. The <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> said to me, “Enough from you! Never speak to me of this matter again! </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">27</span>Go up to the top of Pisgah and look around you to the west, to the north, to the south, and to the east. Look well, for you shall not cross over this Jordan. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">28</span>But charge Joshua, and encourage and strengthen him, because it is he who shall cross over at the head of this people and who shall secure their possession of the land that you will see.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">29</span>So we remained in the valley opposite Beth-peor.</span></p> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Deuteronomy 3:12">Deuteronomy 3:12</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb <i>territory from Aroer</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Deuteronomy 3:14">Deuteronomy 3:14</a> <span class='footnote-text'>That is <i>Settlement of Jair</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Deuteronomy 3:17">Deuteronomy 3:17</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb <i>Salt Sea</i></span></li></ol></div> </div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 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