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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width; initial-scale=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;"/><title>Deuteronomy 3 New American Bible</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/deuteronomy/3.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/deuteronomy/3-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com/catholic">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NABRE</a> > Deuteronomy 3</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../deuteronomy/2.htm" title="Deuteronomy 2">◄</a> Deuteronomy 3 <a href="../deuteronomy/4.htm" title="Deuteronomy 4">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New American Bible Revised Edition</td><td width="1%" valign="top"></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><section id="ch05003" class="chapter"> <h1 id="cn05003" class="cn"></h1> <p class="pf"><span class="hemb">Defeat of Og.</span> <span id="v05003001" class="ver">1</span>Then we turned and proceeded up the road to Bashan. But Og, king of Bashan,<a id="ren05003001-a" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en05003001-a">a</a> came out against us with all his people to give battle at Edrei. <span id="v05003002" class="ver">2</span>The <span class="tetr">Lord</span> said to me, Do not be afraid of him, for I have delivered him into your power with all his people and his land. Do to him as you did to Sihon, king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon. <span id="v05003003" class="ver">3</span>And thus the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, our God, delivered into our power also Og, king of Bashan, with all his people. We defeated him so completely that we left him no survivor. <span id="v05003004" class="ver">4</span>At that time we captured all his cities; there was no town we did not take: sixty cities in all, the whole region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan— <span id="v05003005" class="ver">5</span>all these cities were fortified with high walls and gates and bars—besides a great number of unwalled towns. <span id="v05003006" class="ver">6</span><a id="ren05003006-b" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en05003006-b">b</a> As we had done to Sihon, king of Heshbon, so also here we put all the towns under the ban, men, women and children; <span id="v05003007" class="ver">7</span>but all the livestock and the spoils of each city we took as plunder for ourselves.</p> <p><span id="v05003008" class="ver">8</span>And so at that time we took from the two kings of the Amorites beyond the Jordan the territory from the Wadi Arnon to Mount Hermon <span id="v05003009" class="ver">9</span>(the Sidonians call Hermon Sirion and the Amorites call it Senir), <span id="v05003010" class="ver">10</span>all the towns of the plateau, all of Gilead, and all of Bashan as far as Salecah and Edrei, towns of the kingdom of Og in Bashan. <span id="v05003011" class="ver">11</span>(Og, king of Bashan, was the last remaining survivor of the Rephaim. He had a bed of iron,<a id="rfn05003011-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn05003011-1">*</a> nine regular cubits long and four wide, which is still preserved in Rabbah of the Ammonites.)<a id="ren05003011-c" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en05003011-c">c</a></p> <p class="psec"><span class="hemb">Allotment of the Conquered Lands.</span> <span id="v05003012" class="ver">12</span><a id="ren05003012-d" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en05003012-d">d</a> As for the land we took possession of at that time, I gave Reuben and Gad the territory from Aroer, on the edge of the Wadi Arnon, halfway up into the highlands of Gilead, with its cities. <span id="v05003013" class="ver">13</span>The rest of Gilead and all of Bashan, the kingdom of Og, I gave to the half-tribe of Manasseh. (The whole Argob region, all that part of Bashan, was once called a land of the Rephaim.<a id="ren05003013-e" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en05003013-e">e</a> <span id="v05003014" class="ver">14</span>Jair, a Manassite,<a id="ren05003014-f" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en05003014-f">f</a> took all the region of Argob as far as the border of the Geshurites and Maacathites, and named them—Bashan, that is—after himself, Havvoth-jair, the name it bears today.) <span id="v05003015" class="ver">15</span>To Machir<a id="rfn05003015-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn05003015-1">*</a> I gave Gilead, <span id="v05003016" class="ver">16</span>and to Reuben and Gad the territory from Gilead to the Wadi Arnon—the middle of the wadi being its boundary—and to the Wadi Jabbok, which is the border of the Ammonites, <span id="v05003017" class="ver">17</span>as well as the Arabah with the Jordan and its banks from Chinnereth<a id="rfn05003017-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn05003017-1">*</a> to the Salt Sea of the Arabah, under the slopes of Pisgah on the east.</p> <p><span id="v05003018" class="ver">18</span><a id="ren05003018-g" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en05003018-g">g</a> At that time I charged you: The <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, your God, has given you this land as your possession. But all your troops equipped for battle must cross over in the vanguard of your fellow Israelites. <span id="v05003019" class="ver">19</span>But your wives and children, as well as your livestock, of which I know you have a large number, shall remain behind in the towns I have given you, <span id="v05003020" class="ver">20</span>until the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> has settled your relatives as well, and they too possess the land which the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, your God, will give them on the other side of the Jordan. Then you may all return to the possessions I have given you.</p> <p><span id="v05003021" class="ver">21</span>And I charged Joshua as well, “Your own eyes have seen all that the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, your God, has done to both these kings; so, too, will the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> do to all the kingdoms into which you will cross over. <span id="v05003022" class="ver">22</span>Do not fear them, for it is the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, your God, who will fight for you.”<a id="ren05003022-h" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en05003022-h">h</a></p> <p class="psec"><span class="hemb">Moses Excluded from the Promised Land.</span> <span id="v05003023" class="ver">23</span><a id="ren05003023-i" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en05003023-i">i</a> It was then that I entreated the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, <span id="v05003024" class="ver">24</span>“Lord <span class="tetr">God</span>, you have begun to show to your servant your greatness and your mighty hand. What god in heaven or on earth can perform deeds and powerful acts like yours? <span id="v05003025" class="ver">25</span>Ah, let me cross over and see the good land beyond the Jordan, that fine hill country, and the Lebanon!” <span id="v05003026" class="ver">26</span>But the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> was angry with me on your account<a id="rfn05003026-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn05003026-1">*</a> and would not hear me.<a id="ren05003026-j" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en05003026-j">j</a> The <span class="tetr">Lord</span> said to me, Enough! Speak to me no more of this. <span id="v05003027" class="ver">27</span>Go up to the top of Pisgah and look out to the west, and to the north, and to the south, and to the east. Look well, for you shall not cross this Jordan.<a id="ren05003027-k" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en05003027-k">k</a> <span id="v05003028" class="ver">28</span>Commission Joshua,<a id="ren05003028-l" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en05003028-l">l</a> and encourage and strengthen him, for it is he who will cross at the head of this people and he who will give them possession of the land you are to see.</p> <p><span id="v05003029" class="ver">29</span>So we remained in the valley opposite Beth-peor.</p> </section> <br /><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="intro.htm"><span class="ac">Book Introduction</span></a></h1><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="footnotes.htm"><span class="ac">Footnotes</span></a></h1></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture texts, prefaces, introductions, footnotes and cross references used in this work are taken from the <i>New American Bible, revised edition</i> © 2010, 1991, 1986, 1970 Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Inc., Washington, DC All Rights Reserved. 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