Deuteronomy 3 · Parashot Devarim–Vaetchanan

Then we turned, and went up the way to Bashan: and ῾Og the king of Bashan came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Edre῾i.

And the Lord said to me, Fear him not: for I will deliver him, and all his people, and his land, into thy hand; and thou shalt do to him as thou didst to Siĥon king of the Emori, who dwelt at Ḥeshbon.

So the Lord our God delivered into our hands ῾Og also, the king of Bashan, and all his people: and we smote him until none was left to him remaining.

And we took all his cities at that time, there was not a city which we took not from them, sixty cities, all the region of Argov, the kingdom of ῾Og in Bashan.

All these cities were fortified with high walls, gates, and bars; besides unwalled towns a great many.

And we devoted them to destruction, as we did to Siĥon king of Ḥeshbon, utterly destroying the men, women, and children, of every city.

But all the cattle, and the spoil of the cities, we took for a prey to ourselves.

And we took at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the Emori the land that was on this side of the Yarden, from the wadi of Arnon to mount Ḥermon;

(which Ḥermon the Żidonim call Siryon; and the Emori call it Senir;)

all the cities of the plain, and all Gil῾ad, and all Bashan, as far as Salkha and Edre῾i, cities of the kingdom of ῾Og in Bashan.

For only ῾Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of the Refa᾽im; behold, his bed is a bed of iron; is it not in Rabba of the children of ῾Ammon? nine cubits is the length of it, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man.

And this land, which we possessed at that time, from ῾Aro῾er, which is by the wadi Arnon, and half mount Gil῾ad, and its cities, I gave to the Re᾽uveni and to the Gadi.

And the rest of Gil῾ad, and all Bashan, being the kingdom of ῾Og, I gave to the half tribe of Menashshe; all the region of Argov, with all Bashan, which was called the land of Refa᾽im.

Ya᾽ir the son of Menashshe took all the country of Argov as far as the border of the Geshuri and the Ma῾akhati; and called them (that is the Bashan) after his name, Ḥavvot-ya᾽ir, to this day.

And I gave Gil῾ad to Makhir.

And to the Re᾽uveni and to the Gadi I gave from Gil῾ad to the wadi Arnon, the middle of the wadi as a border, as far as the torrent of Yabboq, which is the border of the children of ῾Ammon;

the ῾Arava also and the Yarden, as a border, from Kinneret as far as the Sea of the ῾Arava, even the Salt Sea, under the slopes of Pisga eastward.

And I commanded you at that time, saying, The Lord your God has given you this land to possess it: pass over armed before your brethren the children of Yisra᾽el, all that are fit for the war.

But your wives, and your little ones, and your cattle, (for I know that you have much cattle,) shall abide in your cities which I have given you;

until the Lord gives rest to your brethren, as well as to you, and until they also possess the land which the Lord our God has given them beyond the Yarden: and then shall you return every man to his possession, which I have given you.

And I commanded Yehoshua at that time, saying, Thy eyes have seen all that the Lord your God has done to these two kings; so shall the Lord do to all the kingdoms into which thou dost pass.

You shall not fear them: for the Lord your God he shall fight for you.

And I besought the Lord at that time, saying,

O Lord God, thou hast begun to show thy servant thy greatness, and thy mighty hand: for what god is there in heaven or in earth, that can do according to thy works, and according to thy might?

I pray thee, let me go over, and see the good land that is beyond the Yarden, that goodly mountain region and the Levanon.

But the Lord was angry with me for your sakes, and would not hear me: and the Lord said to me, Let it suffice thee; speak no more to me of this matter.

Go up to the top of the Pisga, and lift up thy eyes westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and behold with thy eyes: for thou shalt not go over this Yarden.

But charge Yehoshua, and encourage him, and strengthen him: for he shall go over before this people, and he shall cause them to inherit the land which thou shalt see.

So we abode in the valley over against Bet-pe῾or.