Deuteronomy 3

¹Therefore turning we went up by the way of Basan: and Og the king of Basan came forth to meet us with his people to fight in Edrai.

²And our Lord said to me: Fear him not: because he is delivered into thy hand with all his people and his land: and thou shalt do to him as thou hast done to Sehon king of the Amorrheites, that dwelt in Hesebon.

³Therefore the Lord our God delivered into our hands Og also the king of Basan, and all his people: and we struck them to utter destruction,

⁴wasting all his cities at one time. There was not a town that escaped us: sixty cities, all the country of Argob the Kingdom of Og in Basan.

⁵All the cities were fenced with very high walls, and with gates and bars, beside innumerable towns that had no walls.

⁶And we destroyed them, as we had done to Sehon the king of Hesebon, destroying every city, and men and women and children:

⁷but the cattle, and the spoils of the cities we took for our prey.

⁸And we took at that time the land out of the hand of two kings of the Amorrheites, that were beyond Jordan: from the torrent Arnon unto the mountain Hermon.

⁹which the Sidonians call Sarion, and the Amorrheites Sanir:

¹⁰all the cities, that are situated in the plain, and all the Land of Galaad and Basan as far as Selcha, and Edrai, cities of the Kingdom of Og in Basan.

¹¹For only Og the king of Basan remained of the stock of giants. His bed of iron is shewed, which is in Rabbath of the children of Ammon, having nine cubits in length, and four in breadth after the measure of the cubit of a man's hand.

¹²And we possessed the Land at that time from Aroer, which is upon the bank of the torrent Arnon, unto the half part of mount Galaad: and the cities thereof I gave to Ruben and Gad.

¹³And the other part of Galaad, and all Basan of the kingdom of Og, I delivered to the half tribe of Manasses, all the country of Argob: and all Basan is called the Land of giants.

¹⁴Jair the son of Manasses possessed all the country of Argob unto the borders of Gessuri, and Machati. And he called Basan by his own name, Havoth Jair, that is to say, the towns of Jair, until this present day.

¹⁵To Machir also I gave Galaad.

¹⁶And to the tribes of Ruben and Gad I gave of the Land of Galaad as far as the Torrent Arnon, half of the torrent, and the confines unto the torrent Jeboc, which is the border of the children of Ammon:

¹⁷and the plain of the wilderness, and Jordan, and the borders of Cenereth unto the sea of the desert, which is most salt, at the foot of mount Phasga against the east.

¹⁸And I commanded you at that time, saying: The Lord your God giveth you this land for an inheritance, go well appointed before your brethren the children of Israel all you strong men:

¹⁹except your wives, and little ones, and your cattle. For I know you have much cattle, & they must remain in the cities, which I have delivered you,

²⁰until our Lord give rest to your brethren, as he hath given to you: and they also possess the Land, which he will give them beyond Jordan: then shall every man return to his possession, which I have given you.

²¹Josue also at that time I commanded, saying: Thine eyes have seen what the Lord your God hath done to these two kings: so will he do to all the kingdoms, to the which thou shalt pass.

²²Fear them not: for the Lord your God will fight for you.

²³And I prayed our Lord at that time, saying:

²⁴Lord God thou hast begun to shew unto thy servant thy greatness, and most mighty hand. For neither is there other God either in heaven, or in earth, that is able to do thy works, and to be compared to thy strength.

²⁵I will pass over therefore, and will see this excellent Land beyond Jordan, and this goodly mountain, and Libanus.

²⁶And our Lord was angry with me for you, and heard me not, but said to me: It sufficeth thee: speak no more to me of this matter.

²⁷Go up to the top of Phasga, and cast thine eyes round about to the west, and to the north, and the south, and the east, and behold it. For thou shalt not pass this Jordan.

²⁸Command Josue, and encourage and strengthen him: for he shall go before this people, and shall divide unto them the Land, which thou shalt see.

²⁹And we abode in the valley against the temple of Phogor.