Dvarim (Deuteronomy) - Chapter 3

3:1 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 Edrei. 3:2 Mar-Yah said to me, "Do not fear him; for I have delivered him, and all his people, and his land, into your hand; and you shall do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon."

3:3 So Mar-Yah our God delivered into our hand Og also, the king of Bashan, and all his people: and we struck him until none was left to him remaining. 3:4 We took all his cities at that time; there was not a city which we did not take from them; sixty cities, all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan. 3:5 All these were cities fortified with high walls, gates, and bars; besides the unwalled towns a great many. 3:6 We utterly destroyed them, as we did to Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying every inhabited city, with the women and the little ones. 3:7 But all the livestock, and the spoil of the cities, we took for a prey to ourselves. 3:8 We took the land at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Yordan, from the valley of the Arnon to Mount Hermon; 3:9 (which Hermon the Sidonians call Sirion, and the Amorites call it Senir;) 3:10 all the cities of the plain, and all Gilead, and all Bashan, to Salecah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan. 3:11 (For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of the Rephaim; behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbah of the children of Ammon? nine cubits was its length, and four cubits its breadth, after the cubit of a man.) 3:12 This land we took in possession at that time: from Aroer, which is by the valley of the Arnon, and half the hill country of Gilead, and its cities, gave I to the Reubenites and to the Gadites: 3:13 and the rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, the kingdom of Og, gave I to the half-tribe of Manasseh; all the region of Argob, even all Bashan. (The same is called the land of Rephaim. 3:14 Yair the son of Manasseh took all the region of Argob, to the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and called them, even Bashan, after his own name, Havvoth Yair, to this day.) 3:15 I gave Gilead to Machir. 3:16 To the Reubenites and to the Gadites I gave from Gilead even to the valley of the Arnon, the middle of the valley, and the border of it, even to the river Yabbok, which is the border of the children of Ammon; 3:17 the Arabah also, and the Yordan and the border of it, from Chinnereth even to the sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, under the slopes of Pisgah eastward.

3:18 I commanded you at that time, saying, "Mar-Yah your God has given you this land to possess it: you shall pass over armed before your brothers the B'nai Yisrael, all the men of valour. 3:19 But your wives, and your little ones, and your livestock, (I know that you have much livestock), shall abide in your cities which I have given you, 3:20 until Mar-Yah gives rest to your brothers, as to you, and they also possess the land which Mar-Yah your God gives them beyond the Yordan: then you shall return every man to his possession, which I have given you."

3:21 I commanded Yoshua at that time, saying, "Your eyes have seen all that Mar-Yah your God has done to these two kings: so shall Mar-Yah do to all the kingdoms where you go over. 3:22 You shall not fear them; for Mar-Yah your God, he it is who fights for you."

3:23 I begged Mar-Yah at that time, saying, 3:24 "Mar-Yah, you have begun to show your servant your greatness, and your strong hand: for what God is there in heaven or in earth, that can do according to your works, and according to your mighty acts? 3:25 Please let me go over and see the good land that is beyond the Yordan, that goodly mountain, and Lebanon."

3:26 But Mar-Yah was angry with me for your sakes, and did not listen to me; and Mar-Yah said to me, "Let it suffice you; speak no more to me of this matter. 3:27 Go up to the top of Pisgah, and lift up your eyes westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and see with your eyes: for you shall not go over this Yordan. 3:28 But commission Yoshua, and encourage him, and strengthen him; for he shall go over before this people, and he shall cause them to inherit the land which you shall see." 3:29 So we abode in the valley over against Beth Peor.