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Summary
Joshua 13:1-7

God commands Joshua to divide the land: the possessions of Ruben, Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh, beyond the Jordan.

13:1. Joshua was old, and far advanced in years, and the Lord said to him: Thou art grown old, and advanced in age, and there is a very large country left, which is not yet divided by lot:

Joshua was old, and far advanced in years. . .He was then about one hundred and one years old.--And there is a very large country left, which is not yet divided by lot. . .Not yet possessed by the children of Israel.

13:2. To wit, all Galilee, Philistia, and all Gessuri.

13:3. From the troubled river, that waters Egypt, unto the border of Accaron northward: the land of Canaan, which is divided among the lords of the Philistines, the Gazites, the Azotians, the Ascalonites, the Gethites, and the Accronites.

13:4. On the south side are the Hevites, all the land of Canaan, and Maara of the Sidonians as far as Apheca, and the borders of the Amorrhite,

'''13:5. and his confines. The country also of Lebanon towards the east from Baalgad under mount Hermon to the entering into Emath.'''

'''13:6. Of all that dwell in the mountains from Lebanon, to the waters of Maserephoth, and all the Sidonians. I am he that will cut them off from before the face of the children of Israel. So let their land come in as a part of the inheritance of Israel, as I have commanded thee.'''

13:7. Now divide the land in possession to the nine tribes, and to the half tribe of Manasseh,