9 (the Sidonians call aHermon Sirion, and the Amorites call it Senir),
10 aall the cities of the plain, all Gilead, and ball Bashan, as far as Salcah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
11 a“For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of bthe giants. Indeed his bedstead was an iron bedstead. (Is it not in cRabbah of the people of Ammon?) Nine cubits is its length and four cubits its width, according to the standard cubit.
The Land East of the Jordan Divided
12 “And this aland, which we possessed at that time, bfrom Aroer, which is by the River Arnon, and half the mountains of Gilead and cits cities, I gave to the Reubenites and the Gadites.
13 aThe rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, the kingdom of Og, I gave to half the tribe of Manasseh. (All the region of Argob, with all Bashan, was called the land of the1 giants.
14 aJair the son of Manasseh took all the region of Argob, bas far as the border of the Geshurites and the Maachathites, and ccalled Bashan after his own name, Havoth Jair, to this day.)
15 “Also I gave aGilead to Machir.
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