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 Ed're-i.
2 But YHVH said to me, 'Do not fear him; for I have given him and all his people and his land into your hand; and you shall do to him as you did to Sihon the king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon.'
3 So YHVH, our god, gave into our hand Og also, the king of Bashan, and all his people; and we smote him until no survivor was left to him.
4 And we took all his cities at that time--there was not a city which we did not take from them--sixty cities, the whole region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
5 All these were cities fortified with high walls, gates, and bars, besides very many unwalled villages.
6 And we utterly destroyed them, as we did to Sihon the king of Heshbon, destroying every city, men, women, and children.
7 But all the cattle and the spoil of the cities we took as our booty.
8 So we took the land at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, from the valley of the Arnon to Mount Hermon
9 (the Sido'nians call Hermon Si'rion, while the Amorites call it Shenir),
10 all the cities of the tableland and all Gilead and all Bashan, as far as Sal'ecah and Ed're-i, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
11 (For only Og the king of Bashan was left of the remnant of the Reph'aim; behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbah of the Ammonites? Nine cubits was its length, and four cubits its breadth, according to the common cubit.)
12 "When we took possession of this land at that time, I gave to the Reubenites and the Gadites the territory beginning at Aro'er, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and half the hill country of Gilead with its cities;
13 the rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, the kingdom of Og, that is, all the region of Argob, I gave to the half-tribe of Manas'seh. (The whole of that Bashan is called the land of Reph'aim.
These giants that are repeatedly mentioned represent evil. This is the evil of our lower nature. The transfer of the land to Manasseh, which translates as causing forgetfulness, indicates that the evil has been transmuted or forgotten.
14 Ja'ir the Manas'site took all the region of Argob, that is, Bashan, as far as the border of the Gesh'urites and the Ma-ac'athites, and called the villages after his own name, Hav'voth-ja'ir, as it is to this day.)
15 To Machir I gave Gilead,
16 and to the Reubenites and the Gadites I gave the territory from Gilead as far as the valley of the Arnon, with the middle of the valley as a boundary, as far over as the river Jabbok, the boundary of the Ammonites;
17 the Arabah also, with the Jordan as the boundary, from Chin'nereth as far as the sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, under the slopes of Pisgah on the east.
18 "And I commanded you at that time, saying, 'YHVH, your god, has given you this land to possess; all your men of valor shall pass over armed before your brethren the people of Israel.
19 But your wives, your little ones, and your cattle (I know that you have many cattle) shall remain in the cities which I have given you,
20 until YHVH gives rest to your brethren, as to you, and they also occupy the land which YHVH, your god, gives them beyond the Jordan; then you shall return every man to his possession which I have given you.'