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Now
when Joshua was old
and advanced in years, the LORD said unto him, Thou art old
and advanced in years, and there remains yet very much land to be possessed.
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This
is the land that yet remains: all the borders of the Philistines and all Geshuri
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from the Nile, which
is before Egypt, even unto the borders of Ekron northward,
which is counted among the Canaanites; five cardinals of the Philistines; the Gazathites and the Ashdothites, the Eshkalonites, the Gittites, and the Ekronites, also the Avites;
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towards the Negev all the land of the Canaanites and Mearah that
is beside those of Sidon unto Aphek to the border of the Amorite;
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and the land of the Giblites and all Lebanon toward the sunrising, from Baalgad at the root of Mount Hermon unto the entering into Hamath.
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All the inhabitants of the mountains from Lebanon unto the hot springs
and all the Sidonians, them will I drive out from before the sons of Israel; only thou shalt divide the country by lot unto the Israelites for an inheritance, as I have commanded thee.
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Now therefore divide this land for an inheritance unto the nine tribes and the half tribe of Manasseh,
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for the other half received their inheritance with the Reubenites and the Gadites, which Moses gave them of the other side of the Jordan eastward, according as Moses the slave of the LORD gave them;
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from Aroer, that
is upon the bank of the river Arnon, and the city that
is in the midst of the river and all the plain of Medeba unto Dibon;