Joshua 13:15

15 Therefore Moses gave (a) possession to the lineage of the sons of Reuben, by their kindreds;

Joshua 13:15 Meaning and Commentary

Joshua 13:15

And Moses gave unto the tribe of the children of Reuben
[inheritance] according to their families.
] According to the number of them, and sufficient for them.

Joshua 13:15 In-Context

13 And the sons of Israel would not destroy Geshurites, and Maachathites; and they dwelled in the midst of Israel, till into [the] present day. (But the Israelites did not destroy the Geshurites, or the Maachathites; and they live in the midst of the Israelites, unto this present day.)
14 Soothly he gave not (any) possession to the lineage of Levi, but [the] sacrifices, and [the] slain sacrifices of the Lord God of Israel; that is his heritage, as God spake to him (that is their inheritance, as God said to them).
15 Therefore Moses gave (a) possession to the lineage of the sons of Reuben, by their kindreds;
16 and their term was from Aroer, that is in the brink of the strand of Arnon, and in the middle valley of the same strand, (and) all the plain also that leadeth to Medeba, (and their land was from Aroer, that is on the banks of the Arnon River, through the valley from the middle of that river, and all the plain that leadeth to Medeba,)
17 and to Heshbon, and all the towns of them, that be in the field places; and Dibon, and Bamothbaal, and the city of Bethbaalmeon,
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