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12 And so we took possession of this land at that time, from Aroer, which is on the edge of the wadi[a] of Arnon, and also half of the hill country of Gilead and its towns I gave to the Reubenites[b] and to the Gadites.[c] 13 And the remainder of Gilead and all of Bashan, the kingdom of Og, I gave to the half-tribe of Manasseh, the whole region of Argo. All of that area of Bashan was called the land of the Rephaim. 14 Jair the descendant[d] of Manasseh acquired the whole region of Argob, up to the boundary of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and he called it,[e] that is Bashan, after his own name, Havvoth Jair, as it still is today.[f]

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 3:12 A valley that is dry most of the year, but contains a stream during the rainy season
  2. Deuteronomy 3:12 Hebrew “Reubenite”
  3. Deuteronomy 3:12 Hebrew “Gadite”
  4. Deuteronomy 3:14 Or “son”
  5. Deuteronomy 3:14 Hebrew “them”
  6. Deuteronomy 3:14 Literally “up to this day”