15 I gave Gilead to Makir.

16-17 I gave the Reubenites and Gadites the land from Gilead down to the Brook Arnon, whose middle was the boundary, and as far as the Jabbok River, the boundary line of the People of Ammon. The western boundary was the Jordan River in the Arabah all the way from the Kinnereth (the Sea of Galilee) to the Sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea or Dead Sea) at the base of the slopes of Mount Pisgah on the east.

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15 And I gave Gilead to Makir.(A) 16 But to the Reubenites and the Gadites I gave the territory extending from Gilead down to the Arnon Gorge (the middle of the gorge being the border) and out to the Jabbok River,(B) which is the border of the Ammonites. 17 Its western border was the Jordan in the Arabah,(C) from Kinnereth(D) to the Sea of the Arabah(E) (that is, the Dead Sea(F)), below the slopes of Pisgah.

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