Joshua · Chapter 13

[ edit] Joſue was old and of greet age; and þe Lord ſeyde to hym, Þow haſt eeldid, and art of loong age; and þe mooſt wide loond is left, þat not ȝit is dyuydid bi lot; þat is, al Galile Philiſtiym, and al Geſſury, fro þe trubli flood þat weetiþ Egipt, vnto þe teermys of Accharon aȝens þe norþ; þe loond of Chanaan, þat in fyue litil kyngis of Philiſtiym is dyuydid, Gazeus, and Azotyus, Aſcalonytes, Geþeus, and Accharonytes.

At þe ſouþ forſoþe ben Euees, al þe loond of Chanaan, and fro Mara of Sydonys, vnto Affecha, and þe teermes of Ammorrei, and his niȝ cooſtis; forſoþe þe regioun of Liban aȝens þe eſt, fro Baalgat, vndur þe hil of Hermon, to þe tyme þat þou goo into Emaþ, of alle þat dwelliden in þe hil, fro Liban vnto þe watris of Maſſerephoþ, and al Sydonys; Y am, þat ſhal doon awey hem fro þe face of þe ſones of Yrael; come it þanne in to þe paart of þe herytage of Yrael, as Y haue comaundid to þee.

And nowe diuyde þe loond into poſſeſſioun to nyne lynagis, and to þe half lynage of Manaſſe, wiþ þe which Ruben and Gad weeldiden þe loond, þat Moyſes, þe ſeruaunt of þe Lord, biȝond þe flodis of Jordan took to hem, at þe eſt cooſt; fro Aroer, þat is ſet in þe brenk of þe ſtreeme of Ernon, in þe mydil of þe valey, and al þe wijld feeldis of Medaba, vnto Dibon, and alle þe citees of Seon, þe kyng of Amorreis, þat fauȝt in Eſebon, vnto þe teermes of þe ſones of Amon, and Galaad, and to þe teermys of Geſſuri and Machati, and al þe hil of Hermon, and al Baſan vnto Selecha; al þe kyngdom of Og in Baſan, þat regnede in Aſtaroþ, and in Edraym; and he was of þe relikis of Raphaym; and Moyſes ſmoot hem, and dyde hem awey.

And þe ſones of Yrael wolden not deſtruye Geſſery and Machati; and dwelliden in þe mydil of Yrael vnto þe day þat is nowe. Forſoþe to þe lynage of Leuy he ȝaue no poſſeſſioun, but þe ſacryfices, and þe ſlayn offryngis of þe Lord God of Yrael; þat is his herytage, as he haþ ſpokun to hym.

Þanne Moyſes ȝaf poſſeſſioun to þe linage of þe ſones of Ruben, after her kynredis; and þe teerme of hem was fro Aroer, þat is ſet in þe brenk of þe ſtreeme of Arnon, and in þe mydil valey of þe ſame ſtreeme, al þe pleyn þat lediþ to Medaba, and Eſebon, and alle þe litil towns of hem, þat ben in þe wijld feeldis; forſoþe Dibon, and Baal Bamoþ, and þe burgh toun of Baal Meon, and Geſa, and Sedymoch, and Mephe, and Caryaþaym, and Sabama, and Saraþaphar, in þe hil of þe valey of Beþeroeþ, and Aſſedoch, Phaſcha, and Beþaiſſymoþ; alle þe feeldi citees, and alle þe rewmes of Seon, kyng of Ammorrei, þat regnede in Eſebon, whom Moyſes ſmoot, wiþ his princis, Madian, Euee, and Recten, and Sur, and Hur, and Rebee, dukys of Seon, dwellers of þe loond.

And Balaam, þe ſone of Beor, dyuynour, þe ſones of Yrael ſlewen wiþ ſwerd wiþ oþer ſlayn. And þe teerme of þe ſones of Ruben is maad þe flood of Jordan; þis is þe poſſeſſioun of Rubenytis bi her kynredis of citees and litil touns.

And Moyſes ȝaf to þe lynage of Gad, and to his ſones, bi her kynredis, poſſeſſioun, of þe which þe dyuyſioun is þis; þe teermys of Jaſer, and alle þe citees of Galaad, and half paart of þe loond of þe ſones of Amon, vn to Aroer þat is aȝens Tabba; and fro Eſebon vnto Ramoþ Maſphe, and Beþamyn, and Manayn, vn to þe teermys of Dabir; in þe valey alſo of Beþaran and Beþnenar, and Sochoþ, and Saphan, þat oþer paart of þe kingdom of Seon, kyng of Eſebon; forſoþe of þis eend of Jordan is þe vttermoſt part of þe ſee of Cenereþ biȝond Jordan, at þe eeſt cooſt. Þis is þe poſſeſſyoun of þe ſones of Gad, bi her meynees, citees and towns of hem.

And he ȝaf to þe half lynage of Manaſſe, and to his ſones, after her kynredis, poſſeſſioun, of þe which þis is þe bigynnynge; Ammyneym, and al Baſan, and alle þe kyngdoms of Og, þe kyng of Baſan, and alle þe touns of Jayr, þat ben in Baſan, ſexti burȝ touns; and half part of Galaad, and Aſcharoþ, and Edrai, citees of þe kingdom of Og, kyng of Baſan; to þe ſones of Machir and to þe ſones of Manaſſe, and to þe half paart of þe ſones of Machir, after her kynredis. Þis poſſeſſioun dyuydede Moyſes, in þe wijld feeldis of Moab biȝond Jordan, aȝens Jericho, at þe eſt plage.

Forſoþe to þe lynage of Leuy he ȝaf no poſſeſſioun; for þe Lord God of Yrael he is þe poſſeſſioun of hym, as he haþ ſpokun to hym.