Discovery BoxJoshua 13:8 
ContextTribal Lands East of the Jordan
13:8 The other half of Manasseh, 1 Reuben, and Gad received their allotted tribal lands beyond the Jordan, 2 just as Moses, the Lord’s servant, had assigned them.
Joshua 13:12
Context13:12 the whole kingdom of Og in Bashan, who ruled in Ashtaroth and Edrei. (He was one of the few remaining Rephaites.) 3 Moses defeated them and took their lands. 4
1 tn The MT reads “with him,” which is problematic, since the reference would be to the other half of the tribe of Manasseh (not the half mentioned in v. 7).
2 tn Heb “received their inheritance, which Moses had assigned to them beyond the Jordan.”
3 tn Heb “from the remnant of the Rephaites.”
sn The Rephaites were apparently an extremely tall ethnic group. See Deut 2:10-11, 20; 3:11.
4 tn Or “dispossessed them.”
