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Now ^(C1)Joshua was old and advanced in years when the LORD said to him, "You are old and advanced in years, and a very large amount of the land remains to be possessed.

"This is the land that remains: all the regions of the Philistines and all those of the ^(C1)Geshurites;

from the Shihor which is ^(F1)east of Egypt, even as far as the border of Ekron to the north (it is counted as Canaanite); the ^(C1)five governors of the Philistines: the Gazite, the Ashdodite, the Ashkelonite, the Gittite, the Ekronite; and the Avvite

^(F1)to the south, all the land of the Canaanite, and Mearah that belongs to the Sidonians, as far as ^(C1)Aphek, to the border of the ^(C2)Amorite;

and the land of the ^(C1)Gebalite, and all of Lebanon, toward the ^(F1)east, ^(C2)from Baal-gad below Mount Hermon as far as ^(F2)Lebo-hamath.

"All the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon as far as ^(C1)Misrephoth-maim, all the Sidonians, I will ^(F1)drive out from the sons of Israel; ^(C2)only allot it to Israel as an inheritance as I have commanded you.

"Now therefore, apportion this land as an inheritance to the nine tribes and the half-tribe of Manasseh."