אֶת־בֶּ֧צֶר בַּמִּדְבָּ֛ר בְּאֶ֥רֶץ הַמִּישֹׁ֖ר לָרֻֽאוּבֵנִ֑י וְאֶת־רָאמֹ֤ת בַּגִּלְעָד֙ לַגָּדִ֔י וְאֶת־גּוֹלָ֥ן בַּבָּשָׁ֖ן לַֽמְנַשִּֽׁי׃
A Beser en el desierto, en tierra de la llanura, de los Rubenitas; y á Ramoth en Galaad, de los Gaditas; y á Golán en Basán, de los de Manasés.
Jerusalem Talmud Sheviit
Rebbi Simon ben Laqish went to Bostra; they came to him and said to him: Select for us a man as preacher, judge, scribe, reader; one who will do everything we need77Full job description of a paid practicing rabbi.. He selected a Babylonian and said to him, I have a good place for you. He went to Rebbi Joḥanan who said to him, from Babylonia to Babylonia78You came from Babylonia to be in the Holy Land; do not leave the Land. This ruling contradicts the one given to R. Assi.. Rebbi Jacob bar Abba said, since Rebbi Joḥanan said from Babylonia to Babylonia, that means one who buys there is not obligated. But is it not forbidden to go to Tyre79Since Tyre is North of Akhzib, it is not in the Holy Land. Nevertheless, the rules of the Sabbatical are kept there., and if one buys there is he not obligated? It was found stated: A sign for Ammon, Moab, and the Land of Egypt: There are two regions80Each country contains two regions. It is stated in Mishnah Yadayim4:3 that a “new decree”, enacted after the destruction of the Temple, requires Jewish farmers in these regions to give tithes of the poor. It is stated here that these obligations apply only to those parts of these countries which border on the Holy Land.. From the first one eats and it may be worked81One eats under the rules of the holiness of the Sabbatical; one works (or may not work) the land in the Sabbatical., from the other one eats and it may not be worked. Rebbi Joḥanan wanted to refer to (Deut. 4:43): “Beṣer in the prairie82One of the cities of refuge, in the territory of Reuben. If Bostra is Beṣer then it belonged to the Biblical land of Israel and to the land held by the returnees from Babylonia, and must be obligated for all duties upon the Land. This was R. Joḥanan’s opinion when he told R. Assi (a Cohen) to go there to meet his mother. But then he asked R. Simeon ben Laqish, changed his mind and placed Bostra just outside the borders of the Land. In the Babli (Avodah Zarah 58b), the identification is R. Simeon’s and R. Joḥanan insists that these are different places. (Bostra is in the North, at the Eastern end of the Bashan highlands; Beṣer is in the South, in the low plain near the Dead Sea.)”. He asked Rebbi Simeon ben Laqish: Is Beṣer Bostra?
Makkot
Gemara: Our rabbis taught [in a baraita]: Moses set aside three cities across the Jordan. And opposite them, Joshua set aside [three cities] in the land of Canaan. They were arranged such that they resembled two rows in a vineyard: Hebron in Judah opposite Betzer in the wilderness; Shkhem on the mountain of Efraim opposite Ramot in Gilead; Kedesh on the mountain of Naftali opposite Golan in Bashan. And they divided [the length] into thirds so that they should be thirds: from the south to Hebron was like Hebron to Shkhem; from Hebron to Shkhem was like Shkhem to Kedesh; from Shkhem to Kedesh was like Kedesh to the north.
Makkot
Rabbi Yohanan: "The teacher that is exiled—they exile his yeshiva with him." Is this so?! But Rabbi Yohan said: "From where [do we learn] that the words of Torah are effective at providing refuge? As it is said: 'Betzer in the wilderness...' (Deuteronomy 4:43), (and afterwards it is written) 'And this Torah' (Deuteronomy 4:44)"?! [I.e., why is a teacher being exiled at all? Why don't the words of Torah protect him?].