The Book of Joshua (WEB)
14: 1These are the inheritances which the children of Israel took in the land of Canaan, which
Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers' houses of the tribes of
the children of Israel, distributed to them, 14:2by the lot of their inheritance, as Yahweh commanded
by Moses, for the nine tribes, and for the half-tribe. 14:3For Moses had given the inheritance of the
two tribes and the half-tribe beyond the Jordan: but to the Levites he gave no inheritance among
them. 14:4For the children of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim: and they gave no
portion to the Levites in the land, save cities to dwell in, with the suburbs of it for their cattle and
for their substance. 14:5As Yahweh commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did; and they
divided the land. 14:6Then the children of Judah drew near to Joshua in Gilgal: and Caleb the son of
Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, You know the thing that Yahweh spoke to Moses the man of
God concerning me and concerning you in Kadesh-barnea. 14:7Forty years old was I when Moses
the servant of Yahweh sent me from Kadesh-barnea to spy out the land; and I brought him word
again as it was in my heart. 14:8Nevertheless my brothers who went up with me made the heart of
the people melt; but I wholly followed Yahweh my God. 14:9Moses swore on that day, saying,
Surely the land whereon your foot has trodden shall be an inheritance to you and to your children
forever, because you have wholly followed Yahweh my God. 14:10Now, behold, Yahweh has kept
me alive, as he spoke, these forty-five years, from the time that Yahweh spoke this word to
Moses, while Israel walked in the wilderness: and now, behold, I am this day eighty-five years
old. 14:11As yet I am as strong this day as I as in the day that Moses sent me: as my strength was
then, even so is my strength now, for war, and to go out and to come in. 14:12Now therefore give me
this hill-country, whereof Yahweh spoke in that day; for you heard in that day how the Anakim
were there, and cities great and fortified: it may be that Yahweh will be with me, and I shall drive
them out, as Yahweh spoke. 14:13Joshua blessed him; and he gave Hebron to Caleb the son of
Jephunneh for an inheritance. 14:14Therefore Hebron became the inheritance of Caleb the son of
Jephunneh the Kenizzite to this day; because that he wholly followed Yahweh, the God of Israel.
14:15Now the name of Hebron before was Kiriath-arba; which Arba was the greatest man among the
Anakim. The land had rest from war.
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