“1 And these [are the countries] which the children of Israel
inherited in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest, and Joshua
the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the
children of Israel, distributed for inheritance to them. 2 By lot [was]
their inheritance, as the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses, for the
nine tribes, and [for] the half tribe. 3 For Moses had given the
inheritance of two tribes and an half tribe on the other side Jordan:
but unto the Levites he gave none inheritance among them. 4 For the
children of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim: therefore they
gave no part unto the Levites in the land, save cities to dwell [in],
with their suburbs for their cattle and for their substance. 5 As the
LORD commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did, and they divided
the land.”
“6 Then the children of Judah came unto Joshua in Gilgal: and Caleb
the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite said unto him, Thou knowest the thing
that the LORD said unto Moses the man of God concerning me and thee in
Kadeshbarnea. 7 Forty years old [was] I when Moses the servant of the
LORD sent me from Kadeshbarnea to espy out the land; and I brought him
word again as [it was] in mine heart. 8 Nevertheless my brethren that
went up with me made the heart of the people melt: but I wholly followed
the LORD my God. 9 And Moses sware on that day, saying, Surely the land
whereon thy feet have trodden shall be thine inheritance, and thy
children’s for ever, because thou hast wholly followed the LORD my God.
10 And now, behold, the LORD hath kept me alive, as he said, these forty
and five years, even since the LORD spake this word unto Moses, while
[the children of] Israel wandered in the wilderness: and now, lo, I [am]
this day fourscore and five years old. 11 As yet I [am as] strong this
day as [I was] in the day that Moses sent me: as my strength [was] then,
even so [is] my strength now, for war, both to go out, and to come in.
12 Now therefore give me this mountain, whereof the LORD spake in that
day; for thou heardest in that day how the Anakims [were] there, and
[that] the cities [were] great [and] fenced: if so be the LORD [will be]
with me, then I shall be able to drive them out, as the LORD said. 13
And Joshua blessed him, and gave unto Caleb the son of Jephunneh Hebron
for an inheritance. 14 Hebron therefore became the inheritance of Caleb
the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite unto this day, because that he wholly
followed the LORD God of Israel. 15 And the name of Hebron before [was]
Kirjatharba; [which Arba was] a great man among the Anakims. And the
land had rest from war.” (Joshua 14:1-15 AV)
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