Josh 14
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And these are they of the children of Israel that received their inheritance in the
land of Chanaan, to whom Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the sonof Naue, and the heads
of the families of the tribes of the children of Israel, gave inheritance.
2
They inherited according to their lots, as the Lord commanded by the hand of Joshua
to the nine tribes and the half tribe, on the other side of Jordan.
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But to the Levites he gave no inheritance among them.
4
For the sons of Joseph were two tribes, Manasse and Ephraim; and there was none inheritance
in the land given to the Levites, only cities to dwell in, and their suburbs separated
for the cattle, and their cattle.
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As the Lord commanded Moses, so did the children of Israel; and they divided the land.
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And the children of Juda came to Joshua in Galgal, and Chaleb the son of Jephone the
Kenezite said to him, You know the word that the Lord spoke to Moses the man of God
concerning me and you in Cades Barne.
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For I was forty years old when Moses the servant of God sent me out of Cades Barne
to spy out the land; and I returned him an answer according to his mind.
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My brethren that went up with me turned away the heart of the people, but I Or, according to the Hebrew idiom, «fully followed’
applied my self to follow the Lord my God.
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And Moses swore on that day, saying, The land on which you are gone up, it shall be
your inheritance and your children’s for ever, because you have applied yourself to
follow the Lord our God.
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And now the Lord has kept me alive as he said: this is the forty-fifth year since
the Lord spoke that word to Moses; and Israel journeyed in the wilderness; and now,
behold, I am this day eighty-five years old.
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I am still strong this day, as when the Lord sent me: just so strong am I now to go
out and to come in for war.
12
And now I ask of you this mountain, as the Lord said in that day; for you heard this
word on that day; and now the Enakim are there, cities great and strong: if then the
Lord should be with me, I will utterly destroy them, as the Lord said to me.
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And Joshua blessed him, and gave Chebron to Chaleb the son of Jephone the son of Kenez
for an inheritance.
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Therefore Chebron became the inheritance of Chaleb the son of Jephone the Kenezite
until this day, because he followed the commandment of the Lord God of Israel.
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And the name of Chebron before was the city Argob, it is the Gr. mother-cities metropolis of the Enakim: and the land rested
from war.