Josh 14
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And these 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,
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by the lot of their inheritance, as YHWH commanded by Moses, for the nine tribes,
and for the half-tribe.
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For 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.
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For 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 its suburbs
for their cattle and for their substance.
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As YHWH commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did; and they divided the land.
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Then the children of Judah drew nigh to Joshua in Gilgal: and Caleb the son of Jephunneh
the Kenizzite said to him, You know the thing that YHWH spoke to Moses the man of
God concerning me and concerning you in Kadesh-barnea.
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Forty years old was I when Moses the servant of YHWH sent me from Kadesh-barnea to
spy out the land; and I brought him word again as it was in my heart.
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Nevertheless my brethren that went up with me made the heart of the people melt; but
I wholly followed YHWH my God.
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And Moses swore on that day, saying, Surely the land whereon your foot has trodden
shall be an inheritance to you and to your children for ever, because you have wholly
followed YHWH my God.
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And now, behold, YHWH has kept me alive, as he spoke, these forty and five years,
from the time that YHWH spoke this word to Moses, while Israel walked in the wilderness:
and now, behold, I am this day fourscore and five years old.
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As 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.
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Now therefore give me this hill-country, whereof YHWH spoke in that day; for you heard
in that day how the Anakim were there, and cities great and fortified: it may be that
YHWH will be with me, and I shall drive them out, as YHWH spoke.
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And Joshua blessed him; and he gave Hebron to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for an inheritance.
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Therefore Hebron became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite
to this day; because that he wholly followed YHWH, the God of Israel.
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Now the name of Hebron beforetime was Kiriath-arba; [which Arba was] the greatest
man among the Anakim. And the land had rest from war.