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Chapter 14 |
| 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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
