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Josh.|14:1|-|And these are what the children of Israel received as |a|inheritances in the land of Canaan, which |b|Eleazar the priest and Joshua the son of Nun and the heads of the fathers’ houses of the tribes of the children of Israel gave to them as inheritances,
Josh.|14:2|-|By the |1a|lot of their inheritance, as Jehovah commanded through Moses for the nine tribes and the half-tribe.
Josh.|14:3a|-|For Moses had given the inheritance of the |a|two tribes and the half-tribe across the Jordan;
Josh.|14:3b|-|but to the |b|Levites he did not give an inheritance among them.
Josh.|14:4|-|For the children of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim; and they gave no portion to the Levites in the land, but only |a|cities to dwell in with their pasture lands for their cattle and their substance.
Josh.|14:5|-|As Jehovah had commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did; thus they divided the land.
Josh.|14:6|-|Then the children of Judah approached Joshua in Gilgal; and |a|Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, You know the |b|word that Jehovah spoke to Moses the man of God concerning me and concerning you in Kadesh-barnea.
Josh.|14:7|-|I was forty years old when Moses the servant of Jehovah sent me out from Kadesh-barnea to spy out the land; and I |a|returned such a word to him as was genuinely upon my heart.
Josh.|14:8|-|However my brothers who went up with me made the people’s heart |a|melt, but I fully |b|followed Jehovah my God.
Josh.|14:9|-|And Moses swore on that day, saying, Surely the land on which your foot has |a|trodden will be an inheritance to you and to your children forever, for you have fully followed Jehovah my God.
Josh.|14:10|-|And now, look, Jehovah has kept me alive, as He said, for these forty-five years, since the time Jehovah spoke this word to Moses while Israel walked through the wilderness. And now, look, today I am eighty-five years old.
Josh.|14:11|-|Today I am still as |a|strong as I was on the day Moses sent me out; as my strength was then, so my strength is now, for battle and for going out and coming in.
Josh.|14:12|-|Now therefore give me this hill country, of which Jehovah spoke on that day, for you heard on that day that the |1a|Anakim were there with great fortified cities. It may be that Jehovah will be with me, and I will dispossess them, as Jehovah said.
Josh.|14:13|-|So Joshua blessed him; and he gave |1a|Hebron to Caleb the son of Jephunneh as an inheritance.
Josh.|14:14|-|Therefore Hebron has become the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite to this day because he fully followed Jehovah the God of Israel.
Josh.|14:15|-|And the name of Hebron was formerly Kiriath-arba. (This Arba was the greatest man among the Anakim.) And the land had rest from war.
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