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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.
02 By lot was their inheritance, as the Lord
commanded by the hand of Moses, for the nine
tribes, and for the half tribe.
03 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.
04 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.
05 As the Lord commanded Moses, so the children
of Israel did, and they divided the land.
06 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.
07 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.
08 Nevertheless my brethren that went up with me
made the heart of the people melt: but I wholly
followed the Lord my God.
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09 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.
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