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MOF JOS Chapter 14

14 And these are the properties occupied in Canaan by the Israelites, and assigned to them by lot as their own, by Eleazar the priest and Joshua the son of Nun and the heads of the households in the clans of Israel, 2 as the Eternal had commanded by Moses, for the nine and a half clans. 3 Moses had assigned the other two and a half clans their property and inheritance to the east of the Jordan, and assigned nothing to the Levites. 4 The two clans of the Josephites were Manasseh and Ephraim; the Levites received no share of the land, except some towns to live in, with their pasture-lands for the cattle and substance of the Levites. 5 The Israelites, in dividing up the land, acted according to the orders given by the Eternal to Moses. 6 The Judahites came before Joshua at Gilgal, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, “You know what the Eternal said to Moses the man of God about me and yourself at Kadesh-barnea. 7 1 was forty years old when Moses the servant of the Eternal sent me from Kadesh-barnea to spy out the country, and I reported to him as best I could. 8 My kinsmen and companions made the heart of the people quiver, but I was devoted to the Eternal my God, 9 and Moses swore that day that the land my feet had trodden should belong to me and to my children for all time, because I had been devoted to the Eternal my God. 10 Well now, the Eternal has kept me alive as he promised, all these forty-five years, ever since the Eternal said that word to Moses, all the time of Israel’s wandering in the desert. To-day I am eighty-five, 11 11 and I am as strong today as I was when Moses sent me on that mission; as my strength was then, so my strength is now, for war or any enterprise. 12 Pray, then, let me have this hill-country of which the Eternal spoke that day. As you heard that day, the giants are there with great, fortified towns; but perhaps the Eternal will be with me and I shall evict them, as he promised.” 13 So Joshua blessed him, and gave Hebron to Caleb the son of Jephunneh as his property. 14 Hebron became the property of Caleb the son of Jephunneh, the Kenizzite, and still is in his family—for he was devoted to the Eternal, the God of Israel. 15 Hebron was formerly called Kiriath-arba, or the city of Arba, Arba being the headman among the giants. So the land had rest from war.

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