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          DASV: Joshua 14    

1 These are the land inheritances that the Israelites received
in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest, Joshua the
son of Nun and the tribal leaders of the Israelites,
assigned to them.
2 Their inheritance was assigned by lot, as the LORD had
commanded by Moses, for the nine and one-half tribes.
3 For Moses had assigned the inheritance to the two-and-a-half
tribes east of the Jordan River, but he gave no inheritance
to the Levites among them.
4 For the descendants of Joseph were reckoned as two tribes,
Manasseh and Ephraim. They gave no portion to the Levites
in the land, except towns with their suburbs to live in,
for their cattle and possessions.
5 Just as the LORD had commanded Moses, so the Israelites
did and they divided the land.

6 Then the descendants of Judah approached Joshua at Gilgal,
and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, the Kenizzite, said to him,
"You know what the LORD told Moses the man of God concerning
you and me at Kadesh-barnea.
7 I was forty years old when Moses the servant of the LORD
sent me out from Kadesh-barnea to spy out the land. I brought
him an honest report just as it was in my heart.
8 Nevertheless my brothers who went up with me made the heart of
the people melt with fear, but I wholeheartedly followed
the LORD my God.
9 Moses promised on that day, saying, 'Surely the land whereon
your foot has stepped will be an inheritance for you and
your descendants forever, because you have wholeheartedly
followed the LORD my God.'
10 Now, look, the LORD has kept me alive, as he promised these
forty five years, from the time that the LORD spoke this
to Moses, while Israel walked in the wilderness. Now, I am
this day eighty-five years old.
11 I am still as strong today as I was in the day Moses sent
me out, my strength now for fighting and going in and out is
as good as my strength was then.
12 Now therefore give me this hill country, that the LORD
promised me on that day. For you heard that day how the
Anakites lived there in large and fortified cities. It may be
that the LORD will be with me, and I will drive them out,
just as the LORD said."
13 So Joshua blessed him. He gave Hebron to Caleb son of
Jephunneh for his inheritance.
14 Therefore Hebron became the inheritance of Caleb the son
of Jephunneh, the Kenizzite, to this day, because he
wholeheartedly followed the LORD, the God of Israel.
15 Formerly the name of Hebron was called Kiriath-arba.
This Arba was the greatest man among the Anakites.
Then the land had rest from war.

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