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CHAP. XIV.
AND these a 1.1 are the countreys which the children of Israel inherited in the land of Canaan, * 1.2 which Eleazer the Priest b 1.3, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers of the tribes c 1.4 of the children of Israel distributed for inheritance to them.
2 * 1.5 By lot was their inheritance d 1.6, 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 a half tribe, on the other side Jordan: but unto the Levites he gave none inheritance a∣mong them.
4 For the children of Joseph were two tribes e 1.7, Manasseh and Ephraim: therefore they gave no part unto the Levites in the land, save cities to dwell in with their suburbs, for their cattel, and for their substance.
5 * 1.8 As the LORD commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did, and they divided the land f 1.9.
6 ¶ Then g 1.10 the children of Judah came h 1.11 unto Joshua in Gilgal i 1.12: and Caleb the son of Jephun∣neh k 1.13 the Kenezite l 1.14, said unto him, Thou know∣est the thing that the LORD said unto Moses m 1.15 the man of God n 1.16 concerning me and thee in Kadesh∣barnea.
7 Forty years old was I o 1.17, when Moses the ser∣vant of the LORD sent me from Kadesh barnea, to espy out the land, and I brought him word a∣gain, as it was in mine heart. * 1.18
8 Nevertheless * 1.19 my brethren that went up with me, made the heart of the people melt: but I wholly * 1.20 followed the LORD my God q 1.21.
9 And Moses sware on that day, saying, Surely the land whereon thy feet have trodden shall be thine inheritance r 1.22, and thy childrens for ever, because thou hast wholly followed the LORD my God.
10 And now behold, the LORD hath kept me alive, as * 1.23 he said, these forty and five years s 1.24, even since the LORD spake this word unto Moses, while the children of Israel † wandred in the wil∣derness:* 1.25 and now, lo, I am this day fourscore and five years old.
11 * 1.26 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 t 1.27, both to go out, and to come in u 1.28.
12 Now therefore give me this mountain x 1.29, whereof the LORD spake in that day, (for thou heardest y 1.30 in that day, how the * 1.31 Anakims were there, and that the cities were great and fenced) if so be the LORD will be with me z 1.32, then I shall be able to drive them out z 1.33 as the LORD said a 1.34.
13 And Joshua blessed him b 1.35, and gave unto Caleb the son of Jephunneh, Hebron for an inheritance.
14 * 1.36 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 * 1.37 the name of Hebron before was Kir∣jath-arba, which Arba was a great man c 1.38 among the Anakims: and the land had rest from war d 1.39.