Joshua:14
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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 .
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By lot was their inheritance ,
as the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses ,
for the nine tribes ,
and for the half tribe .
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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 .
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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 .
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As the LORD commanded Moses ,
so the children of Israel did ,
and they divided the land .
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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 .
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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 .
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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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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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And Joshua blessed him ,
and gave unto Caleb the son of Jephunneh Hebron for an inheritance .
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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 .
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And the name of Hebron before was Kirjatharba ;
which Arba was a great man among the Anakims .
And the land had rest from war .