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Division of the Land West of the Jordan

¹ Now these are the areas the Israelites received as an inheritance^(a) in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar^(b) the priest, Joshua son of Nun and the heads of the tribal clans of Israel^(c) allotted^(d) to them.^{(e) 2} Their inheritances were assigned by lot^(f) to the nine and a half tribes,^(g) as the Lord had commanded through Moses. ³ Moses had granted the two and a half tribes their inheritance east of the Jordan^(h) but had not granted the Levites an inheritance among the rest,^{(i) 4} for Joseph's descendants had become two tribes—Manasseh and Ephraim.^(j) The Levites received no share of the land but only towns to live in, with pasturelands for their flocks and herds.^{(k) 5} So the Israelites divided the land, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.^(l)

Allotment for Caleb

⁶ Now the people of Judah approached Joshua at Gilgal,^(m) and Caleb son of Jephunneh⁽ⁿ⁾ the Kenizzite said to him, "You know what the Lord said to Moses the man of God^(o) at Kadesh Barnea^(p) about you and me.^{(q) 7} I was forty years old when Moses the servant of the Lord sent me from Kadesh Barnea^(r) to explore the land.^(s) And I brought him back a report according to my convictions,^{(t) 8} but my fellow Israelites who went up with me made the hearts of the people melt in fear.^(u) I, however, followed the Lord my God wholeheartedly.^{(v) 9} So on that day Moses swore to me, ‘The land on which your feet have walked will be your inheritance^(w) and that of your children^(x) forever, because you have followed the Lord my God wholeheartedly.'^[a]

¹⁰ "Now then, just as the Lord promised,^(y) he has kept me alive for forty-five years since the time he said this to Moses, while Israel moved^(z) about in the wilderness. So here I am today, eighty-five years old!^{(aa) 11} I am still as strong^(ab) today as the day Moses sent me out; I'm just as vigorous^(ac) to go out to battle now as I was then. ¹² Now give me this hill country that the Lord promised me that day.^(ad) You yourself heard then that the Anakites^(ae) were there and their cities were large and fortified,^(af) but, the Lord helping me, I will drive them out just as he said."

¹³ Then Joshua blessed^(ag) Caleb son of Jephunneh^(ah) and gave him Hebron^(ai) as his inheritance.^{(aj) 14} So Hebron has belonged to Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite ever since, because he followed the Lord, the God of Israel, wholeheartedly.^{(ak) 15} (Hebron used to be called Kiriath Arba^(al) after Arba,^(am) who was the greatest man among the Anakites.)

Then the land had rest^(an) from war.