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Joshua 14 :: Legacy Standard Bible (LSB)

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The Inheritance Beyond the Jordan

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Now these are the territories which the sons of Israel inherited in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest and Joshua the son of Nun and the heads of the [fn]households of the tribes of the sons of Israel apportioned to them for an inheritance,

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:2 - by the lot of their inheritance, as Yahweh commanded by the hand of Moses, for the nine tribes and the half-tribe.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:3 - For Moses had given the inheritance of the two tribes and the half-tribe beyond the Jordan; but he did not give an inheritance to the Levites among them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:4 - For the sons of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim, and they did not give a portion to the Levites in the land, except cities to live in, with their pasture lands for their livestock and for their property.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:5 - Thus the sons of Israel did just as Yahweh had commanded Moses, and they divided the land.

Caleb’s Inheritance

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Then the sons of Judah drew near to Joshua in Gilgal, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, “You know the word which Yahweh spoke to Moses the man of God concerning [fn]you and me in Kadesh-barnea.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:7 - “I was forty years old when Moses the servant of Yahweh sent me from Kadesh-barnea to spy out the land, and I brought word back to him as it was in my heart.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:8 - “Nevertheless, my brothers who went up with me made the heart of the people [fn]melt with fear; but I followed Yahweh my God fully.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:9 - “So Moses swore on that day, saying, ‘Surely the land on which your foot has trodden will be an inheritance to you and to your children forever because you have followed Yahweh my God fully.’
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:10 - “So now behold, Yahweh has let me live, just as He spoke, these forty-five years, from the time that Yahweh spoke this word to Moses, when Israel walked in the wilderness; so now behold, I am eighty-five years old today.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:11 - “I am still as strong today as I was in the day Moses sent me; as my strength was then, so my strength is now, for war and for going out and coming in.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:12 - “So now, give me this hill country about which Yahweh spoke on that day, for you heard on that day that Anakim were there, with great fortified cities; perhaps Yahweh will be with me, and I will dispossess them as Yahweh has spoken.”
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So Joshua blessed him and gave Hebron to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for an inheritance.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:14 - Therefore, Hebron became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite until this day because he fully followed Yahweh, the God of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:15 - Now the name of Hebron was formerly [fn]Kiriath-arba; for Arba was the greatest man among the Anakim. Then the land was quiet from war.
LSB Footnotes
Lit fathers
Lit me and concerning you
Lit become demoralized
Lit the city of Arba
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