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Joshua blessed him; and he gave Hebron to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for an inheritance.

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Therefore Hebron became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite to this day; because he wholly followed Yahweh, the God of Israel.

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Now the name of Hebron before was Kiriath Arba, after the greatest man among the Anakim. The land had rest from war.

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The lot for the tribe of the children of Judah according to their families was to the border of Edom, even to the wilderness of Zin southward, at the uttermost part of the south.

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Their south border was from the uttermost part of the Salt Sea, from the bay that looks southward;

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and it went out southward of the ascent of Akrabbim, and passed along to Zin, and went up by the south of Kadesh Barnea, and passed along by Hezron, went up to Addar, and turned about to Karka;

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and it passed along to Azmon, went out at the brook of Egypt; and the border ended at the sea. This shall be your south border.

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The east border was the Salt Sea, even to the end of the Jordan. The border of the north quarter was from the bay of the sea at the end of the Jordan.

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The border went up to Beth Hoglah, and passed along by the north of Beth Arabah; and the border went up to the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben.

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The border went up to Debir from the valley of Achor, and so northward, looking toward Gilgal, that is over against the ascent of Adummim, which is on the south side of the river. The border passed along to the waters of En Shemesh, and ended at En Rogel.

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The border went up by the valley of the son of Hinnom to the side of the Jebusite southward (the same is Jerusalem); and the border went up to the top of the mountain that lies before the valley of Hinnom westward, which is at the farthest part of the valley of Rephaim northward.

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The border extended from the top of the mountain to the spring of the waters of Nephtoah, and went out to the cities of Mount Ephron; and the border extended to Baalah (the same is Kiriath Jearim);

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and the border turned about from Baalah westward to Mount Seir, and passed along to the side of Mount Jearim on the north (the same is Chesalon), and went down to Beth Shemesh, and passed along by Timnah;

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and the border went out to the side of Ekron northward; and the border extended to Shikkeron, and passed along to Mount Baalah, and went out at Jabneel; and the goings out of the border were at the sea.

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The west border was to the shore of the great sea. This is the border of the children of Judah according to their families.

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To Caleb the son of Jephunneh he gave a portion among the children of Judah, according to the commandment of Yahweh to Joshua, even Kiriath Arba, named after the father of Anak (the same is Hebron).

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Caleb drove out the three sons of Anak: Sheshai, and Ahiman, and Talmai, the children of Anak.

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He went up against the inhabitants of Debir: now the name of Debir before was Kiriath Sepher.

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Caleb said, “He who strikes Kiriath Sepher, and takes it, to him will I give Achsah my daughter as wife.”

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Othniel the son of Kenaz, the brother of Caleb, took it: and he gave him Achsah his daughter as wife.

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It happened, when she came, that she had him ask her father fore a field. She got off of her donkey, and Caleb said, “What do you want?”

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She said, “Give me a blessing. Because you have set me in the land of the South, give me also springs of water.” He gave her the upper springs and the lower springs.

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This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Judah according to their families.

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The farthest cities of the tribe of the children of Judah toward the border of Edom in the South were Kabzeel, Eder, Jagur,

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Kinah, Dimonah, Adadah,

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Kedesh, Hazor, Ithnan,

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Ziph, Telem, Bealoth,

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Hazor Hadattah, Kerioth Hezron (the same is Hazor),

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Amam, Shema, Moladah,

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Hazar Gaddah, Heshmon, Beth Pelet,

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Hazar Shual, Beersheba, Biziothiah,

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Baalah, Iim, Ezem,

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Eltolad, Chesil, Hormah,

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Ziklag, Madmannah, Sansannah,

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Lebaoth, Shilhim, Ain, and Rimmon. All the cities are twenty-nine, with their villages.

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In the lowland, Eshtaol, Zorah, Ashnah,

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Zanoah, En Gannim, Tappuah, Enam,

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Jarmuth, Adullam, Socoh, Azekah,

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Shaaraim, Adithaim and Gederah (or Gederothaim); fourteen cities with their villages.

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Zenan, Hadashah, Migdal Gad,

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Dilean, Mizpeh, Joktheel,

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Lachish, Bozkath, Eglon,

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Cabbon, Lahmam, Chitlish,

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Gederoth, Beth Dagon, Naamah, and Makkedah; sixteen cities with their villages.

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Libnah, Ether, Ashan,

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Iphtah, Ashnah, Nezib,

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Keilah, Achzib, and Mareshah; nine cities with their villages.

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Ekron, with its towns and its villages;

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from Ekron even to the sea, all that were by the side of Ashdod, with their villages.

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Ashdod, its towns and its villages; Gaza, its towns and its villages; to the brook of Egypt, and the great sea with its coastline.

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In the hill country, Shamir, Jattir, Socoh,

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Dannah, Kiriath Sannah (which is Debir),

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Anab, Eshtemoh, Anim,

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Goshen, Holon, and Giloh; eleven cities with their villages.

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Arab, Dumah, Eshan,

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Janim, Beth Tappuah, Aphekah,

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Humtah, Kiriath Arba (the same is Hebron), and Zior; nine cities with their villages.

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Maon, Carmel, Ziph, Jutah,

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Jezreel, Jokdeam, Zanoah,

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Kain, Gibeah, and Timnah; ten cities with their villages.

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Halhul, Beth Zur, Gedor,

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Maarath, Beth Anoth, and Eltekon; six cities with their villages.

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Kiriath Baal (the same is Kiriath Jearim), and Rabbah; two cities with their villages.

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In the wilderness, Beth Arabah, Middin, Secacah,

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Nibshan, the City of Salt, and En Gedi; six cities with their villages.

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As for the Jebusites, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the children of Judah couldn’t drive them out; but the Jebusites live with the children of Judah at Jerusalem to this day.

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The lot came out for the children of Joseph from the Jordan at Jericho, at the waters of Jericho on the east, even the wilderness, going up from Jericho through the hill country to Bethel.

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It went out from Bethel to Luz, and passed along to the border of the Archites to Ataroth;

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and it went down westward to the border of the Japhletites, to the border of Beth Horon the lower, even to Gezer; and ended at the sea.

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The children of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, took their inheritance.

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This was the border of the children of Ephraim according to their families. The border of their inheritance eastward was Ataroth Addar, to Beth Horon the upper.

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The border went out westward at Michmethath on the north. The border turned about eastward to Taanath Shiloh, and passed along it on the east of Janoah.

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It went down from Janoah to Ataroth, to Naarah, reached to Jericho, and went out at the Jordan.

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From Tappuah the border went along westward to the brook of Kanah; and ended at the sea. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Ephraim according to their families;

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together with the cities which were set apart for the children of Ephraim in the midst of the inheritance of the children of Manasseh, all the cities with their villages.

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They didn’t drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer; but the Canaanites dwell in the midst of Ephraim to this day, and have become servants to do forced labor.

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This was the lot for the tribe of Manasseh, for he was the firstborn of Joseph. As for Machir the firstborn of Manasseh, the father of Gilead, because he was a man of war, therefore he had Gilead and Bashan.

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So this was for the rest of the children of Manasseh according to their families: for the children of Abiezer, for the children of Helek, for the children of Asriel, for the children of Shechem, for the children of Hepher, and for the children of Shemida: these were the male children of Manasseh the son of Joseph according to their families.

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But Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, had no sons, but daughters: and these are the names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.

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They came near before Eleazar the priest, and before Joshua the son of Nun, and before the princes, saying, “Yahweh commanded Moses to give us an inheritance among our brothers.” Therefore according to the commandment of Yahweh he gave them an inheritance among the brothers of their father.

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Ten parts fell to Manasseh, besides the land of Gilead and Bashan, which is beyond the Jordan;

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because the daughters of Manasseh had an inheritance among his sons. The land of Gilead belonged to the rest of the sons of Manasseh.

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The border of Manasseh was from Asher to Michmethath, which is before Shechem. The border went along to the right hand, to the inhabitants of En Tappuah.

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The land of Tappuah belonged to Manasseh; but Tappuah on the border of Manasseh belonged to the children of Ephraim.

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The border went down to the brook of Kanah, southward of the brook. These cities belonged to Ephraim among the cities of Manasseh. The border of Manasseh was on the north side of the brook, and ended at the sea.

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Southward it was Ephraim’s, and northward it was Manasseh’s, and the sea was his border. They reached to Asher on the north, and to Issachar on the east.

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Manasseh had three heights in Issachar, in Asher Beth Shean and its towns, and Ibleam and its towns, and the inhabitants of Dor and its towns, and the inhabitants of Endor and its towns, and the inhabitants of Taanach and its towns, and the inhabitants of Megiddo and its towns.

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Yet the children of Manasseh couldn’t drive out the inhabitants of those cities; but the Canaanites would dwell in that land.

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It happened, when the children of Israel had grown strong, that they put the Canaanites to forced labor, and didn’t utterly drive them out.

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The children of Joseph spoke to Joshua, saying, “Why have you given me just one lot and one part for an inheritance, since I am a great people, because Yahweh has blessed me so far?”

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Joshua said to them, “If you are a great people, go up to the forest, and clear land for yourself there in the land of the Perizzites and of the Rephaim; since the hill country of Ephraim is too narrow for you.”

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The children of Joseph said, “The hill country is not enough for us. All the Canaanites who dwell in the land of the valley have chariots of iron, both those who are in Beth Shean and its towns, and those who are in the valley of Jezreel.”

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Joshua spoke to the house of Joseph, even to Ephraim and to Manasseh, saying, “You are a great people, and have great power. You shall not have one lot only;

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but the hill country shall be yours. Although it is a forest, you shall cut it down, and it’s farthest extent shall be yours; for you shall drive out the Canaanites, though they have chariots of iron, and though they are strong.”

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The whole congregation of the children of Israel assembled themselves together at Shiloh, and set up the Tent of Meeting there. The land was subdued before them.

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Seven tribes remained among the children of Israel, which had not yet divided their inheritance.

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Joshua said to the children of Israel, “How long will you neglect to go in to possess the land, which Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has given you?

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Appoint for yourselves three men from each tribe. I will send them, and they shall arise, walk through the land, and describe it according to their inheritance; and they shall come to me.

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They shall divide it into seven portions. Judah shall live in his borders on the south, and the house of Joseph shall live in their borders on the north.

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You shall survey the land into seven parts, and bring the description here to me; and I will cast lots for you here before Yahweh our God.