Division of the Land West of the Jordan

¹These are the inheritances which the children of Israel took in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest, Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers’ houses of the tribes of the children of Israel, distributed to them,

²by the lot of their inheritance, as YHWH commanded by Moses, for the nine tribes, and for the half-tribe.

³For Moses had given the inheritance of the two tribes and the half-tribe beyond the Jordan; but to the Levites he gave no inheritance among them.

⁴For the children of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim. They gave no portion to the Levites in the land, except cities to dwell in, with their pasture lands for their livestock and for their property.

⁵The children of Israel did as YHWH commanded Moses, and they divided the land.

Caleb Receives Hebron as Inheritance

⁶Then the children of Judah came near to Joshua in Gilgal. Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, “You know the thing that YHWH spoke to Moses the man of God concerning me and concerning you in Kadesh Barnea.

⁷I was forty years old when Moses the servant of YHWH sent me from Kadesh Barnea to spy out the land. I brought him word again as it was in my heart.

⁸Nevertheless, my brothers who went up with me made the heart of the people melt; but I wholly followed YHWH my God.

⁹Moses swore on that day, saying, ‘Surely the land where you walked will be an inheritance to you and to your children forever, because you have wholly followed YHWH my God.’

¹⁰“So now look, YHWH has kept me alive, as he spoke, these forty-five years, from the time that YHWH spoke this word to Moses, while Israel walked in the wilderness. Here I am, eighty-five years old today.

¹¹As yet I am as strong today as I was in the day that Moses sent me. As my strength was then, even so is my strength now for war, to go out and to come in.

¹²Now therefore give me this hill country, of which YHWH spoke in that day; for you heard in that day how the Anakim were there, and great and fortified cities. It may be that YHWH will be with me, and I will drive them out, as YHWH said.”

¹³Joshua blessed him; and he gave Hebron to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for an inheritance.

¹⁴Therefore Hebron became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite to this day, because he followed YHWH, the God of Israel wholeheartedly.

¹⁵Now the name of Hebron before was Kiriath Arba, after the greatest man among the Anakim. Then the land had rest from war.